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conduct
Verb
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If you conduct music, you stand in front of the musicians and show them how to sing or play.
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; The way you conduct yourself is the way you act or treat others.
I hope the children will be able to conduct themselve well at the party.
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If something conducts energy, it lets the energy move through or along it.
Glass is a good insulator because it will not conduct electricity.
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If you conduct somebody or a tour, you show people around a place.
Please conduct him to the waiting room.
conduct
Noun
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A person's conduct is the way they act or treat others.
Killing a person, for any reason, is a criminal act and such conduct must not be allowed.
This teacher clearly broke the schools rules for professional conduct.
and
Conjunction
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You use and to talk about two things at once.
I like singing and reading.
Mary and Jane went on a holiday together.
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You use and when you are listing a few things and you are now on your last item of the list.
I like singing, reading, cycling and playing soccer.
I used to like this girl from my class as she is pretty, gentle and caring.
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And is used when you are putting two sentences together.
She came into the store, shouted at the cashier, and left.
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Used to show what happened after something else.
The alarm went off and I woke up.
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And is used to join certain numbers together.
Two hundred and thirty-five people went missing after the earthquake.
oversight
Noun
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An oversight is something that someone does by mistake, without seeing that they are doing it.
He didn't thank me, but I'm sure that was just an oversight.
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Oversight is the action of watching and making sure people do things right.
We have many ordinary workers, and a manager for oversight.
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On Wikipedia, oversight is deleting pages or parts of pages so that not even administrators can see the part that was deleted.
I put my email address on Wikipedia by mistake, but I asked for oversight so that no one would see it.
division
Noun
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Divisions are the parts of something after division.
There are four divisions (or sections) in a classical pas de deux.
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A division is a large military unit (group of soldiers)
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A division is a section of a large company.
This division of GenericTech specializes in the manufacturing of routers.
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When scientists are grouping kinds of animals, a division is a kind of group (Latin divisio) below kingdom and above class.
Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.
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A division is a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
There is a division in the Senate between politicians who support abortions and politicians who do not.
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A division is a piece of music (melody), played with musical instruments, in the 17th and 18th centuries based on another piece.
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A division is a set of pipes in a pipe organ.
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A division is a concept where a common group of debtors (people who owe money) are only responsible for part of the total debt.