English words for 'Alternative form of directorial.'
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adj
noun
- A list of names, addresses etc, of specific classes of people or organizations, often in alphabetical order or in some classification.
- (politics) A form of government with a collegial executive whose members jointly exercise power; the executive of such a government.
- (computing) A structured listing of the names and characteristics of the files on a storage device.
- (computing) 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.
- (computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk)
- an alphabetical list of names and addresses
noun
- 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).
- A member of a board of directors.
- That which directs or orientates something.
- A counselor, confessor, or spiritual guide.
- (electronics) A component of a Yagi–Uda antenna.
- (military) A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.
- (chemistry) The common axis of symmetry of the molecules of a liquid crystal.
- someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
- the person who directs the making of a film
- someone who controls resources and expenditures
- the person who leads a musical group
- member of a board of directors
noun
- (computing, Microsoft Windows) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
- (programming) In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.
- (radio, television) A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
- The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
- The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
- (rail transport) A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
- (electronics) electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.
- (nautical) The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
- A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
- the state of being joined together
- something that joins or connects
- the place where two or more things come together
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- an act of joining or adjoining things
verb
verb
- (figuratively) To direct or lead (a project, etc.); to manage (an organization).
- (transitive) To lay out (stalks of corn, or straw) straight to be used for thatching roofs; to yelm.
- (nautical) To control the helm (noun sense 1) of (a marine vessel); to be in charge of steering (a vessel).
- be at or take the helm of
noun
- (Northern England (Cumberland, Westmorland)) A heavy cloud lying on the brow of a mountain, especially one associated with a storm.
- (nautical) The member of a vessel's crew in charge of steering the vessel; a helmsman or helmswoman.
- (nautical) The use of a helm (sense 1); also, the amount of space through which a helm is turned.
- (countable) A stalk of corn, or (uncountable) stalks of corn collectively (that is, straw), especially when bundled together or laid out straight to be used for thatching roofs.
- (nautical) The tiller (or, in a large ship, the wheel) which is used to steer the rudder of a marine vessel; also, the entire steering apparatus of a vessel.
- One in the position of controlling or directing; a controller, a director, a guide.
- (uncountable) Alternative form of haulm (“the stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching”).
- (heraldry) Synonym of helmet (“the feature above a shield on a coat of arms”).
- Something used to control or steer; also (obsolete), a handle of a tool or weapon; a haft, a helve.
- (Northern England) A shelter for cattle or other farm animals; a hemmel, a shed.
- A position of control or leadership.
- steering mechanism for a vessel; a mechanical device by which a vessel is steered
- (figurative) a position of leadership
noun
- Abbreviation of managing director.
- Initialism of medical doctor (“medical physician; medical surgeon”).
- Initialism of MiniDisc.
- (British, medicine) Medicinae Doctor: Symbol indicating a higher research doctorate in medicine; Doctor of Medicine
- Initialism of doctorate of medicine (“medical degree”) (originally from New Latin medicinae doctor (doctor medicinae).
- (medicine) Abbreviation of medical device.
- (military, US) Initialism of Marine detachment.
- (pathology) Abbreviation of macular degeneration.
- Abbreviation of magnetodynamics.
- a licensed medical practitioner
- a doctor's degree in medicine
adj
name
noun
- (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- (mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- (figurative) The primary source; origin.
- (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- An act of rummaging or searching.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
- A root vegetable.
- (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- (linguistics) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
verb
- To fix firmly; to establish.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
- (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.
- (intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- (equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- cheer for
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- come into existence, originate
- cause to take roots
- take root and begin to grow
- plant by the roots
- dig with the snout
noun
- Initialism of technical director.
- (American football, Canadian football) Abbreviation of touchdown.
- Initialism of thought disorder.
- (neurology) Initialism of tardive dyskinesia.
- Initialism of traveler's diarrhea.
- (Irish politics) Initialism of Teachta Dála, a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower chamber of the Parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
- (machine learning) Initialism of temporal difference.
- (military) Initialism of Territorial Decoration (previously awarded to officers who had more than 12 years commissioned service in the Territorial Army (UK)).
- (travel) Initialism of ticket designator.
- (handbells) Initialism of thumb damp.
- (video games) Initialism of tower defense.
phrase
verb
adj
- Not focused straight at the target or subject; whose true aim appears secondary or obscure.
- Not involving the quickest, shortest, or most convenient path; oblique.
- Figuratively
- (mathematics, logic, of a proof) Employing argument by contradiction; making use the law of the excluded middle; arguing via the contrapositive.
- Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result.
- Not direct:
- extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action
- not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination
- having intervening factors or persons or influences
- descended from a common ancestor but through different lines
- not as a direct effect or consequence
noun
noun
noun
- 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).
