The act or method of controlling or directing. / Skillful guidance or management. / Behaviour; the manner of behaving. / (of a literary work) Plot.

(archaic, transitive) To lead, or guide; to escort. / (transitive) To lead; to direct; to be in charge of (people or tasks) / (transitive, reflexive) To behave.

Either of two New World vultures, Vultur gryphus of the Andes or Gymnogyps californianus, a nearly extinct vulture of the mountains of California.

(psychology) A technique of behavior modification through positive and negative reinforcement and positive and negative punishment.

(anatomy) A smooth prominence on a bone where it forms a joint with another bone.

A set of precepts that one individual tries to observe in daily life. For example, precepts of preserving human life, speaking truthfully, or being nice to people. / The way a person behaves.

(programming) That part of an assembly language used to write macros.

The conditional mood.

A set of rules dictating acceptable behaviour and decisions in a specified environment.

(grammar) A combination of the conditional mood and the perfect tense, roughly corresponding to English 'I would have...'