1. directory - Noun
2. directory - Adjective
Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book.
A book containing the names and residences of the inhabitants of any place, or of classes of them; an address book; as, a business directory.
A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic.
Direction; guide.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers. James Boswell
I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. William F. Buckley
Obscenity can be found in every book except the telephone directory. George Bernard Shaw
Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory. John McAfee
Universal coding for computers is sought that uses relative addresses and a pseudocode and that assembles and translates, printing out a directory of final addresses of key commands, variables, and constants. Saul Gorn
If you're purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn't illuminate. Werner Herzog