单词 | directory |
释义 | directoryn. 1. Something that serves to direct; a guide; esp. a book of rules or directions. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. b. Roman Catholic Church A manual containing directions for the repetition of the daily offices; an ordinal. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. Draft additions 1993 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. a. Serving or tending to direct; directive, guiding. ΘΚΠ 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’. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1543adj.a1450 |
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