Meaning of directory | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A list of names, addresses etc, of specific classes of people or organizations, often in alphabetical order or in some classification
2. guide
3. A list of names, addresses etc, of specific classes of people or organizations, often in alphabetical order or in some classification.
4. A structured listing of the names and characteristics of the files on a storage device
5. guidebook
6. A structured listing of the names and characteristics of the files on a storage device.
7. 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.
8. 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
9. A form of government with a collegial executive whose members jointly exercise power; the executive of such a government.
10. A form of government with a collegial executive whose members jointly exercise power; the executive of such a government
11. third-person singular present indicative
12. Containing directions; instructing; directorial
13. second-person singular imperative

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Examples

“look up an address in the directory”

“[…] at the Ufa State Conference it was it was the union's conception of a directory (rather than a dictatorship) to rule anti-Bolshevik Russia that won the day.”

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