conducting wire vs filament

filament vs conducting wire

conducting wire and filament both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
conducting wire	Yes	No	No	No
filament	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, filament is a hyponym of conducting wire; that is, filament is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than conducting wire:

conducting wire: a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance
filament: a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current

Other hyponyms of conducting wire include booster cable, jumper cable, jumper lead, lead, lead-in, patchcord, telegraph line, telegraph wire, telephone line, telephone wire.

conducting wire (noun)	filament (noun)
a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance	a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current
	a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)
	the stalk of a stamen
	a very slender natural or synthetic fiber

Difference between conducting wire and filament

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