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Definition: DIRECTORIES |
DIRECTORIESPlural1. Of Directory |
Date "DIRECTORIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1833. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Directory was a government in revolutionary France from 1795 to 1799.
In computing, a directory, catalog, or folder, is a particular area of the file system used for organizing files. The name folder is especially used on some operating systems, such as Mac OS and, increasingly, Microsoft Windows.
Note that the folder metaphor may be misleading with regard to things like file permissions on UNIX: To rename or delete a file you need write permission to the directory that contains the file. This is perfectly understandable if the directory is seen as a list of filenames but not if it is seen as a container (as folder implies).
In graphical user interface (GUI) environments, folders are often depicted with icons which resemble physical file folders such as those of a file cabinet in an office.
If you imagine the computer's file system as a file cabinet, high-level directories may be represented by the drawers, and low-level directories or "sub-directories" may be represented as file folders within the drawers. Operating systems like Microsoft Windows, MS-DOS, and UNIX support practically limitless levels of sub-directories (or folders within folders.)
The word directory is used in computing with a different sense: a central repository of information related to management of a computer or a network of computers. This includes data on users, applications, hosts, network devices, security credentials and more. The directory, as opposed to a database, is heavily optimized for reading, with the assumption that data updates are very rare compared to data reads.
Currently (2003) the prominent directory technology is LDAP, which is descended from the X.500 standard. Microsoft's implementation of LDAP is Active Directory.
The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) is creating standards related to the information stored in such directories, and the protocols and APIs used to access it. The main product of these efforts is a common information model (CIM) for management.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Directory."
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| "800*600" by Peter Hamza Commentary: "Screenshot of the directories with the data of our first book ;)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Health | Information about local groups is available in telephone directories or from the national office. (references) | |
There are a number of directories that list additional medical associations that you may find useful. (references) | ||
Finding More Associations There are a number of directories that list additional medical associations that you may find useful. (references) | ||
Business | Consequently, best sales prospects were and still are products related to electronic mail, voice messaging and electronic directories. (references) | |
The most popular intranet applications include information sharing and publishing, electronic mail, document management, electronic forms, and corporate directories. (references) | ||
Sales leads are also generated through seminars, listing of services in trade directories, direct mail, telemarketing, participation in trade fairs, and through word of mouth. (references) | ||
Economic History | Egypt | A growing number of trade directories and commercial directories (including "Kompass - Egypt") have eased the problem of identifying existing companies. (references) |
Botswana | Updated daily, DOSFAN includes Background Notes; daily press briefings; Country Commercial Guides; directories of key officers of Foreign Service posts; etc. (references) | |
Uk | The leaders in this sector are Denco, AMEC and Planned Maintenance Ltd. The smaller service companies that provide local coverage can be identified from business directories, the Internet, and from listings held by local trade associations. (references) | |
Travel | Taiwan | More detailed information concerning these firms can be obtained by consulting the telephone directory or one of the many privately published business directories available on the island. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DIRECTORIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DIRECTORIES" is used about 347 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 347 | 15,353 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "DIRECTORIES": Location Directories and Signs. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "DIRECTORIES": sub-directories. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
directories.com ksa | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DIRECTORIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 目录 (directory, listing). (various references) | |
French | profil de répertoires par défaut (default directories profile), option Listage des répertoires (list directories function, list directories option), fourniture des annuaires (providing directories), fonction Listage des répertoires (list directories function, list directories option), écran Répertoires téléphoniques (telephone directories panel), écran Profil de répertoires par défaut (default directories profile panel). (various references) | |
