director
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- directour (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Middle French directeur and its source Late Latin director, directorem, from Latin directus.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈɹɛktə(ɹ)/, /daɪˈɹɛktə(ɹ)/, /daɪ̯əˈɹɛktə(ɹ)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /dɪˈɹɛktɚ/, /daɪˈɹɛktɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)
Noun[edit]
director (plural directors, feminine directress or directrix)
- One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (e.g., director of engineering), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., film director).
- 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America[1], archived from the original on 7 February 2019:
- Francis Gurry is director of WIPO.
Audio (US) (file)
- A member of a board of directors.
- [...] the confusion between directors who know nothing and managers who know everything [...].- Anthony Trollope: Phineas Redux (1873), Chapter 60 ("Two Days before the Trial")
- A counselor, confessor, or spiritual guide.
- That which directs or orientates something.
- 1971, United States. Office of Saline Water, Distillation Digest, volume 3, page 76:
- Installed longer flow director; it now just covers the entire diameter of the 6-in. brine return nozzle, and is 4 in. high […]
- (military) A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.
- (chemistry) The common axis of symmetry of the molecules of a liquid crystal.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
supervisor, manager — See also translations at film director
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device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system
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someone who directs
Anagrams[edit]
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Late Latin directorem, from Latin directus, attested from 1696.[1]
Noun[edit]
director m (plural directors, feminine directora)
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ “director”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
Further reading[edit]
- “director” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “director” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “director” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Portuguese[edit]
Adjective[edit]
director (feminine directora, masculine plural directores, feminine plural directoras)
- Superseded spelling of diretor. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect.)
Noun[edit]
director m (plural directores, feminine directora, feminine plural directoras)
- Superseded spelling of diretor. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect.)
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
director m (plural directori)
Declension[edit]
Declension of director
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) director | directorul | (niște) directori | directorii |
genitive/dative | (unui) director | directorului | (unor) directori | directorilor |
vocative | directorule | directorilor |
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Late Latin directorem, from Latin directus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
director m (plural directores, feminine directora, feminine plural directoras)
- director
- conductor (of musical ensembles)
- (school) principal, headmaster
- editor (a person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish)
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “director”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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