directorn.

Brit.

/dᵻˈrɛktə/,

/dʌɪˈrɛktə/, U.S.

/dəˈrɛktər/,

/daɪˈrɛktər/

Forms: Also Middle English–1600s directour, 1500s–1800s directer (1500s Scottish direkkare, direckar).

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman directour = French directeur, < Latin *dīrector, agent-noun < dīrigĕre to direct.

a. One who or that which directs, rules, or guides; a guide, a conductor; ‘one that has authority over others; a superintendent; one that has the general management of a design or work’ (Johnson). director-general, a chief or supreme director, having under him directors or managers of departments.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > director

mastereOE

steerc897

ordainerc1443

director1477

rector1482

sayer1483

orderer1496

solicitera1530

temperator1591

ordinator1615

sternera1634

dirigent1756

chargé d'affaires1797

quarterback1931

1477 W. Caxton in Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (1877) lf. 73 Erle of Ryuyers.., Defendour and directour of the siege apostolique.

1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. i. vii. f. 19^v To be ledar, techar, and direckar of the same kirk.

1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 741 They use hir [the moon] as the directer of their festiuall daies.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. iii. 54 It cannot be, but nature hath some director of infinite knowledge to guide her.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. iv. §3. 268 The North starre is the most fixed directour of the Sea-man to his desired Port.

1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 77 in Justice Vindicated The husband is the director and ruler of his wife.

1746–7 J. Hervey Medit. (1818) 78 Whatever thou doest, consult them as thy directors.

1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 467/1 In 1769 Mozart was appointed director of the archbishop of Salzburg's concerts.

1866 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. IX. xvi. 295 He was created director-general of the finances.

1880 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 412/2 The theatre was turned permanently into an opera-house..The director was Mr. Frederick Beale.

1890 ‘W. A. Wallace’ Only a Sister 86 Stable-master and director-in-general of everything.

1891 ‘S. C. Scrivener’ Our Fields & Cities 135 It is a better knowledge of the effect produced by inevitable ‘weather’ that the director of cultivation requires.

b. spec. A member of a board appointed to direct or manage the affairs of a commercial corporation or company.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > non-manual worker > businessman > [noun] > director

director1632

1632 (title) A remonstrance of the directors of the Netherlands East India Company..touching the bloudy proceedings against the English Merchants..at Amboyna.

1673 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 8 6113 He..is still one of the chief of the Court of Committees, which a foreigner would call Directors.

1697 London Gaz. No. 3303/3 (Bank of Eng.) A General Court will be held for the Election of Twenty four Directors.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 3. ¶1 I looked into the great Hall where the Bank is kept, and was not a little pleased to see the Directors, Secretaries, and Clerks.

1733 A. Pope Of Use of Riches 7 What made Directors cheat in South-Sea year?

1758 S. Johnson Idler 4 Nov. 241 I was hired in the family of an East India Director.

1825 W. Scott Jrnl. 13 Dec. (1939) 42 Went to the yearly court of the Edinburgh Assurance Company, to which I am one of those graceful and useless appendages, called Directors Extraordi[na]ry.

1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly I. vii. 127 Gabriel Cassilis..was a director of many companies.

c. spec. A member of the French Directory of 1795–9: see directory n. 6.

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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [noun] > specifically in France > member of

director1798

peer1848

1798 Anti-Jacobin 14 May 214/2 The French Directors Have thought the point so knotty.

1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 15/1 The executive power was entrusted to five directors..The directors had the management of the military force, of the finances, and of the home and foreign departments.

d. Ecclesiastical (chiefly Roman Catholic Church). An ecclesiastic holding the position of spiritual adviser to some particular person or society.

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society > faith > worship > preaching > catechesis > [noun] > one who performs

fatherOE

catechizerc1449

mystagoguec1540

oracle1548

catechist1564

guru1613

director1671

swami1901

1671 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa i. xiii. 80 He will have great need of a Directour, if he can meet with an experienced one.

1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian ii. i. 26 He prates as if Kings had not Consciences, And none requir'd Directors but the Crowd.

1697 J. Woodward Acct. Relig. Societies London in Earnest Admon. Young Persons 225 That an Orthodox and pious Minister should be chosen by each Society, as the Director and Visiter of it.

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. iv. 22 The parson of the parish, who was one of the executors, and had acted as ghostly director of the old man.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 648 Tillotson..as a spiritual director, had, at that time, immense authority.

