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DIRECTORY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An alphabetical list of names and addresses
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("directory" is a kind of...):
book of facts; reference; reference book; reference work (a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "directory"):
phone book; phonebook; telephone book; telephone directory (a directory containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers and their telephone numbers)
blue book (a register of persons who are socially prominent)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("directory" is a kind of...):
list; listing (a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics))
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "directory"):
subdirectory ((computer science) a directory that is listed in another directory)
