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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
directory
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
directory enquiries
telephone directory
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
current
▪ If the program file is in the current directory, only the file name needs to be given.
▪ If the program is not in the current directory, its full device, path and file name must be specified.
▪ For example, one of the most useful is to include not only the drive letter, but the current directory.
▪ All these files are listed for cursor selection if the file is in the current directory.
▪ If this field is left blank, the Destination Account will default to the current directory.
local
▪ They have many local branches, so you can check in your local telephone directory whether there is one near you.
▪ Their addresses are listed in local telephone directories.
▪ Adult Education Centres See local telephone directory under your local council listing.
new
▪ These allow the user to delete and rename files or make a backup copy. New directories can also be created.
▪ Click the extract button, and the originals will be extracted from the compressed file and placed in the new directory.
▪ He had also promised that he would not obtain Polly's new ex-directory telephone number.
▪ Then I clicked on another link, which created a new directory called HaHaHa on my hard disk.
▪ There's a new directory there now.
▪ A third link deleted the new directory.
▪ Creating and Moving Storage Directories New storage directories may be created at any time.
specified
▪ If specified, the directory must exist and the user must have at least read and write access to it.
■ NOUN
default
▪ You can however change the names of the default directories if you wish.
▪ By and large, individual programs allow you to set a default directory where files are always saved.
▪ Please check your protections on the Authorisation file and your default directory.
▪ Please check the protection on your default directory and that you have sufficient disk quota.
▪ Please check your protection on the Authorisation file and your default directory and ensure that you have sufficient disk quota.
enquiry
▪ Only when she checked with directory enquiries did she learn that the receiver was off the hook.
▪ Pascoe had obtained the number from directory enquiries and listened to her answerphone message a dozen times or more.
▪ She hunted down the telephone number through directory enquiries and then rang.
▪ First he rang directory enquiries and then the operator.
▪ Perhaps she should get his number from directory enquiries.
name
▪ If this isn't the case then change C and the directory name as appropriate.
▪ They must not, however, contain disk or directory names.
▪ Changing the directory names of the Process and/or Working Directories is very similar.
▪ Please supply a valid directory name.
phone
▪ There were, after all, only two in the London phone directory.
▪ They never show up on the formal organization chart and seldom in the corporate phone directory.
▪ I went through to Shelley's office for the Bradford phone directory and looked it up.
root
▪ The SHELL.BAT file should now be in your root directory.
service
▪ The View menu is key to getting what you want from directory services.
▪ It has no central directory service for locating information or people.
▪ Netscape is not the first company to provide some form of directory services.
structure
▪ It will provide a map of your directory structure but won't transport you to a chosen sub-directory.
▪ It also moves them, searches for them and copies directory structures from one drive to another.
telephone
▪ Diana and Carolyn would regularly while away a quiet evening ringing people with silly names who appeared in the telephone directory.
▪ It was as if some one had suddenly placed several telephone directories on my chest.
▪ I have often suspected that by raking through the telephone directory according to a number code, you could extract a secret message.
▪ It also publishes seven community telephone directories and two magazines, concentrated in Howard and Carroll counties.
▪ For the address of your tax office, see Inland Revenue in the telephone directory.
▪ Woodward sat down in a hard chair by his phone and checked the telephone directory.
▪ The other method for collecting facts about potential purchasers is through published lists - like the telephone directory or the electoral register.
▪ The route is promoted in publications ranging from telephone directories to restaurant placemats, but the information is often confusing and inaccurate.
trade
▪ Still, I've been through the trade directory and come up with something a bit more hopeful.
▪ A reliable trade directory such as Kompass or Dunn and Bradstreet can prove useful in identifying potential industrial buyers.
▪ They will include government reports, travellers' descriptions and antiquarian books, trade directories, old newspapers, early school textbooks.
■ VERB
check
▪ Only when she checked with directory enquiries did she learn that the receiver was off the hook.
▪ Woodward sat down in a hard chair by his phone and checked the telephone directory.
▪ Jasper had given me a number, and it had checked out with directory assistance.
create
▪ Then I clicked on another link, which created a new directory called HaHaHa on my hard disk.
list
▪ Their addresses are listed in local telephone directories.
▪ Her home number was not listed in the directory so it had to be the stage door.
▪ He wondered why it was not even listed in the telephone directory.
▪ For example, in InteWord you can list the directory of files available from the Storage sub-menu while you can not in InteCalc.
provide
▪ Netscape is not the first company to provide some form of directory services.
publish
▪ The National Cancer Alliance publishes a directory of cancer specialists.
▪ It also publishes seven community telephone directories and two magazines, concentrated in Howard and Carroll counties.
▪ It publishes a free directory of stockbrokers in Britain and what theyoffer.
▪ They have regular regional meetings and publish a directory of members.
use
▪ One study of 2,072 customers showed 96% using the directory.
▪ There is now more than one charge code using the same storage directory.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a directory of city tours
▪ Sam's number should be listed in the telephone directory.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His name was the first to come to her mind and his telephone number was in the directory.
▪ If specified, the directory must exist and the user must have at least read and write access to it.
▪ If the program is not in the current directory, its full device, path and file name must be specified.
▪ In a perfect world, there would be a single universal e-mail directory.
▪ She added that all rooms contained details about the charges in an information directory.
▪ The Explorer view is one of two ways in which you can look at directories and files via the My Computer icon.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Directory

Directory \Di*rect"o*ry\, n.; pl. Directories.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. [Cf. F. directoire.] A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic.

