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单词 directory
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directoryn.

/dɪˈrɛktəri/
Etymology: < medieval or modern Latin dīrectōrium, substantive use of neuter of dīrectōrius : see directory adj. and -ory suffix1. Compare French directoire, 15th cent. in Godefroy Suppl., Italian direttorio a directorie (Florio).
1. Something that serves to direct; a guide; esp. a book of rules or directions.
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society > communication > book > kind of book > textbook or book of instructions > [noun]
handbookOE
doctrinalc1450
directory1543
school1545
instruction book1546
companion1621
body1647
tutor1665
self-instructor1700
tutorer1702
preceptorc1710
textbook1779
self-instructer1800
bench book1887
user guide1936
user manual1936
text1955
1543 J. Bale Yet Course at Romyshe Foxe (title page) An alphabetycall dyrectorye or Table also in the ende therof.
c1550 (title) The Directory of Conscience, a profytable Treatyse to such that be tymorous..in Conscyence.
1621 J. Molle tr. P. Camerarius Liuing Libr. iv. xx. 312 Sometimes a light occasion serueth as a directorie for the execution of most weighty things.
1675 H. Teonge Diary (1825) 7 Wee..hast toward the Downes; looking for our dyrectory, the Foreland light.
1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 76 At a time when God had not given any express Directory for the Manners of Men.
1775 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 184 The compilers of those popular directories.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 454 The Rhodian law was the directory of the Romans in maritime affairs.
1878 J. P. Hopps Princ. Relig. vii. 24 We might have preferred a written directory, or a visible teacher.
2. Ecclesiastical. A book containing directions for the order of public or private worship; spec.
a. The set of rules for public worship compiled in 1644 by the Westminster Assembly, ratified by Parliament and adopted by the Scottish General Assembly in 1645.
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society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > service book (general) > [noun] > containing directions for worship
prayer book?1529
service book1553
directory1640
1640 A. Henderson in C. G. M'Crie Public Worship Presbyterian Scotl. (1892) 194 [Expressing the wish that there were] one Directory for all the parts of the public worship of God.
1642 J. Milton Apol. against Pamphlet 46 Perhaps there may be usefully set forth by the Church a common directory of publick prayer.
1645 (title) The Directory for the Publick Worship of God; agreed upon by the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, with the assistance of Commissioners from the Church of Scotland.
1736 D. Neal Hist. Puritans III. 157 The Parliament..imposed a fine upon those ministers that should read any other form than that contained in the Directory.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. x. 24 The English commissioners..demanded the complete establishment of a presbyterian polity, and the substitution of what was called the directory for the Anglican liturgy.
1892 C. G. McCrie Public Worship Presbyterian Scotl. 194 The word Directory exactly describes the nature and contents of a Presbyterian as distinguished from a liturgical Service-book.
figurative.1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 253 When Butchers were the onely Clerks, Elders and Presbyters of Kirks, Whose Directorie was to kill; And some believe it is so still.
b. Roman Catholic Church A manual containing directions for the repetition of the daily offices; an ordinal.
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society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > service book (general) > [noun] > containing directions for worship > Roman Catholic
ordinala1325
consuetudinarya1513
ordinarya1513
directory1759
ordo1849
1759 (title) The Laity's Directory (Cath. Dict.).
1837 (title) The Catholic Directory (Cath. Dict.).
1867 (title) Catholic directory and ordo for Ireland.
1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 265/2 The Catholic Directory..familiar to English Catholics..contains besides the Ordo a list of Clergy, Churches, etc.
3.
a. A book containing one or more alphabetical lists of the inhabitants of any locality, with their addresses and occupations; also a similar compilation dealing with the members of a particular profession, trade, or association, as a Clerical or Medical Directory, etc.
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society > communication > record > list > [noun] > list of names or people > alphabetical
directory1732
1732 J. Brown (title) The Directory, or List of Principal Traders in London.
1778 (title) Whitehead's Newcastle Directory, for 1778.
1838 T. Gray Lett. (1893) 71 Returning to the hotel I consulted the city directory.
1888 A. K. Green Behind Closed Doors vi. 79 Gryce..searched for an address in the directory.
b. = telephone directory n. at telephone n. Compounds 3); frequently attributive, as directory enquiries n. the section of the telephone-exchange which supplies callers with information about telephone numbers, etc.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > telephone directory
telephone directory1879
telephone book1883
book1885
directory1908
phone book1921
1908 Daily Chron. 21 Sept. 4/6 Daily reports of all new and changed names for the Directory are forwarded to this department.
1908 Daily Chron. 21 Sept. 4/6 The latest Directory information.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 665 Vulcanite automatic telephone receiver with adjacent directory.
1946 ‘S. Russell’ To Bed with Grand Music v. 68 She hunted through telephone directories, questioned directory-enquiries.
1966 ‘S. Woods’ Enter Certain Murderers ix. 157 Will you do something for me..? Get on to Directory Inquiries.
4. Direction, ordering, control. Obsolete. rare.
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society > authority > control > [noun] > direction
demeaning1429
stightlinga1500
direction1509
directing1530
amaining1553
government1556
demeanour1644
directory1647
directurea1677
bossing1864
masterminding1924
quarterbacking1938
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 90 This manner of triall..and that of Ordeale [were] under the directory of the Clergy.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 130 Present as assistants in directory of judgement.
5. Surgery. = director n. 3c. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > guiding or directing instruments
director1667
directory1693
staff1699
obturator1862
1693 Dr. Mullineux in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 822 By help of a Directory and Forceps..he brought away the Stone.
1754 W. Smellie Treat. Midwifery II. ii. 18 This opening was enlarged upon a directory.
6. French History. [translating French Directoire.] The executive body in France during part of the revolutionary period (October 1795–November 1799), consisting of five members called directors (directeurs).
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [noun] > specifically in France
States General1575
national assembly1790
National Convention1792
National Convention1792
Directoire1795
directory1796
tribunate1802
1795 Amer. State Papers, For. Relat. (Stanf.) (1832) I. 378 It is probable that this act of the minister proceeds from himself, and not from the directoire.]
1796 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1892) XIII. 273 I little expected..that a private letter of mine..would have found a place in the bureau of the French Directory.
1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France i. 131 It is said by the Directory..that we of the people are tumultuous for peace.
1796 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 397 Shall you and I find fault with the proceedings of France, and be totally indifferent to the proceedings of directories at home?
1810 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 143 This does, in fact, transform the executive into a directory.
1867 G. F. Chambers Descr. Astron. i. v. 58 General Buonaparte..when the Directory was about to give him a fête, was very much surprised.
7. A body of directors; = directorate n. b.
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society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > director > body of
direction1710
directory1803
directorate1887
1803 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 1 407 Within the proprietary, we had almost said within the directory of the company, persons are now found [etc.].
1883 Harper's Mag. July 926/2 The principal working members of the directory.

