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Subdirectory

Definition: Subdirectory

Subdirectory

Noun

1. (computer science) a directory that is listed in another directory.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Subdirectory

DomainDefinition

Computing

A part of a directory named and reserved for particular types of fields. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Subdirectory

Specialty definitions using "subdirectory": File Allocation Table. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Subdirectory" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

German (subdirectory, subdirectoy).

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Usage Frequency: Subdirectory

"Subdirectory" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Subdirectory" is used about 16 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1687,710

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Subdirectory

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

subdirectory

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Subdirectory

Language Translations for "subdirectory"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

underkatalog. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

subdirectory. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

alihakemisto. (various references)

   

French

  

sous-répertoire, sous-directory. (various references)

   

German

  

Unterverzeichnis (subdirectories, subdirectoy). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

υποκατάλογος αρχείων. (various references)

   

Italian

  

subdirectory, sotto-indice, sottodirettorio. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

서브""럭 리. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ubdirectorysay

   

Portuguese

  

subdiretório. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

subdirectorio. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

underbibliotek (subdir, subdirectories), underkatalog (subcatalogue, sub-directory). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Subdirectory

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-i-o-r-r-s-t-u-y"

-1 letter: subdirector.

-3 letters: bourrides, courtiers, courtside, creditors, directors, directory, disturber, obscurity, obtruders, outriders, recordist, reductors, subeditor.

-4 letters: bisector, bistoury, bodysuit, bordures, bourride, broiders, broidery, bruiters, burriest, burritos, citreous, cordites, corsetry, couriers, courters, courtesy, courtier, creditor, cribrous, crudites, crustier, curbside, curdiest, curtsied, deorbits, derisory, director, disrober, doubters, eductors, obscured, obscurer, obtruder, obtrudes, orbiters, outcried, outcries.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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