different between directive vs summons

English

Etymology

From Middle French directif. The noun senses are from French directive (feminine form of the adjective).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /da????k.t?v/, /d????k.t?v/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d????k.t?v/
• Rhymes: -?kt?v

Adjective

directive (not comparable)

1. that directs; serving to direct, indicate, or guide
   • 2002, Colin Gray, Enterprise and Culture (page 54)

     A directive management style is stronger among owners with 'lifestyle' as a business objective than among those with business/economic objectives.

2. (grammar) relating to the directive case

Related terms

• directively
• directiveness

Translations

Noun

directive (plural directives)

1. An instruction or guideline that indicates how to perform an action or reach a goal.
2. (programming) A construct in source code that indicates how it should be processed but is not necessarily part of the program to be run.
3. An authoritative decision from an official body, which may or may not have binding force.
4. (European Union law) A form of legislative act addressed to the member states. The directive binds the member state to reach certain objectives in their national legislation.
5. (grammar) The directive case.

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.??k.tiv/
• Rhymes: -iv
• Homophone: directives

Adjective

directive

1. feminine singular of directif

Noun

directive f (plural directives)

1. directive, general instructions, guideline

Further reading

• “directive” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?.m?nz/

Etymology 1

From Middle English somouns (“order or command to do something”), borrowed from Old French sumunce (modern French semonce), from Vulgar Latin *summonsa, a noun use of the feminine past participle of summone?, summon?re (“to summon”).

Noun

summons (plural summonses)

1. A call to do something, especially to come.
   • 1818, Henry Hallam, View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages

     special summonses by the king

   • 1661, John Fell, The Life of the Most Learned, Reverend and Pious Dr. H. Hammond

     this summons […] unfit either to dispute or disobey

   • 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward VI

     He sent to summon the seditious, and to offer pardon […] ; but neither summons nor pardon was any thing regarded.

2. (law) A notice summoning someone to appear in court, as a defendant, juror or witness.
3. (military) A demand for surrender.

Descendants

• ? Bengali: ??? (?ômôn)
• ? Cebuano: sumon
• ? Malay: saman
  • ? English: saman

Translations

Verb

summons (third-person singular simple present summonses, present participle summonsing, simple past and past participle summonsed)

1. (transitive) To serve someone with a summons. [17th C.]

See also

• summons on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Summons in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

summons

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of summon

Anagrams

• musmons