- A member of a board of directors.
- That which directs or orientates something.
- A counselor, confessor, or spiritual guide.
- (electronics) A component of a Yagi–Uda antenna.
- (military) A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.
- (chemistry) The common axis of symmetry of the molecules of a liquid crystal.
- someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
- the person who directs the making of a film
- someone who controls resources and expenditures
- the person who leads a musical group
- member of a board of directors
noun
- (computing, Microsoft Windows) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
- (programming) In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.
- (radio, television) A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
- The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
- The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
- (rail transport) A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
- (electronics) electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.
- (nautical) The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
- A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
- the state of being joined together
- something that joins or connects
- the place where two or more things come together
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- an act of joining or adjoining things
verb
noun
- Abbreviation of managing director.
- Initialism of medical doctor (“medical physician; medical surgeon”).
- Initialism of MiniDisc.
- (British, medicine) Medicinae Doctor: Symbol indicating a higher research doctorate in medicine; Doctor of Medicine
- Initialism of doctorate of medicine (“medical degree”) (originally from New Latin medicinae doctor (doctor medicinae).
- (medicine) Abbreviation of medical device.
- (military, US) Initialism of Marine detachment.
- (pathology) Abbreviation of macular degeneration.
- Abbreviation of magnetodynamics.
- a licensed medical practitioner
- a doctor's degree in medicine
adj
name
noun
- (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- (mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- (figurative) The primary source; origin.
- (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- An act of rummaging or searching.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
- A root vegetable.
- (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- (linguistics) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
verb
- To fix firmly; to establish.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
- (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.
- (intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- (equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- cheer for
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- come into existence, originate
- cause to take roots
- take root and begin to grow
- plant by the roots
- dig with the snout
noun
- Initialism of technical director.
- (American football, Canadian football) Abbreviation of touchdown.
- Initialism of thought disorder.
- (neurology) Initialism of tardive dyskinesia.
- Initialism of traveler's diarrhea.
- (Irish politics) Initialism of Teachta Dála, a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower chamber of the Parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
- (machine learning) Initialism of temporal difference.
- (military) Initialism of Territorial Decoration (previously awarded to officers who had more than 12 years commissioned service in the Territorial Army (UK)).
- (travel) Initialism of ticket designator.
- (handbells) Initialism of thumb damp.
- (video games) Initialism of tower defense.
phrase
noun
verb
- (figuratively) To direct or lead (a project, etc.); to manage (an organization).
- (transitive) To lay out (stalks of corn, or straw) straight to be used for thatching roofs; to yelm.
- (nautical) To control the helm (noun sense 1) of (a marine vessel); to be in charge of steering (a vessel).
- be at or take the helm of
noun
- (Northern England (Cumberland, Westmorland)) A heavy cloud lying on the brow of a mountain, especially one associated with a storm.
- (nautical) The member of a vessel's crew in charge of steering the vessel; a helmsman or helmswoman.
- (nautical) The use of a helm (sense 1); also, the amount of space through which a helm is turned.
- (countable) A stalk of corn, or (uncountable) stalks of corn collectively (that is, straw), especially when bundled together or laid out straight to be used for thatching roofs.
- (nautical) The tiller (or, in a large ship, the wheel) which is used to steer the rudder of a marine vessel; also, the entire steering apparatus of a vessel.
- One in the position of controlling or directing; a controller, a director, a guide.
- (uncountable) Alternative form of haulm (“the stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching”).
- (heraldry) Synonym of helmet (“the feature above a shield on a coat of arms”).
- Something used to control or steer; also (obsolete), a handle of a tool or weapon; a haft, a helve.
- (Northern England) A shelter for cattle or other farm animals; a hemmel, a shed.
- A position of control or leadership.
- steering mechanism for a vessel; a mechanical device by which a vessel is steered
- (figurative) a position of leadership
verb
adj
- Not focused straight at the target or subject; whose true aim appears secondary or obscure.
- Not involving the quickest, shortest, or most convenient path; oblique.
- Figuratively
- (mathematics, logic, of a proof) Employing argument by contradiction; making use the law of the excluded middle; arguing via the contrapositive.
- Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result.
- Not direct:
- extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action
- not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination
- having intervening factors or persons or influences
- descended from a common ancestor but through different lines
- not as a direct effect or consequence
noun
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adj
noun
- A list of names, addresses etc, of specific classes of people or organizations, often in alphabetical order or in some classification.
- (politics) A form of government with a collegial executive whose members jointly exercise power; the executive of such a government.
- (computing) A structured listing of the names and characteristics of the files on a storage device.
- (computing) 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.
- (computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk)
- an alphabetical list of names and addresses