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Webster 1913 Edition


Director

Di-rect′or

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
directeur
.]
1.
One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent.
In all affairs thou sole
director
.
Swift.
2.
One of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation;
as, the
directors
of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company
.
What made
directors
cheat in South-Sea year?
Pope.
3.
(Mech.)
A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action.
4.
(Surg.)
A slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath.

Webster 1828 Edition


Director

DIRECTOR

,
Noun.
1.
One who directs; one who superintends, governs or manages; one who prescribes to others, by virtue of authority; an instructor; a counselor.
2.
That which directs; a rule; an ordinance.
3.
One appointed to transact the affairs of a company; as the director of a bank, or of the India Company.
4.
That which directs or controls by influence.
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
5.
In surgery, a grooved probe, intended to direct the edge of the knife or scissors in opening sinuses or fistulae; a guide for and incision-knife.

Definition 2024


director

director

English

Alternative forms

Noun

director (plural directors)

  1. 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).
  2. 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 []
  3. (military) A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.
  4. (chemistry) The common axis of symmetry of the molecules of a liquid crystal.

Derived terms

  • director circle
  • director conic

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Etymology

Borrowing from Late Latin director, directorem, from Latin directus.

Noun

director m (plural directors, feminine directora)

  1. director
  2. conductor
  3. headteacher, principal

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Portuguese

Adjective

director m (feminine singular directora, masculine plural directores, feminine plural directoras, comparable)

  1. Alternative spelling of diretor (superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform, and by the Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect, and as an alternative spelling in Portugal, where the agreement came into effect in May 2009.)

Noun

director m (plural directores, feminine directora, feminine plural directoras)

  1. Alternative spelling of diretor (superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform, and by the Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect, and as an alternative spelling in Portugal, where the agreement came into effect in May 2009.)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from Late Latin director, directorem, from Latin directus.

Noun

director m (plural directores, feminine directora)

  1. director

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