Word Meanings - STERNER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A director. Dr. R. Clerke.

DIRECTORY
Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
DIRECTORSHIP
The condition or office of a director; directorate.
DIRECTORIAL
1. Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive. 2. Pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the Directory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3. Whoever goes to the directorial presence
DIRECTORATE
The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.
DIRECTOR
A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent. In all affairs thou sole director. Swift. 2. One of a body
GUINEA-PIG DIRECTOR
A director who serves merely or mainly for the fee paid for attendance.
STAGE DIRECTOR
One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the business to be used, all stage effects, and instructs the actors, excepting usually the star, in the general interpretation of their parts.