Director

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One that supervises, controls, or manages.
  • n. A member of a group of persons chosen to control or govern the affairs of an institution or corporation.
  • n. A person who supervises the creative aspects of a dramatic production or film and instructs the actors and crew.
  • n. The conductor of an orchestra or chorus.
  • n. An electronic device that continually calculates and displays information used for firing weapons at moving targets, such as missiles or aircraft.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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).
  • n. A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.
  • n. The common axis of symmetry of the molecules of a liquid crystal.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent.
  • n. One of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation.
  • n. A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action.
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who directs; one who guides, superintends, governs, or manages.
  • n. Specifically— One of a number of persons, appointed or elected under provision of law, having authority to manage and direct the affairs of a corporation or company. All the directors collectively constitute a board of directors. They are agents of the corporation, and not of the stockholders. Generally they are elected for one year.
  • n. In music, the leader or conductor of a company of vocal or instrumental performers: as, a choir director; an orchestral director.
  • n. Anything that directs or controls.
  • n. Specifically — In surgery, a grooved probe, intended to direct the edge of the knife or scissors in opening sinuses or fistulæ or making incisions generally, In electricity, a metallic instrument on a glass handle connected by a chain with the pole of a battery, and applied to the part of the body to which a shock is to be sent.
  • n. In geometry, a fixed guiding line.
  • n. The small printed or written letter inserted as a guide in the space to be afterward filled by the designer or illuminator of the large initial.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the person who directs the making of a film
  • n. someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
  • n. member of a board of directors
  • n. the person who leads a musical group
  • n. someone who controls resources and expenditures
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    manager    president    secretary    executive    leader    teacher    editor    staff    administrator    representative