单词 | director |
释义 | director (once / 83 pages) n A director is a person who is in charge of something important. The advertising director for a large company is the head of the department that places ads in newspapers and on TV. Businesses have directors, and movies and plays also have directors, who oversee the way the actors deliver their lines and interpret the script. An orchestra's conductor can also be called a "musical director," and much like a film director, she guides the musicians and supervises their performance. The Latin root, dirigere, means "set straight." WORD FAMILYdirector: directors, directorship+/direct: directed, directest, directing, directive, directly, directness, director, directs, indirect, misdirect, redirect/directed: self-directed, undirected/directive: directively, directiveness, directives, directivity/directorship: directorships/indirect: indirectly, indirectness/misdirect: misdirected, misdirecting, misdirection, misdirects/misdirection: misdirections/redirect: redirected, redirecting, redirects USAGE EXAMPLESOn Monday, Jackson, Brown and strategy director Paul DePodesta spent 35 minutes doing their autopsy on a season they can’t wait to forget. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Banning Ranch Conservancy Executive Director Steve Ray said his group was always prepared for the lawsuit to reach the state's highest court. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) Parminder Singh, the former managing director for Twitter in India and the Middle East, left the company in early November. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) 1n someone who controls resources and expenditures Syn|Hypo|Hyper manager, managing director bank manager manager of a branch office of a bank district managera manager who supervises the sales activity for a district manageressa woman manager administrator, decision maker someone who administers a business 2n someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper theater director, theatre director Harley Granville-Barker English actor and dramatist and critic and director noted for his productions of Shakespearean plays (1877-1946) Elia KazanjoglousUnited States stage and screen director (born in Turkey) and believer in method acting (1909-2003) Konstantin Sergeyevich StanislavskyRussian actor and theater director who trained his actors to emphasize the psychological motivation of their roles (1863-1938) stage director someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a stage show art directorthe director in charge of the artistic features of a theatrical production (costumes and scenery and lighting) supervisor one who supervises or has charge and direction of 3n the person who directs the making of a film Syn|Exp|Hyper film director Ingmar Bergman Swedish film director who used heavy symbolism and explored the psychology of the characters (born 1918) Luis BunuelSpanish film director (1900-1983) Alfred Joseph HitchcockEnglish film director noted for his skill in creating suspense (1899-1980) Israel StrassbergUnited States actor and film director (born in Austria) who was a leader in developing method acting in the United States (1901-1982) film maker, film producer, filmmaker, movie maker a producer of motion pictures 4n the person who leads a musical group Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper conductor, music director Leonard Bernstein United States conductor and composer (1918-1990) Lord Britten of Aldeburghmajor English composer of the 20th century; noted for his operas (1913-1976) Arthur Fiedlerpopular United States conductor (1894-1979) Paul HindemithGerman neoclassical composer and conductor who believed that music should have a social purpose (1895-1963) Sergei Aleksandrovich KoussevitzkyUnited States conductor (born in Russia) who was noted for performing the works of contemporary composers (1874-1951) Leonard Constant LambertEnglish composer and conductor (1905-1951) Gustav MahlerAustrian composer and conductor (1860-1911) Eugene OrmandyUnited States conductor (born in Hungary) (1899-1985) Seiji OzawaUnited States conductor (born in Japan in 1935) Leopold Antoni Stanislaw StokowskiUnited States conductor (born in Britain) (1882-1977) George SzellUnited States conductor (born in Hungary) (1897-1970) Arturo ToscaniniItalian conductor of many orchestras worldwide (1867-1957) Bruno WalterGerman conductor (1876-1962) Baron Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von WeberGerman conductor and composer of romantic operas (1786-1826) Sir Henry Joseph WoodEnglish conductor (1869-1944) Benjamin David GoodmanUnited States clarinetist who in 1934 formed a big band (including black as well as white musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (1909-1986) Woodrow Charles HermanUnited States jazz musician and bandleader (1913-1987) Alton Glenn MillerUnited States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944) Arthur Jacob ArshawskyUnited States clarinetist and leader of a swing band (1910-2004) John Philip Sousaa United States bandmaster and composer of military marches (1854-1932) bandleader the leader of a dance band bandmasterthe conductor of a band drum majorthe leader of a marching band or drum corps drum majorette, majorettea female drum major musician artist who composes or conducts music as a profession 5n member of a board of directors Hyper committee member a member of a committee |
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