1877 Daily News 25 Oct. 5/7 A director is not the same as a confessor..A confessor hears avowals of sin, a director is consulted in ‘cases of conscience’.

†e. Music. = direct n. 2. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun] > indication of first note of next page

director1597

index1597

direct1654

mostra1724

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 20 It is called an Index or director: for looke in what place it standeth, in that place doth the first note of the next verse stand.

1667 C. Simpson Compend. Pract. Musick 22 This mark ? is set to direct us where the first Note of the next five Lines doth stand, and is therefore called a Directer.

f. A small letter inserted by the scribe for the direction of the illuminator in the space left for an illuminated initial.

ΚΠ

1881 W. Blades Life & Typogr. W. Caxton (1882) 230 Space is left at the beginning of the chapters with a director, for the insertion of 2 to 5-line initials.

g. One who directs a film or play, etc. (see direct v. 5c). Originally U.S.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > people concerned with theatrical productions > [noun] > director or producer

play-dresser1602

acting manager1733

metteur en scène1851

producer1891

director1911

actor-producer1961

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming unit or team > [noun] > producer or director

art director1871

producer1891

director1911

production director1915

actor-producer1927

1911 Moving Picture World 22 July 108/2 The director explains to the players the action of a..scene.

1914 R. Grau Theatre of Sci. 362 The world-famous director, D. W. Griffith.

1915 E. A. Dench Making Movies i. 1 Good actors, authors and photographers are indispensable, but unless they are guided by a talented director, results will be disappointing.

1933 Punch 30 Aug. 234/2 Mr. Herbert Wilcox, its [sc. the film's] director, has skilfully overcome the difficulties of adaptation.

1938 W. S. Maugham Summing Up 107 The director shouts ‘curtain up’.

1938 W. S. Maugham Summing Up 107 I use the American word director rather than the English one, producer, because I think it better describes what should be the function of the person in question.

1944 Sunday Times 16 Jan. 2/6 In the meantime I pity the poor director, as we are beginning to call the producer.

1963 Listener 28 Feb. 392/3 BBC television has recently been..holding on to the directorial talent it has itself developed and at the same time luring in the best directors from independent television.

†2. The dedicator of a book or the like. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1553 Douglas' Æneis (1710) 481 Here The Direkkare and Translatare of this Buke direkkis it.

a. One who or that which causes something to take a particular direction.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > direction > [noun] > giving direction towards a mark > that which

director1646

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. ii. 62 [The] Needle.. will not hang parallel, but decline at the north extreme, and at that part will first salute its Director .

†b. One who aims a missile. Obsolete. rare.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > wielder or director of weapon

guidec1381

handler1598

director1632

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vii. 300 The best director may mistake his ayme.

c. Surgery. A hollow or grooved instrument for directing the course of a knife or scissors in making an incision.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > guiding or directing instruments

director1667

directory1693

staff1699

obturator1862

1667 R. Lower in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 544 Take it [the Incision-knife] out, and put in a Director, or a small Quill made like it.

1767 B. Gooch Pract. Treat. Wounds I. 383 Carefully introduce a very small director, to avoid injuring the intestines.

1854 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 278/1 Director..grooved instrument for guiding a bistoury, etc., in certain operations.

d. ‘A metallic rod in a non-conducting handle connected with one pole of a galvanic battery, for the purpose of transmitting the current to a part of the body.’ New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1883.

ΚΠ

1795 T. Cavallo Compl. Treat. Electr. (ed. 4) II. 122 Each of these instruments, justly called directors, consists of a knobbed brass wire.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 267 The other extremities of the wires must be fastened to the wires of the instruments YZ, which are called directors.

1846 J. Joyce Sci. Dialogues xv. 394 (Electricity).

e. An apparatus for directing a torpedo.

ΚΠ

1889 C. Sleeman Torpedoes (ed. 2) 252 The Torpedo director..consists of a brass circular casting..faced out and graduated.

f. Perspective. (See quots.)

ΚΠ

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 964 Director Of An Original Line, the straight line passing through the directing point and the eye of a spectator.

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 964 Director Of The Eye, the intersection of the plane with the directing plane perpendicular to the original plane and that of the picture, and hence also perpendicular to the directing and vanishing planes.

g. Geometry. = director-circle n. at Compounds: see below and cf. directrix n. 2(b).