  4. Direction; guide. [R.]
    --Whitlock.

Directory

Directory \Di*rect"o*ry\, a. [L. directorius.] Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
directory

1540s, "guide, book of rules," from Medieval Latin directorium, noun use of neuter of Latin directorius, from directus (see direct (v.)). Meaning "alphabetical listing of inhabitants of a region" is from 1732; listing of telephone numbers is from 1908. As an adjective, from mid-15c.

Wiktionary
directory

a. Containing directions; instructing; directorial. n. 1 A list of names, addresses etc, of specific classes of people or organizations, often in alphabetical order or in some classification. 2 (context computing English) A structured listing of the names and characteristics of the files on a storage device. 3 (context computing English) A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other directories may be stored. The files and subdirectory in a directory are usually related.

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WordNet
directory

  1. n. an alphabetical list of names and addresses

  2. (computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk)

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Wikipedia
Directory

Directory may refer to:

  • Directory (computing), or folder, a file system structure in which to store computer files
  • Directory (OpenVMS command)
  • Directory service, a software application for organizing information about a computer network's users and resources
  • Directory (political), a small group of influential states that is said to 'direct' the agenda
    • French Directory, the government in revolutionary France from 1795 to 1799
  • Business directory, a listing of information about suppliers and manufacturers
  • Telephone directory, a book which allows telephone numbers to be found given the subscriber's name
  • Web directory, an organized collection of links to websites
Directory (OpenVMS command)

In computer software, specifically the command line interface of the OpenVMS operating system, the DIRECTORY command (often abbreviated as DIR) is used to list the files inside a directory. It is analogous to the DOS dir and Unix ls commands.

Directory (computing)

In computing, a directory is a file system cataloging structure which contains references to other computer files, and possibly other directories. On many computers, directories are known as folders, catalogs (catalog was used on the Apple II, the Commodore 128 and some other early home computers as a command for displaying disk contents; the filesystems used by these did not support hierarchal directories), or drawers to provide some relevancy to a workbench or the traditional office file cabinet.

Files are organized by storing related files in the same directory. In a hierarchical filesystem (that is, one in which files and directories are organized in a manner that resembles a tree), a directory contained inside another directory is called a subdirectory. The terms parent and child are often used to describe the relationship between a subdirectory and the directory in which it is cataloged, the latter being the parent. The top-most directory in such a filesystem, which does not have a parent of its own, is called the root directory.

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Usage examples of "directory".

This denial, however, aroused an indignant riposte from the president of the court, reminding Babeuf of his letter to the Directory boasting that he was the leader of the Conspiracy.

John Bonano, a telephone company executive, of his brief experience as an operator providing directory assistance.

First Consul to intimate to foreign powers, while at the same time he assured himself against the return of the Bourbons, that the system which he proposed to adopt was a system of order and regeneration, unlike either the demagogic violence of the Convention or the imbecile artifice of the Directory.

I was then ignorant that my erasure from the emigrant list had been ordered on the 11th of November, as the decree did not reach the commissary of the Executive Directory at Auxerre until the 17th of November, the day of our departure from Milan.

Panim from a galactic directory Ferdie the Frug had nearly torn his head off.

The building directory told me Ironworkers Local 165 was located on the second floor.

For all Judd knew, she could have got his name out of the telephone directory.

If someone took the trouble to check, he would find an Immanuel Bridges listed in the Manhattan telephone directory on Broadway and Eighty-Second Street.

Using the directory in the optophone, he located the type of store he needed.

Matching the home number against the Vaughans listed in the directory gave him the address, which from the map that Picador had bought at the airport, was located in what looked like a residential area about three miles away.

The ruling Directory was opposed on one side by the remnants of sans-culotte radicalism now led by the Equals, and on the other by those wishing to restore the old regime.

The Directory had no share in renewing the project of this memorable expedition, the result of which did not correspond with the grand views in which it had been conceived.

Great numbers of foreigners and people from the provinces visited the capital, and the return of luxury and the revival of old customs gave occupation to a variety of tradespeople who could get no employment under the Directory or Consulate, such as saddlers, carriage-makers, lacemen, embroiderers, and others.

Fletch cruised slowly down Vizzard Road The telephone directory had said the number was 12355.

Directory-- Accounts of the Egyptian expedition published in the Moniteur-- Proclamation to the army of the East--Favour and disgrace of certain individuals accounted for.