DIRECTORY


Meaning of DIRECTORY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

directory enquiries

telephone directory

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

current

If the program file is in the current directory , only the file name needs to be given.

If the program is not in the current directory , its full device, path and file name must be specified.

For example, one of the most useful is to include not only the drive letter, but the current directory .

All these files are listed for cursor selection if the file is in the current directory .

If this field is left blank, the Destination Account will default to the current directory .

local

They have many local branches, so you can check in your local telephone directory whether there is one near you.

Their addresses are listed in local telephone directories .

Adult Education Centres See local telephone directory under your local council listing.

new

These allow the user to delete and rename files or make a backup copy. New directories can also be created.

Click the extract button, and the originals will be extracted from the compressed file and placed in the new directory .

He had also promised that he would not obtain Polly's new ex-directory telephone number.

Then I clicked on another link, which created a new directory called HaHaHa on my hard disk.

There's a new directory there now.

A third link deleted the new directory .

Creating and Moving Storage Directories New storage directories may be created at any time.

specified

If specified , the directory must exist and the user must have at least read and write access to it.

■ NOUN

default

You can however change the names of the default directories if you wish.

By and large, individual programs allow you to set a default directory where files are always saved.

Please check your protections on the Authorisation file and your default directory .

Please check the protection on your default directory and that you have sufficient disk quota.

Please check your protection on the Authorisation file and your default directory and ensure that you have sufficient disk quota.

enquiry

Only when she checked with directory enquiries did she learn that the receiver was off the hook.

Pascoe had obtained the number from directory enquiries and listened to her answerphone message a dozen times or more.

She hunted down the telephone number through directory enquiries and then rang.

First he rang directory enquiries and then the operator.

Perhaps she should get his number from directory enquiries .

name

If this isn't the case then change C and the directory name as appropriate.

They must not, however, contain disk or directory names .

Changing the directory names of the Process and/or Working Directories is very similar.

Please supply a valid directory name .

phone

There were, after all, only two in the London phone directory .

They never show up on the formal organization chart and seldom in the corporate phone directory .

I went through to Shelley's office for the Bradford phone directory and looked it up.

root

The SHELL.BAT file should now be in your root directory .

service

The View menu is key to getting what you want from directory services .

It has no central directory service for locating information or people.

Netscape is not the first company to provide some form of directory services .

structure

It will provide a map of your directory structure but won't transport you to a chosen sub-directory.

It also moves them, searches for them and copies directory structures from one drive to another.

telephone

Diana and Carolyn would regularly while away a quiet evening ringing people with silly names who appeared in the telephone directory .

It was as if some one had suddenly placed several telephone directories on my chest.

I have often suspected that by raking through the telephone directory according to a number code, you could extract a secret message.

It also publishes seven community telephone directories and two magazines, concentrated in Howard and Carroll counties.

For the address of your tax office, see Inland Revenue in the telephone directory .

Woodward sat down in a hard chair by his phone and checked the telephone directory .

The other method for collecting facts about potential purchasers is through published lists - like the telephone directory or the electoral register.

The route is promoted in publications ranging from telephone directories to restaurant placemats, but the information is often confusing and inaccurate.

trade

Still, I've been through the trade directory and come up with something a bit more hopeful.

A reliable trade directory such as Kompass or Dunn and Bradstreet can prove useful in identifying potential industrial buyers.

They will include government reports, travellers' descriptions and antiquarian books, trade directories , old newspapers, early school textbooks.

■ VERB

check

Only when she checked with directory enquiries did she learn that the receiver was off the hook.

Woodward sat down in a hard chair by his phone and checked the telephone directory .

Jasper had given me a number, and it had checked out with directory assistance.

create

Then I clicked on another link, which created a new directory called HaHaHa on my hard disk.

list

Their addresses are listed in local telephone directories .

Her home number was not listed in the directory so it had to be the stage door.

He wondered why it was not even listed in the telephone directory .

For example, in InteWord you can list the directory of files available from the Storage sub-menu while you can not in InteCalc.

provide

Netscape is not the first company to provide some form of directory services.

publish

The National Cancer Alliance publishes a directory of cancer specialists.

It also publishes seven community telephone directories and two magazines, concentrated in Howard and Carroll counties.

It publishes a free directory of stockbrokers in Britain and what theyoffer.

They have regular regional meetings and publish a directory of members.

use

One study of 2,072 customers showed 96% using the directory .

There is now more than one charge code using the same storage directory .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a directory of city tours

Sam's number should be listed in the telephone directory .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

His name was the first to come to her mind and his telephone number was in the directory .

If specified, the directory must exist and the user must have at least read and write access to it.

If the program is not in the current directory , its full device, path and file name must be specified.

In a perfect world, there would be a single universal e-mail directory .

She added that all rooms contained details about the charges in an information directory .

The Explorer view is one of two ways in which you can look at directories and files via the My Computer icon.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.