ΚΠ

1852 Gaskin Geom. Constr. Conic Sect. Pref. 6 There are several remarkable properties of this locus, which, as far as the author is aware, have not been hitherto noticed, and he has found it convenient to denominate it the ‘director’ of the conic section, which in the case of the parabola coincides with the directrix.

Compounds

director-circle n. (of a conic) the locus of intersection of tangents at right angles to each other; so also director-sphere (of a surface of the second degree).Director-circle is also sometimes used to denote the circle described about a focus of an ellipse or hyperbola with radius = major axis. See Taylor Anc. & Mod. Geom. of Conics (1881) 90. (H. T. Gerrans.)

ΚΠ

1867 R. Townsend in Q. Jrnl. Math. VIII. 11 For the paraboloid..the director sphere opens out into a plane.

1882 Daily News 8 June 5/8 Equation to the Director Circle of a Conic, [by] Professor Wolstenholme.

director-plane n. a fixed plane used in describing a surface, analogous to the line called a directrix n.

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1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Directer plane.

1867 R. Townsend in Q. Jrnl. Math. VIII. 11 The director plane of the paraboloid.

1876 Catal. Special Loan Coll. Sci. Apparatus S. Kensington Mus. §99 The director planes..of these conoïds are at right angles to one another.

director-tube n. = sense 3e.

ΚΠ

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Mar. 5/1 Director tube..is the telescopic apparatus through which aim is taken at the enemy's vessel, and by means of which the torpedo is fired.

Draft additions December 2004

director's cut n. Film (originally U.S.) the version of a film submitted by its director, which is then usually re-edited by the studio before release; (now) spec. a version of a film reflecting the director's intentions, released after the original studio version.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > printing > [noun] > a print > edited versions

cut1922

rough cut1922

fine cut1952

rough edit1958

director's cut1980

1980 Entertainm. Law Reporter 15 May 3/1 Merrick agreed to pay Hunt $150,000 in 10 weekly installments..with the final $50,000 payment to be made on delivery of the director's cut.

1995 i-D Aug. 95/1 The big news this month is that the director's cut of Blade Runner (Beyond Vision) is finally available on sell-through 13 years after it was first mangled by nervous studio execs.

2002 Empire Dec. 152/2 For DVD, not a ‘director's cut’ replacing the theatrical version, but an alternative extended edit.

Draft additions September 2018

director's chair n. originally U.S. a lightweight folding chair with legs crossed in an x-shape, armrests, and a seat and back typically made of canvas. [So called because chairs of this type are often used by film directors (along with other members of the cast and crew) on location.]

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > folding chair

beach chair1878

hammock chair1881

deckchair1884

camp-chair1885

Savonarola chair1887

Roorkee chair1905

safari chair1913

picnic chair1920

director's chair1922

Roorkee1936

transat1968

1922 Hardware World June 138/2 We are all familiar with the comfortable No. 35 arm chair that has been made for years by the Gold Medal Camp Furniture Co... Out on the coast the movie colonies call it the director's chair.

1931 San Mateo (Calif.) Times 10 June 3/5 (advt.) Director's Chair. Hardwood frame. Striped canvas.

1981 Times 4 Apr. 11/4 Among other bargains are director's chairs in natural or orange canvas at £9.95.

2001 S. Miller Stamp Artist's Project Bk. 87 Perfect for casual seating arrangements, a director's chair can be folded and stored in a closet or under a bed when not in use.

Draft additions September 2018

director of photography n. Film a person who oversees the work of the camera and lighting crews, and is responsible for creating and maintaining the overall visual style of a film; a cinematographer.Abbreviated DP, DOP.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming unit or team > [noun] > others involved in filming

director of photography1916

grip1918

continuity writer1921

script girl1922

gaffer1926

production manager1927

best boy1931

production assistant1932

continuity girl1933

titler1933

clapper-boy1937

AD1957

1916 Motography 8 Apr. 807/1 Designed by Cecil B. DeMille.., with the assistance of Alvin Wyckoff, director of photography.

1998 B. Hampe Making Videos for Money ii. ix. 140 Ask your director of photography how long it will take to set the lights and be ready to shoot.

