Directory
noun
A list of names, numbers, or other information arranged in a particular order.
I looked up her name in the telephone directory.
Often appears as...
- telephone directory
- business directory
noun
A folder or place where data is stored on a computer.
You can find the file in the 'Documents' directory.
Often appears as...
- root directory
- subdirectory
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A list of names, numbers, or other information arranged in a particular order.
I looked up her name in the telephone directory.
Often appears as...
- telephone directory
- business directory
noun
A folder or place where data is stored on a computer.
You can find the file in the 'Documents' directory.
Often appears as...
- root directory
- subdirectory
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Organizational Tool
Directories often help people quickly find contact details or information.
Have a look at the company directory to get the manager’s extension number.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical and Digital
Directories exist both in print, like phone books, and online as databases.
You can use an online business directory to find local services.
Pro Tip 3/3Arranged Information
Information in a directory is usually sorted alphabetically or by category.
The tourist directory lists all the hotels by location and then by name.
Pro Tip 1/3Organizational Tool
Directories often help people quickly find contact details or information.
Have a look at the company directory to get the manager’s extension number.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical and Digital
Directories exist both in print, like phone books, and online as databases.
You can use an online business directory to find local services.
Pro Tip 3/3Arranged Information
Information in a directory is usually sorted alphabetically or by category.
The tourist directory lists all the hotels by location and then by name.
Pro Tip 1/3Organizational Tool
Directories often help people quickly find contact details or information.
Have a look at the company directory to get the manager’s extension number.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical and Digital
Directories exist both in print, like phone books, and online as databases.
You can use an online business directory to find local services.
Pro Tip 3/3Arranged Information
Information in a directory is usually sorted alphabetically or by category.
The tourist directory lists all the hotels by location and then by name.
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Video examples
Rob Hopkins: Transition...
like community-supported agriculture schemes, urban food production, creating local food directories, and so on. A lot of places now are starting to set up their own energy companies, community-owned energy companies, where the community can invest money into itself, to start putting in place the kind of renewable energy infrastructure that we need.
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Defend our freedom to...
and they're saying, we want to go anywhere in the world and censor content. Now the mechanism, as I said, for doing this, is you need to take out anybody pointing to those IP addresses. You need to take them out of search engines, you need to take them out of online directories,
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Chris Anderson (TED): A...
It had recently gone public and the market said that it was apparently worth two billion dollars, a number I didn't really understand. A magazine I'd recently launched called Business 2.0 was fatter than a telephone directory, busy pumping hot air into the bubble.
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Science didn't...
patient advocacy, research and health organizations. We built scalable and extensible resources, like biobanks and registries and directories of support for all diseases. And as I learned about all those diseases and all those disease communities,
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Lisa Gansky: The future...
is also to share failures and successes. We're at the very beginning of something that, what we're seeing and the way that mesh companies are coming forward, is inviting, it's engaging, but it's very early. I have a website -- it's a directory --
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Making sense of complex...
tens of discipline tags so the software what it does it mines the data and sees like who is similar to who across many many different dimensions to me that's quite an evolution to our directory on the fellows website which is basically a
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The TED Fellows program
thanking us for being here one of the most powerful ways in which we can help the Ted fellows is offering them the platform of Ted calm in addition to putting up a directory of their profiles and letting them blog in a continuous
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The Restorative Power of...
with 3D, realistic, permanent nipple tattoos. We have a directory of artists throughout the UK that all work to a standard set by NIP, another standard, very important, and funding is available from the charity
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Catch of the Week -...
hurry up hurry up me to fish at a time it's a blessing and a curse change the directory if they cross lines sighs yes you cut them off
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Danny Hillis: The...
So, this book that I have in my hand is a directory of everybody who had an email address
Video examples
Rob Hopkins: Transition...
like community-supported agriculture schemes, urban food production, creating local food directories, and so on. A lot of places now are starting to set up their own energy companies, community-owned energy companies, where the community can invest money into itself, to start putting in place the kind of renewable energy infrastructure that we need.
