directory
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di·rec·to·ry
(dĭ-rĕk'tə-rē, dī-) 
n., pl., -ries.
Serving to direct.
n., pl., -ries.
- A book containing an alphabetical or classified listing of names, addresses, and other data, such as telephone numbers, of specific persons, groups, or firms.
- Computer Science.
- A listing of the files contained in a storage device, such as a magnetic disk.
- A description of the various characteristics of a file, such as the layout of the fields in it.
- A book of rules or directions.
- A group or body of directors.
Serving to direct.
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(179599) Government set up during the French Revolution by the Constitution of 1795. Legislative power was placed in the Council of Five Hundred and the Council of Ancients, while executive power was placed in a five-member Directory. Though the Directors nominally inherited many of the powers of the Committee of Public Safety, they had no funds to finance their projects or courts to enforce their will. The regime was marked by administrative chaos and corruption and by the uprisings in the Vende. It was overthrown in Napoleon's Coup of 1819 Brumaire.
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(1) A simulated file folder on disk. Directories and folders are two terms for the same thing. The term "directory" was first used in Unix and DOS environments. The Mac came later and used "folder" for the same structure. Windows followed the Mac. See folder.
(2) A database of users, hardware devices and applications in a network. See DSML, directory service and metadirectory.
(3) A database of Web sites organized by subject that is used by search engines. Yahoo! was a directory site in its early days, but then added search bots to automatically index pages as the Web grew too large to manually index. Google uses information from the Open Directory Project for its directory site (http://directory.google.com). See Open Directory Project, Web search engines, metasearch sites and Yahoo!.
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An area on a disk where files are stored; may also contain subdivisions called subdirectories . Later versions of Microsoft Windows have adopted the Macintosh term folder for this concept since, like a file folder, it contains files.
See also root directory.
See also root directory.
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Directory, group of five men who held the executive power in France according to the constitution of the year III (1795) of the French Revolution. They were chosen by the new legislature, by the Council of Five Hundred and the Council of Ancients; each year one director, chosen by lot, was to be replaced. The Directory was balanced by two representative assemblies elected indirectly by property holders. Governing a nearly bankrupt nation, the Directory had a stormy history. Politically, it walked a narrow course between Jacobins on the left and royalists on the right. During its history, the Directory instituted positive monetary reforms, which helped revive trade and agriculture, and provided the basis for Napoleon's restoration of order. But full recovery from the Revolution was not possible. The Directory not only faced a series of political crises, but was riddled with inefficiency and corruption. It suppressed the conspiracies of "Gracchus" Babeuf on the left and royalist uprisings on the right and later annulled some results in the elections of 1797 and 1798. Its increasingly repressive measures resulted in political isolation and bankruptcy. In the coup of 18 Fructidor (Sept. 4, 1797), the more conservative directors, Lazare Carnot and François de Barthélemy were ousted, and measures against the church and émigrés were revived. In addition, the Directory lost control of foreign policy to the generals in the field, especially Napoleon Bonaparte. Some of Napoleon's actions, such as negotiating the Treaty of Compo Formio and the Egyptian expedition, may have led to the formation of the Second Coalition against France. Discontent with the Directory rose to a high pitch with the military reverses of 1799 in which the republics from Holland to S Italy fell to the combined assault of Russian, Austrian, and British forces. Despite the fact that an invasion of France was prevented and these forces were defeated before Napoleon's return, the Abbé Sieyès, elected a director in May, 1799, secretly prepared the coup of 18 Brumaire (Nov. 9, 1799), which put Bonaparte in power, replacing the Directory with the Consulate.
Bibliography
See M. Lyons, France under the Directory (1975).
West's Encyclopedia of American Law:
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This entry contains information applicable to United States law only.
A provision in a statute, rule of procedure, or the like, that is a mere direction or instruction of no obligatory force and involves no invalidating consequence for its disregard, as opposed to an imperative or mandatory provision, which must be followed. The general rule is that the prescriptions of a statute relating to the performance of a public duty are so far directory that, though neglect of them may be punishable, it does not affect the validity of the acts done under them, as in the case of a statute requiring an officer to prepare and deliver a document to another officer on or before a certain day.
Generally, statutory provisions that do not relate to the essence of a thing to be done, and as to which compliance is a matter of convenience rather than of substance, are directory, while provisions that relate to the essence of a thing to be done, that is, matters of substance, are mandatory.
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1. an organized list of names, organizations, or other data bases for ease of retrieval or reference. n 2. the listing of files in a computer storage system.
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categories related to 'directory'
- Voice Transmission and Telephony - directory: book listing all residential and business telephone numbers in region or district
- General Technology - directory: table of contents that lists files
- Software, Languages, and Programming - directory: in DOS, a top-level storage area for files and collections of files
- Memory and Data Storage - directory: table of contents for files on disk
- Publications - directory: listing of names, addresses, and other information about a specific group of people
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For Wikipedia’s directories, see Wikipedia:Directory.
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Directory may refer to:
- Directory (file systems), or folder, a file system structure in which to store computer files
- Directory (databases), stored information about a database
- Directory service, a software application for organizing information about a computer network's users and resources
- Directory (political), a small group of influential states that is said to 'direct' the agenda
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- French Directory, the government in revolutionary France from 1795 to 1799
- Telephone directory, a book which allows telephone numbers to be found given the subscriber's name
- Trade directory, a listing of information about suppliers and manufacturers
- Web directory, an organized collection of links to websites
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - telefonbog, vejviser, medlemsoversigt, direktorat, filkatalog, bibliotek, ritualbog
adj. - vejledende
idioms:
- directory enquiries nummerkontor
Nederlands (Dutch)
adressenlijst, telefoonboek, onderverdeling in computer (map/ directory), leidraad, raad van commissarissen, directorium
Français (French)
n. - (Comput) répertoire de dossiers, (Télécom) annuaire (des téléphones), répertoire (d'adresses), guide (des rues), (Hist) Directoire
adj. - de téléphone, d'adresses
idioms:
- directory enquiries (service des) renseignements
Deutsch (German)
n. - Adressenverzeichnis, Telefonbuch, Branchenverzeichnis
adj. - leitend, richtunggebend
idioms:
- directory enquiries (Fernsprech)auskunft
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - τηλεφωνικός οδηγός/κατάλογος, (ιστ.) Διευθυντήριο, (Η/Υ) κατάλογος, ευρετήριο
idioms:
- directory enquiries πληροφορίες τηλεφωνικού καταλόγου
idioms:
- directory assistance/enquiries servizio informazioni
Português (Portuguese)
n. - diretoria (f)
idioms:
- directory enquiries auxílio à lista (telefônica)
Русский (Russian)
справочник, директория
idioms:
- directory enquiries справочное бюро
Español (Spanish)
n. - guía de teléfonos, directorio, manual de instrucciones, cartelera informativa
adj. - directivo, indicativo
idioms:
- directory enquiries servicio de información telefónica
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - adressförteckning
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
姓名住址簿, 号码簿, 工商名录, 董事会, 指导的, 咨询的
idioms:
- directory enquiries 查号台查询
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 姓名住址簿, 號碼簿, 工商名錄, 董事會
adj. - 指導的, 諮詢的
idioms:
- directory enquiries 查號臺查詢
한국어 (Korean)
n. - (컴퓨터) 디렉토리
adj. - 디렉토리의
idioms:
- directory enquiries 電話案内
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) الدليل ( مساحه محجوزة على القرص المغناطيسي في الحاسوب لتخزين معلومات لوصف ملفات)
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - מדריך (ספר), חלק של דיסק המחשב הקרוי בשם מסוים ומכיל קבצים ותוכנות
adj. - מנחה, מדריך
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