2016 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 21 Dec. (Late Final ed.) c6 The colors are dark and dense (the director of photography, Roman Osin, also gave Joe Wright's ‘Pride & Prejudice’ its authentically mucky look).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	director
释义	directorn. Brit. /dᵻˈrɛktə/, /dʌɪˈrɛktə/, U.S. /dəˈrɛktər/, /daɪˈrɛktər/ Forms: Also Middle English–1600s directour, 1500s–1800s directer (1500s Scottish direkkare, direckar). Etymology: < Anglo-Norman directour = French directeur, < Latin dīrector, agent-noun < dīrigĕre* to direct. 1. a. One who or that which directs, rules, or guides; a guide, a conductor; ‘one that has authority over others; a superintendent; one that has the general management of a design or work’ (Johnson). director-general, a chief or supreme director, having under him directors or managers of departments. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > director mastereOE steerc897 ordainerc1443 director1477 rector1482 sayer1483 orderer1496 solicitera1530 temperator1591 ordinator1615 sternera1634 dirigent1756 chargé d'affaires1797 quarterback1931 1477 W. Caxton in Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (1877) lf. 73 Erle of Ryuyers.., Defendour and directour of the siege apostolique. 1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. i. vii. f. 19^v To be ledar, techar, and direckar of the same kirk. 1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 741 They use hir [the moon] as the directer of their festiuall daies. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. iii. 54 It cannot be, but nature hath some director of infinite knowledge to guide her. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. iv. §3. 268 The North starre is the most fixed directour of the Sea-man to his desired Port. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 77 in Justice Vindicated The husband is the director and ruler of his wife. 1746–7 J. Hervey Medit. (1818) 78 Whatever thou doest, consult them as thy directors. 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 467/1 In 1769 Mozart was appointed director of the archbishop of Salzburg's concerts. 1866 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. IX. xvi. 295 He was created director-general of the finances. 1880 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 412/2 The theatre was turned permanently into an opera-house..The director was Mr. Frederick Beale. 1890 ‘W. A. Wallace’ Only a Sister 86 Stable-master and director-in-general of everything. 1891 ‘S. C. Scrivener’ Our Fields & Cities 135 It is a better knowledge of the effect produced by inevitable ‘weather’ that the director of cultivation requires. b. spec. A member of a board appointed to direct or manage the affairs of a commercial corporation or company. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > non-manual worker > businessman > [noun] > director director1632 1632 (title) A remonstrance of the directors of the Netherlands East India Company..touching the bloudy proceedings against the English Merchants..at Amboyna. 1673 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 8 6113 He..is still one of the chief of the Court of Committees, which a foreigner would call Directors. 1697 London Gaz. No. 3303/3 (Bank of Eng.) A General Court will be held for the Election of Twenty four Directors. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 3. ¶1 I looked into the great Hall where the Bank is kept, and was not a little pleased to see the Directors, Secretaries, and Clerks. 1733 A. Pope Of Use of Riches 7 What made Directors cheat in South-Sea year? 1758 S. Johnson Idler 4 Nov. 241 I was hired in the family of an East India Director. 1825 W. Scott Jrnl. 13 Dec. (1939) 42 Went to the yearly court of the Edinburgh Assurance Company, to which I am one of those graceful and useless appendages, called Directors Extraordi[na]ry. 1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly I. vii. 127 Gabriel Cassilis..was a director of many companies. c. spec. A member of the French Directory of 1795–9: see directory n. 6. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [noun] > specifically in France > member of director1798 peer1848 1798 Anti-Jacobin 14 May 214/2 The French Directors Have thought the point so knotty. 1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 15/1 The executive power was entrusted to five directors..The directors had the management of the military force, of the finances, and of the home and foreign departments. d. Ecclesiastical (chiefly Roman Catholic Church). An ecclesiastic holding the position of spiritual adviser to some particular person or society. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > catechesis > [noun] > one who performs fatherOE catechizerc1449 mystagoguec1540 oracle1548 catechist1564 guru1613 director1671 swami1901 1671 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa i. xiii. 80 He will have great need of a Directour, if he can meet with an experienced one. 1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian ii. i. 26 He prates as if Kings had not Consciences, And none requir'd Directors but the Crowd. 1697 J. Woodward Acct. Relig. Societies London in Earnest Admon. Young Persons 225 That an Orthodox and pious Minister should be chosen by each Society, as the Director and Visiter of it. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. iv. 22 The parson of the parish, who was one of the executors, and had acted as ghostly director of the old man. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 648 Tillotson..as a spiritual director, had, at that time, immense authority. 1877 Daily News 25 Oct. 5/7 A director is not the same as a confessor..A confessor hears avowals of sin, a director is consulted in ‘cases of conscience’. †e. Music. = direct n. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun] > indication of first note of next page director1597 index1597 direct1654 mostra1724 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 20 It is called an Index or director: for looke in what place it standeth, in that place doth the first note of the next verse stand. 1667 C. Simpson Compend. Pract. Musick 22 This mark ? is set to direct us where the first Note of the next five Lines doth stand, and is therefore called a Directer. f. A small letter inserted by the scribe for the direction of the illuminator in the space left for an illuminated initial. ΚΠ 1881 W. Blades Life & Typogr. W. Caxton (1882) 230 Space is left at the beginning of the chapters with a director, for the insertion of 2 to 5-line initials. g. One who directs a film or play, etc. (see direct v. 5c). Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > people concerned with theatrical productions > [noun] > director or producer play-dresser1602 acting manager1733 metteur en scène1851 producer1891 director1911 actor-producer1961 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming unit or team > [noun] > producer or director art director1871 producer1891 director1911 production director1915 actor-producer1927 1911 Moving Picture World 22 July 108/2 The director explains to the players the action of a..scene. 1914 R. Grau Theatre of Sci. 362 The world-famous director, D. W. Griffith. 1915 E. A. Dench Making Movies i. 1 Good actors, authors and photographers are indispensable, but unless they are guided by a talented director, results will be disappointing. 1933 Punch 30 Aug. 234/2 Mr. Herbert Wilcox, its [sc. the film's] director, has skilfully overcome the difficulties of adaptation. 1938 W. S. Maugham Summing Up 107 The director shouts ‘curtain up’. 1938 W. S. Maugham Summing Up 107 I use the American word director rather than the English one, producer, because I think it better describes what should be the function of the person in question. 1944 Sunday Times 16 Jan. 2/6 In the meantime I pity the poor director, as we are beginning to call the producer. 1963 Listener 28 Feb. 392/3 BBC television has recently been..holding on to the directorial talent it has itself developed and at the same time luring in the best directors from independent television. †2. The dedicator of a book or the like. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1553 Douglas' Æneis (1710) 481 Here The Direkkare and Translatare of this Buke direkkis it. 3. a. One who or that which causes something to take a particular direction. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > [noun] > giving direction towards a mark > that which director1646 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. ii. 62 [The] Needle.. will not hang parallel, but decline at the north extreme, and at that part will first salute its Director . View more context for this quotation †b. One who aims a missile. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > wielder or director of weapon guidec1381 handler1598 director1632 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vii. 300 The best director may mistake his ayme. c. Surgery. A hollow or grooved instrument for directing the course of a knife or scissors in making an incision. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > guiding or directing instruments director1667 directory1693 staff1699 obturator1862 1667 R. Lower in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 544 Take it [the Incision-knife] out, and put in a Director, or a small Quill made like it. 1767 B. Gooch Pract. Treat. Wounds I. 383 Carefully introduce a very small director, to avoid injuring the intestines. 1854 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 278/1 Director..grooved instrument for guiding a bistoury, etc., in certain operations. d. ‘A metallic rod in a non-conducting handle connected with one pole of a galvanic battery, for the purpose of transmitting the current to a part of the body.’ New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1883. ΚΠ 1795 T. Cavallo Compl. Treat. Electr. (ed. 4) II. 122 Each of these instruments, justly called directors, consists of a knobbed brass wire. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 267 The other extremities of the wires must be fastened to the wires of the instruments YZ, which are called directors. 1846 J. Joyce Sci. Dialogues xv. 394 (Electricity). e. An apparatus for directing a torpedo. ΚΠ 1889 C. Sleeman Torpedoes (ed. 2) 252 The Torpedo director..consists of a brass circular casting..faced out and graduated. f. Perspective. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 964 Director Of An Original Line, the straight line passing through the directing point and the eye of a spectator. