Director

//dɪˈɹɛktɚ// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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).

    "Francis Gurry is director of WIPO."

  2. 2
    the person who leads a musical group wordnet
  3. 3
    A member of a board of directors.

    "[...] the confusion between directors who know nothing and managers who know everything [...]."

  4. 4
    someone who controls resources and expenditures wordnet
  5. 5
    A counselor, confessor, or spiritual guide.
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  1. 6
    someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show wordnet
  2. 7
    That which directs or orientates something.

    "Installed longer flow director; it now just covers the entire diameter of the 6-in. brine return nozzle, and is 4 in. high […]"

  3. 8
    member of a board of directors wordnet
  4. 9
    A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.
  5. 10
    the person who directs the making of a film wordnet
  6. 11
    The common axis of symmetry of the molecules of a liquid crystal.
  7. 12
    A component of a Yagi–Uda antenna.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French directeur and its source Late Latin dīrēctor, dīrēctōrem, from Latin dīrēctus. By surface analysis, direct + -or.

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