German | Verzeichnisse (directorys, lists, schedules). (various references) | |
Italian | schermata per profilo predefinito delle directory (default directories profile panel), schermata numeri telefonici (telephone directories panel), profilo predefinito delle directory (default directories profile), opzione elenco directory (list directories function, list directories option), funzione elenco directory (list directories function, list directories option). (various references) | |
Korean | 전화번호부 (directory). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | irectoriesday.(various references) | |
Swedish | kataloger (catalogs). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"DIRECTORIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: directoire, Direttore. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DIRECTORIES" (pronounced dīre"kterēz, dere"kterēz, dēre"kterēz , or dire"kterēz) |
| 5 | -k t er ē z | factories, refractories, victories. |
| 4 | -t er ē z | arteries, batteries, documentaries, eateries, histories, lotteries, mysteries. |
| 3 | -er ē z | accessories, advisories, anniversaries, armories, bakeries, boundaries, breweries, burglaries, calories, calvaries, canneries, centuries, deliveries, diaries, discoveries, distilleries, draperies, embroideries, fisheries, forgeries, galleries, groceries, hatcheries, hickories, injuries, inquiries, luxuries, machineries, memories, microbreweries, miseries, nurseries, ovaries, penitentiaries, quandaries, recoveries, refineries, reveries, robberies, rosaries, salaries, sceneries, summaries, surgeries, treasuries, vagaries, wineries. |
| 5 | -k t er ē z | factories, refractories, victories. |
| 4 | -t er ē z | arteries, batteries, documentaries, eateries, histories, lotteries, mysteries. |
| 3 | -er ē z | accessories, advisories, anniversaries, armories, bakeries, boundaries, breweries, burglaries, calories, calvaries, canneries, centuries, deliveries, diaries, discoveries, distilleries, draperies, embroideries, fisheries, forgeries, galleries, groceries, hatcheries, hickories, injuries, inquiries, luxuries, machineries, memories, microbreweries, miseries, nurseries, ovaries, penitentiaries, quandaries, recoveries, refineries, reveries, robberies, rosaries, salaries, sceneries, summaries, surgeries, treasuries, vagaries, wineries. |
| 5 | -k t er ē z | factories, refractories, victories. |
| 4 | -t er ē z | arteries, batteries, documentaries, eateries, histories, lotteries, mysteries. |
| 3 | -er ē z | accessories, advisories, anniversaries, armories, bakeries, boundaries, breweries, burglaries, calories, calvaries, canneries, centuries, deliveries, diaries, discoveries, distilleries, draperies, embroideries, fisheries, forgeries, galleries, groceries, hatcheries, hickories, injuries, inquiries, luxuries, machineries, memories, microbreweries, miseries, nurseries, ovaries, penitentiaries, quandaries, recoveries, refineries, reveries, robberies, rosaries, salaries, sceneries, summaries, surgeries, treasuries, vagaries, wineries. |
| 5 | -k t er ē z | factories, refractories, victories. |
| 4 | -t er ē z | arteries, batteries, documentaries, eateries, histories, lotteries, mysteries. |
| 3 | -er ē z | accessories, advisories, anniversaries, armories, bakeries, boundaries, breweries, burglaries, calories, calvaries, canneries, centuries, deliveries, diaries, discoveries, distilleries, draperies, embroideries, fisheries, forgeries, galleries, groceries, hatcheries, hickories, injuries, inquiries, luxuries, machineries, memories, microbreweries, miseries, nurseries, ovaries, penitentiaries, quandaries, recoveries, refineries, reveries, robberies, rosaries, salaries, sceneries, summaries, surgeries, treasuries, vagaries, wineries. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cordierites. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-i-o-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: cordierite, escritoire. | |
-2 letters: creditors, directors, recordist, rectories, redirects, roistered. | |
-3 letters: cordites, corseted, coteries, creditor, decriers, descrier, desertic, destrier, dieretic, dioecies, diorites, directer, director, discreet, discrete, erectors, escorted, esoteric, reciters, redirect, rescored, resorted, restored, secretor, sectored, siderite. | |
-4 letters: cerites, cestode, cestoid, cirrose, cirsoid, coedits, coesite, corders, cordite, corries, coterie, credits, crested, crosier, deceits, decrier, decries. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-i-o-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: redirections. | |
+2 letters: redescription. | |
+3 letters: diastereomeric, redescriptions. | |
+4 letters: micrometeoroids, reconsideration. | |
+5 letters: creditworthiness, diffractometries, radiochemistries, reaccreditations, reconsiderations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Digital Art | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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