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 964 Director Of The Eye, the intersection of the plane with the directing plane perpendicular to the original plane and that of the picture, and hence also perpendicular to the directing and vanishing planes. g. Geometry. = director-circle n. at Compounds: see below and cf. directrix n. 2(b). ΚΠ 1852 Gaskin Geom. Constr. Conic Sect. Pref. 6 There are several remarkable properties of this locus, which, as far as the author is aware, have not been hitherto noticed, and he has found it convenient to denominate it the ‘director’ of the conic section, which in the case of the parabola coincides with the directrix. Compounds director-circle n. (of a conic) the locus of intersection of tangents at right angles to each other; so also director-sphere (of a surface of the second degree).Director-circle is also sometimes used to denote the circle described about a focus of an ellipse or hyperbola with radius = major axis. See Taylor Anc. & Mod. Geom. of Conics (1881) 90. (H. T. Gerrans.) ΚΠ 1867 R. Townsend in Q. Jrnl. Math. VIII. 11 For the paraboloid..the director sphere opens out into a plane. 1882 Daily News 8 June 5/8 Equation to the Director Circle of a Conic, [by] Professor Wolstenholme. director-plane n. a fixed plane used in describing a surface, analogous to the line called a directrix n. ΚΠ 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Directer plane. 1867 R. Townsend in Q. Jrnl. Math. VIII. 11 The director plane of the paraboloid. 1876 Catal. Special Loan Coll. Sci. Apparatus S. Kensington Mus. §99 The director planes..of these conoïds are at right angles to one another. director-tube n. = sense 3e. ΚΠ 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Mar. 5/1 Director tube..is the telescopic apparatus through which aim is taken at the enemy's vessel, and by means of which the torpedo is fired. Draft additions December 2004 director's cut n. Film (originally U.S.) the version of a film submitted by its director, which is then usually re-edited by the studio before release; (now) spec. a version of a film reflecting the director's intentions, released after the original studio version. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > printing > [noun] > a print > edited versions cut1922 rough cut1922 fine cut1952 rough edit1958 director's cut1980 1980 Entertainm. Law Reporter 15 May 3/1 Merrick agreed to pay Hunt $150,000 in 10 weekly installments..with the final $50,000 payment to be made on delivery of the director's cut. 1995 i-D Aug. 95/1 The big news this month is that the director's cut of Blade Runner (Beyond Vision) is finally available on sell-through 13 years after it was first mangled by nervous studio execs. 2002 Empire Dec. 152/2 For DVD, not a ‘director's cut’ replacing the theatrical version, but an alternative extended edit. Draft additions September 2018 director's chair n. originally U.S. a lightweight folding chair with legs crossed in an x-shape, armrests, and a seat and back typically made of canvas. [So called because chairs of this type are often used by film directors (along with other members of the cast and crew) on location.] ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > folding chair beach chair1878 hammock chair1881 deckchair1884 camp-chair1885 Savonarola chair1887 Roorkee chair1905 safari chair1913 picnic chair1920 director's chair1922 Roorkee1936 transat1968 1922 Hardware World June 138/2 We are all familiar with the comfortable No. 35 arm chair that has been made for years by the Gold Medal Camp Furniture Co... Out on the coast the movie colonies call it the director's chair. 1931 San Mateo (Calif.) Times 10 June 3/5 (advt.) Director's Chair. Hardwood frame. Striped canvas. 1981 Times 4 Apr. 11/4 Among other bargains are director's chairs in natural or orange canvas at £9.95. 2001 S. Miller Stamp Artist's Project Bk. 87 Perfect for casual seating arrangements, a director's chair can be folded and stored in a closet or under a bed when not in use. Draft additions September 2018 director of photography n. Film a person who oversees the work of the camera and lighting crews, and is responsible for creating and maintaining the overall visual style of a film; a cinematographer.Abbreviated DP, DOP. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming unit or team > [noun] > others involved in filming director of photography1916 grip1918 continuity writer1921 script girl1922 gaffer1926 production manager1927 best boy1931 production assistant1932 continuity girl1933 titler1933 clapper-boy1937 AD1957 1916 Motography 8 Apr. 807/1 Designed by Cecil B. DeMille.., with the assistance of Alvin Wyckoff, director of photography. 1998 B. Hampe Making Videos for Money ii. ix. 140 Ask your director of photography how long it will take to set the lights and be ready to shoot. 2016 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 21 Dec. (Late Final ed.) c6 The colors are dark and dense (the director of photography, Roman Osin, also gave Joe Wright's ‘Pride & Prejudice’ its authentically mucky look). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). directorv. Brit. /dᵻˈrɛktə/, /dʌɪˈrɛktə/, U.S. /dəˈrɛktər/, /daɪˈrɛktər/ Etymology: < director n. transitive. To manage as a director.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > manage (mine) director1892 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 May 2/1 Another typical mine..the Langlaagte, which is directored by Mr. G. B——. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1477v.1892
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