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c. Computing.
(a) Any list of the locations of data items, files, subdirectories, sets of instructions, etc., usually also containing other information such as the name and size of each file and the date of its most recent update; spec. a displayed version of such a list.
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society > computing and information technology > data > [noun] > file > organization > directory or sub-directory
directory1962
file directory1968
subdirectory1971
society > computing and information technology > data > database > [noun] > unit of data > means of locating
directory1962
index1962
1962 Gloss. Terms Automatic Data Processing (B.S.I.) 36 Directory, a list of addresses which are used as reference points in a program, for example, in relative coding.
1973 C. W. Gear Introd. Computer Sci. vii. 268 To avoid this we must create an array that tells us where the Ith member is located. Such an array is called an access table or directory.
1984 QL User Dec. 28 An advanced filing system permits data and program files to be split up into related groups or ‘directories’ on disk.
1986 What Micro? Nov. 51/2 Should a document become lost in a mess of directories on a hard disk, there is a search facility to locate it again.
(b) A data item describing the type and location of each field in a record.
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1964 Gloss. Data Processing (Honeywell Inc.) 19/2 Directory, a file with the layout of each field of the record which it describes; thus a directory describes the layout of a record within a file.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

directoryadj.

/dɪˈrɛktəri/
Etymology: < Latin dīrectōrius that directs, directive, < *dīrectōr-em director n.: see -ory suffix2. Compare obsolete French directoire (Cotgrave).
a. Serving or tending to direct; directive, guiding.
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society > authority > control > [adjective] > of or relating to direction > directing
directorya1450
directive1593
dirigent1617
ordering1678
directing1719
directoral1874
masterminding1973
a1450 J. Lydgate Secrees 593 Rewle directorye, set up in a somme.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Directoire, directorie, directiue, directing.
1613 M. Ridley Short Treat. Magneticall Bodies 62 The iron barres..being..placed North and South, do receive a polar vertue, and directory faculty.
1645 J. Tombes Anthropolatria 11 The power of Pastors..being..not in a compulsory, but a directory way.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 67 Neither was the..Sheriffs worke in that Court, other then directory or declaratory; for the Free-men were Judges of the fact.
1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady Introd. 4 Having no necessary Connection with what is Directory or Practical.
1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. iv. 318 In the directory business of the confessional.
b. spec. Applied to that part of the law which directs what is to be done, esp. to ‘a statute or part of a statute which operates merely as advice or direction to the person who is to do something pointed out, leaving the act or omission not destructive of the legality of what is done in disregard of the direction’.
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society > law > branch of the law > [adjective] > specific
setc1200
positivec1385
naturalc1390
directive1610
distributive1651
directory1692
substantive lawa1832
naturel1856
natural law1934
1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. v. 148 That Princes were not bound by any Laws, neither Coercive, nor Directory.
1765–9 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (T.) Every law may be said to consist of several parts: one declaratory..another directory.
1884 Law Times 11 Oct. 383/2 There was no necessity..to comply with the directory provisions of the Act as to delivery of copies in England.
1886 Law Times 80 241/1 The section is directory only, and a mortgage is not rendered invalid merely by reason of non-registration.
c. directory needle n. Obsolete a magnetic needle.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > bit of magnetized steel as direction indicator
needlea1393
mariner's needle1600
directory needle1613
inclinatory needle1613
dipping-needle1667
dip-needle1881
1613 M. Ridley Short Treat. Magneticall Bodies To Rdr. sig. A3v A Directory-needle, or a little flie Magneticall in the boxe, fastened at the bottome in his conuenient distance.
a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 281 This Needle..directing towards the North and South, the Mariners..call their Directorie-Needle.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. iii. 156 A well polished Stick of hard Wax (immediately after frication) will almost as vigorously move the Directory Needle, as the Loadstone it self.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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