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director
English
Alternative forms
- directour (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French directeur and its source Late Latin director, directorem, from Latin directus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d????kt?(?)/, /da????kt?(?)/, /da??????kt?(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /d????kt?/, /da????kt?/
- Rhymes: -?kt?(?)
Noun
director (plural directors, feminine directress or directrix)
- One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (e.g., director of engineering), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., film director).
- A counselor, confessor, or spiritual guide.
- That which directs or orientates something.
- 1971, United States. Office of Saline Water, Distillation Digest (volume 3, page 76)
- Installed longer flow director; it now just covers the entire diameter of the 6-in. brine return nozzle, and is 4 in. high […]
- 1971, United States. Office of Saline Water, Distillation Digest (volume 3, page 76)
- (military) A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.
- (chemistry) The common axis of symmetry of the molecules of a liquid crystal.
Derived terms
- director circle
- director conic
Translations
Anagrams
- creditor
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin director, directorem, from Latin directus, attested from 1696.
Noun
director m (plural directors, feminine directora)
- director
- conductor
- headteacher, principal
Related terms
- direcció
- dirigir
- directe
Further reading
- “director” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “director” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “director” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
References
Portuguese
Adjective
director m (feminine singular directora, masculine plural directores, feminine plural directoras, comparable)
- Superseded spelling of diretor. (superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)
Noun
director m (plural directores, feminine directora, feminine plural directoras)
- Superseded spelling of diretor. (superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)
Romanian
Etymology
From French directeur
Noun
director m (plural directori)
- director
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin director, directorem, from Latin directus.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -o?
Noun
director m (plural directores, feminine directora, feminine plural directoras)
- director
- conductor (of musical ensembles)
- (school) principal (North America), headmaster (Britain)
Derived terms
Related terms
- directora
- dirección
- dirigir
- directo
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arranger
English
Etymology
arrange +? -er
Noun
arranger (plural arrangers)
- One who arranges.
- Digital keyboard to play music with accompaniment styles.
Translations
French
Etymology
From Old French arangier
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.???.?e/
Verb
arranger
- to arrange
- (colloquial) to suit, to be convenient
- Désolé, ça ne m'arrange pas
- Sorry, that doesn't work for me.
- Désolé, ça ne m'arrange pas
- (reflexive) to be set for
- 1829, Victor Hugo, Le Dernier Jour d’un condamné
- Depuis l’heure où mon arrêt m’a été prononcé, combien sont morts qui s’arrangeaient pour une longue vie !
- Ever since my sentence was passed, how many who were set for a long life have died!
- Depuis l’heure où mon arrêt m’a été prononcé, combien sont morts qui s’arrangeaient pour une longue vie !
- 1829, Victor Hugo, Le Dernier Jour d’un condamné
- (Louisiana) to build
- Synonym: construire
- (Louisiana, Cajun French) to fix
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written arrange- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a “soft” /?/ and not a “hard” /?/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.
Derived terms
- mariage arrangé
Descendants
- ? Catalan: arranjar
- ? German: arrangieren
- ? Portuguese: arranjar
- ? Romanian: aranja
Further reading
- “arranger” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
arranger
- imperative of arrangere
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