Director
[dɪ'rektə;daɪ-] or [də'rɛktɚ]
Definition
(noun.) someone who controls resources and expenditures.
(noun.) someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show.
(noun.) member of a board of directors.
Checker: Raffles--From WordNet
Definition
(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; as, the directors of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company.
(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.
Checker: Mario
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1].Superintendent, manager, BOSS.[2].Guide, counsellor, adviser, instructor, mentor, monitor.
Typist: Vance
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Ruler, controller, manager, master, leader, guide
ANT:Body, company, institution, concern, subordinate, follower
Typist: Osborn
Examples
- Gerald himself, who was responsible for all this industry, was he a good director? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The total is a surprising catalogue of industries for the young Clifton Director. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- As miners they had their being, he had his being as director. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Davy, only twenty, had been offered the position of director, and had accepted. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He is the Chief Director of the railway system of Russia--a sort of railroad king. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This fellow Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the matter. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Newby Chief Executive and Director gbnewby.pglaf. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Sometimes he knew her and Father Mole, her director and companion; oftener he forgot her, as he had done wife, children, love, ambition, vanity. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- My brother, Harry Pinner, is promoter, and joins the board after allotment as managing director. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- These are placed in the hands of a producer, corresponding to a stage-director, generally an actor or theatrical man of experience, with a highly developed dramatic instinct. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There were people who were crying aloud for a reduction of armaments---- (But there the Director of Trench Warfare and Supplies was wrong. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And you girls probably worshipped him, as a convent full of religieuses would worship their director. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It is our French gold, whispered the director. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The managing director of the English railroad owning this line was Forbes, who heard I was coming over, and placed the private saloon at my disposal. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I was then forty-one years of age, while my medical director was gray-haired and probably twelve or more years my senior. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The directors, before finally determining on the system of locomotion to be adopted, offered a premium of ￡500 for the best locomotive engine to run on that line. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- But the directors decided to try a passenger coach, and accordingly Stephenson built one. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It is here that directors' meetings are sometimes held, and also where weighty matters are often discussed by Edison at conference with his closer associates. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As it was, not only Edison, but all the company's directors, officers, and employees, were kept busy exhibiting and explaining the light. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I shall most certainly report this outrageous breach of ethics to the directors of the adjacent zoological garden. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The directors admit so indiscriminately. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The trade of a joint-stock company is always managed by a court of directors. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Galloway, and other men prominent in city life, many of them stock-holders and directors; all interested in doing this educational work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The manufacturer, banker, and captain of industry have practically displaced a hereditary landed gentry as the immediate directors of social affairs. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- So I got the directors to permit me to hire a man to run the station. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In 1829 the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was completed, and the directors offered a prize of ￡500 for the best locomotive. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Rocket, indeed, more than fulfilled all the conditions required by the directors of the railway, who thereupon decided on employing locomotive engines for the traffic on the line. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- One day one of the directors brought in three or four ladies to the works to see the new electric-light system. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The directors of the railway were anxious to secure the best engine possible, and opened a general competition, naming certain conditions the engine must fulfil. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Oh, I'm precious glad I'm not one of the Directors now. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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