conductor vs pole star

conductor

noun
  • One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director. 

  • A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation is conducting. 

  • An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed 

  • A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director. 

  • A person who takes tickets on public transportation and also helps passengers. 

  • Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light, or sound. 

  • A leader. 

pole star

noun
  • A person, principle, or thing which acts as a guide; a guiding light; also, something which attracts much attention; a centre of attention. 

  • The star visible to the naked eye which was in the past, is now, or will be in the future nearest a celestial pole of a planet. 

How often have the words conductor and pole star occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )