director

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EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• directour (obsolete)

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Anglo-Norman directour, from Old French, from Late Latin director, directorem, from Latin directus.

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈɹɛktə(ɹ)/, IPA^(key): /daɪˈɹɛktə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /dɪˈɹɛktɚ/, IPA^(key): /daɪˈɹɛktɚ/

NounEdit

director (plural directors)

1. One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (e.g., director of engineering), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., film director).
2. That which directs or orientates something.
   • 1971, United States. Office of Saline Water, Distillation Digest (volume 3, page 76)

     Installed longer flow director; it now just covers the entire diameter of the 6-in. brine return nozzle, and is 4 in. high […]

3. (military) A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.
4. (chemistry) The common axis of symmetry of the molecules of a liquid crystal.

Derived termsEdit

• director circle
• director conic

TranslationsEdit

supervisor, manager — See also translations at film director

• Arabic: مُدِير‏‎ m (mudīr), مُخْرِج‏‎ m (muḵrij) (film)
• Armenian: տնօրեն (hy) (tnōren)
• Belarusian: дырэктар m (dyréktar), рэжысёр m (režysjór) (film)
• Bulgarian: ръководител (bg) m (rǎkovoditel), директор (bg) (direktor), режисьор m (režisjor) (film)
• Catalan: director (ca) m, directora (ca) f, directora (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 經理 (zh), 经理 (zh) (jīnglǐ), (film) 導演 (zh), 导演 (zh) (dǎoyǎn), 指揮 (zh), 指挥 (zh) (zhǐhuī) (conductor), 指揮者 (zh), 指挥者 (zh) (zhǐhuīzhě)

• Czech: ředitel (cs) m, režisér (cs) m (in film)
• Dutch: directeur (nl) m, f, regisseur (nl) m
• Esperanto: direktoro, reĝisoro
• Finnish: johtaja (fi), (film director) ohjaaja (fi)
• French: directeur (fr) m, régisseur (fr) m (film)
• German: Direktor (de) m, Direktorin (de) f, Regisseur (de) m, Regisseurin (de) f (film)
• Greek: (film director) σκηνοθέτης (el) m (skinothétis), διευθυντής (el) m (diefthyntís)
• Hausa: darekta (ha)
• Hebrew: מנהל‏‎ m (menahel), (manager) מנהלת‏‎ f (menahelet), במאי‏‎ (he) m (bamai), (in cinema or theater) במאית‏‎ f (bamayt)
• Hungarian: igazgató (hu), rendező (hu)
• Icelandic: leikstjóri m
• Indonesian: sutradara (id) (film), direktur (id)
• Irish: stiúrthóir m
• Italian: direttore (it) m, regista (it) m, capo (it) m
• Japanese: 監督 (ja) (かんとく, kantoku), 指揮者 (ja) (しきしゃ, shikisha) (conductor)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: کاربه‌ده‌ست‏‎

• Latvian: direktors m, direktore f
• Macedonian: директор m (direktor), режисер m (režiser) (film)
• Malay: pengarah, sutradara (in film making), direktur
• Maori: whakataka
• Norman: directeu m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: (film, theatre) regissør m

  Nynorsk: (film, theatre) regissør m

• Polish: dyrektor (pl) m, reżyser (pl) m (film)
• Portuguese: diretor (pt) m
• Romanian: director (ro) m, directoare (ro) f, regizor (ro) m (film)
• Russian: дире́ктор (ru) m (diréktor), режиссёр (ru) m (režissjór) (film), дирижёр (ru) m (dirižór) (conductor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: режисер (film)

  Roman: reditelj (sh), upravitelj (sh), ravnatelj (sh) m, redatelj (sh) m, zborovodja (in a choir), režiser (sh) m (film)

• Slovak: riaditeľ m, režisér m (film)
• Slovene: direktor m, režiser (sl) m (film)
• Spanish: director (es) m, directora (es) f
• Swahili: mkurugenzi (sw)
• Swedish: regissör (sv) c (movie/theater/show), chef (sv) c
• Turkish: yönetmen (tr)
• Ukrainian: директор m (dyréktor), режисер m (režysér) (film)
• Vietnamese: quản đốc (vi)
• Volapük: dilekan (vo)

device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system

• Irish: diúracóir m

AnagramsEdit

• creditor

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CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Late Latin director, directorem, from Latin directus.

NounEdit

director m (plural directors, feminine directora)

1. director
2. conductor
3. headteacher, principal

Related termsEdit

• direcció
• dirigir
• directe

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PortugueseEdit

AdjectiveEdit

director m (feminine singular directora, masculine plural directores, feminine plural directoras, comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of diretor (superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform, and by the Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect, and as an alternative spelling in Portugal, where the agreement came into effect in May 2009.)

NounEdit

director m (plural directores, feminine directora, feminine plural directoras)

1. Alternative spelling of diretor (superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform, and by the Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect, and as an alternative spelling in Portugal, where the agreement came into effect in May 2009.)

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SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Late Latin director, directorem, from Latin directus.

NounEdit

director m (plural directores, feminine directora)

1. director

Related termsEdit

• directora
• dirección
• dirigir
• directo