Video examples
Defend our freedom to...
and they're saying, we want to go anywhere in the world and censor content. Now the mechanism, as I said, for doing this, is you need to take out anybody pointing to those IP addresses. You need to take them out of search engines, you need to take them out of online directories,
Video examples
Chris Anderson (TED): A...
It had recently gone public and the market said that it was apparently worth two billion dollars, a number I didn't really understand. A magazine I'd recently launched called Business 2.0 was fatter than a telephone directory, busy pumping hot air into the bubble.
Video examples
Science didn't...
patient advocacy, research and health organizations. We built scalable and extensible resources, like biobanks and registries and directories of support for all diseases. And as I learned about all those diseases and all those disease communities,
Video examples
Lisa Gansky: The future...
is also to share failures and successes. We're at the very beginning of something that, what we're seeing and the way that mesh companies are coming forward, is inviting, it's engaging, but it's very early. I have a website -- it's a directory --
Video examples
Making sense of complex...
tens of discipline tags so the software what it does it mines the data and sees like who is similar to who across many many different dimensions to me that's quite an evolution to our directory on the fellows website which is basically a
Video examples
The TED Fellows program
thanking us for being here one of the most powerful ways in which we can help the Ted fellows is offering them the platform of Ted calm in addition to putting up a directory of their profiles and letting them blog in a continuous
Video examples
The Restorative Power of...
with 3D, realistic, permanent nipple tattoos. We have a directory of artists throughout the UK that all work to a standard set by NIP, another standard, very important, and funding is available from the charity
Video examples
Catch of the Week -...
hurry up hurry up me to fish at a time it's a blessing and a curse change the directory if they cross lines sighs yes you cut them off
Video examples
Danny Hillis: The...
So, this book that I have in my hand is a directory of everybody who had an email address
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Quote examples
Sophie Hannah
British Poet
Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate: if you go looking for names, you're bound to find them, of course, but I've always had a superstitious hunch that the names you find by accident are always going to be better and more satisfying somehow.
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Barry Diller
American Businessman
The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.
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John Sununu
American Politician
Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.
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Mark Zuckerberg
American Businessman
I think Facebook is an online directory for colleges... If I want to get information about you, I just go to TheFacebook, type in your name, and it hopefully pulls up all the information I'd care to know about you.
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Paul Graham
English Scientist
When Facebook first started, and it was just a social directory for undergrads at Harvard, it would have seemed like such a bad startup idea, like some student side project.
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Michael Seibel
American Businessman
There is a directory where you can explore every single person who has gone through YC and a private forum that only founders can participate in.
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Eva Marie
American Actress
WWE Network has been phenomenal for me. It's an amazing directory for not only myself, but for anyone who's into wrestling.
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Christine McVie
American Musician
Recording 'Tusk' was quite absurd. The studio contract rider for refreshments was like a telephone directory.
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Donald Sinden
English Actor
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
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Joan Rivers
American Comedian
Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory.
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Sophie Hannah
British Poet
Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate: if you go looking for names, you're bound to find them, of course, but I've always had a superstitious hunch that the names you find by accident are always going to be better and more satisfying somehow.
Quote examples
Barry Diller
American Businessman
The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.
Quote examples
John Sununu
American Politician
Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.
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Mark Zuckerberg
American Businessman
I think Facebook is an online directory for colleges... If I want to get information about you, I just go to TheFacebook, type in your name, and it hopefully pulls up all the information I'd care to know about you.
Quote examples
Paul Graham
English Scientist
When Facebook first started, and it was just a social directory for undergrads at Harvard, it would have seemed like such a bad startup idea, like some student side project.
Quote examples
Michael Seibel
American Businessman
There is a directory where you can explore every single person who has gone through YC and a private forum that only founders can participate in.
Quote examples
Eva Marie
American Actress
WWE Network has been phenomenal for me. It's an amazing directory for not only myself, but for anyone who's into wrestling.
Quote examples
Christine McVie
American Musician
Recording 'Tusk' was quite absurd. The studio contract rider for refreshments was like a telephone directory.
Quote examples
Donald Sinden
English Actor
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
Quote examples
Joan Rivers
American Comedian
Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory.
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