Crossword clues for directories
directories
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Directory \Di*rect"o*ry\, n.; pl. Directories.
A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book.
A book containing the names and residences of the inhabitants of any place, or of classes of them; an address book; as, a business directory.
[Cf. F. directoire.] A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic.
Direction; guide. [R.]
--Whitlock.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of directory English)
Usage examples of "directories".
Your shell account may give you a different set of directories and files than this (which is only a partial listing).
In the case of a Web server, you want to give read-only access to remote users in any user’s directories of html files.
Nearly all the higher administrative bodies, seventy-five of the department directories,[2] give in their adhesion to Lafayette's letter, or respond by supporting the proclamation, so noble and so moderate, in which the King, recounting the violence done to him, maintains his legal rights with mournful, inflexible gentleness.
While she did so, Ginibegan f through the directories of fashion models.
He asked me to use it as a regular part of my signature, and on my mailbox and letterheads and in directories, and so on.
On your flimsy operating systems, you can create directories (folders) and give them names like Frodo or My Stuff and put them pretty much anywhere you like.
But under Unix the highest level--the root--of the filesystem is always designated with the single character "/" and it always contains the same set of top-level directories: /usr /etc /var /bin /proc /boot /home /root /sbin /dev /lib /tmp and each of these directories typically has its own distinct structure of subdirectories.
This is not the place to try to explain why each of the above directories exists, and what is contained in it.
When I started using Linux I was accustomed to being able to create directories wherever I wanted and to give them whatever names struck my fancy.
Under Unix you are free to do that, of course (you are free to do anything) but as you gain experience with the system you come to understand that the directories listed above were created for the best of reasons and that your life will be much easier if you follow along (within /home, by the way, you have pretty much unlimited freedom).
By cross-checking past city directories with past telephone books, I found one LaDestro and made a note of the address.
The 1959, 1960, and 1961 business directories indicated that Laddie's father, Harold LaDestro, had owned a machine shop on Market and listed his occupation as precision machinist and inventor.
I ran off copies of the phone book listings and pages from the relevant city directories, adding them to the copies I'd made of the yearbook information.
Worse, it's set up some kind of chain reaction that's scrubbing logs, directories, wiping clean operating systems, everything.
Hamburg had no Claus Kretzschmar, but one of the Schleswig-Holstein directories had a Kretzschmar who lived in a place Smiley had never heard of.