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Director
//dɪˈɹɛktɚ// noun
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Noun
- 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 the person who leads a musical group wordnet
- 3 A member of a board of directors.
"[...] the confusion between directors who know nothing and managers who know everything [...]."
- 4 someone who controls resources and expenditures wordnet
- 5 A counselor, confessor, or spiritual guide.
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- 6 someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show wordnet
- 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 […]"
- 8 member of a board of directors wordnet
- 9 A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.
- 10 the person who directs the making of a film wordnet
- 11 The common axis of symmetry of the molecules of a liquid crystal.
- 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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