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n. A book containing an alphabetical or classified listing of names, addresses, and other data, such as telephone numbers, of specific persons, groups, or firms.

n. Computer Science A listing of the files contained in a storage device, such as a magnetic disk.

n. Computer Science A description of the various characteristics of a file, such as the layout of the fields in it.

n. A book of rules or directions.

n. A group or body of directors.

adj. Serving to direct.

n. A list of names, addresses etc., of specific classes of people or organizations, often in alphabetical order or in some classification.

n. A structured listing of the names and characteristics of the files on a storage device.

n. A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other directories may be stored. The files and subdirectories in a directory are usually related.

adj. Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.

n. A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship.

n. A book containing the names and residences of the inhabitants of any place, or of classes of them; an address book.

n. A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic.

n. Direction; guide.

Guiding or directing; directive.

n. A guide; a rule to direct; particularly (ecclesiastical), a book of directions for saying the various church offices and for finding the changes in them required by the calendar; especially, in medieval English usage, a book of directions for saying the hours. Also called ordinal, pica, or pie. The directory of the Greek Church is called the typicum.

n. Specifically A book containing an alphabetical list of the inhabitants of a city, town, district, or the like, with their occupation, place of business, and abode.

n. A board of directors; a directorate. Specifically

n. [capitalized] The body constituting the executive in France during a part of the revolutionary epoch, consisting of five members called directors, one of whom retired each year.

n. an alphabetical list of names and addresses

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

"The following functions show both the files & the folders located in a specific directory: scandir () array scandir (string $directory [, int $sorting_order [, resource $context]])"

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enjoining    instructing    directorial    direction    guide    folder   

rectory    trajectory   

folder    database    file    configuration    user    software    setting    format    script    default