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I don't look at paying $8 billion for the directories business of Qwest as the thing that would really excite me... I'm looking at a connection to the human being where it's interesting.
Craig McCaw

Meaning of "directories" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DIRECTORIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DIRECTORIES

noun
adjective
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pronoun
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conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Directories is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DIRECTORIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Directory

Directory may refer to: ▪ Directory, or folder, a file system structure in which to store computer files ▪ Directory service, a software application for organizing information about a computer network's users and resources ▪ Directory, a small group of influential states that is said to 'direct' the agenda ▪ French Directory, the government in revolutionary France from 1795 to 1799 ▪ Business directory, a listing of information about suppliers and manufacturers ▪ Telephone directory, a book which allows telephone numbers to be found given the subscriber's name ▪ Web directory, an organized collection of links to websites...

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DIRECTORIES

director
director general
director of admissions
Director of Education
director of music
Director of Public Prosecutions
director of studies
director-general
director´s chair
director´s cut
directorate
directorial
directorially
directorship
directory
directory assistance
directory enquiries
directory inquiries
directress
directrice

WORDS THAT END LIKE DIRECTORIES

accessories
advisories
calories
categories
countries
dormitories
factories
French Southern and Antarctic Territories
glories
histories
inventories
laboratories
memories
Northwest Territories
repositories
stories
territories
theories
Tories
trajectories
victories

Synonyms and antonyms of directories in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DIRECTORIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «directories» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of directories

Translation of «directories» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DIRECTORIES

Find out the translation of directories to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of directories from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «directories» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

目录
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

directorios
570 millions of speakers

English

directories
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

निर्देशिका
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الدلائل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

каталоги
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

diretórios
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ডিরেক্টরি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

répertoires
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Direktori
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verzeichnisse
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ディレクトリ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

디렉토리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Direktori
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thư mục
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அடைவுகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निर्देशिका
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dizinleri
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

directory
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

katalogi
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

каталоги
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

directoare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καταλόγους
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dopgehou
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kataloger
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kataloger
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of directories

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DIRECTORIES»

The term «directories» is very widely used and occupies the 10.249 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DIRECTORIES» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about directories

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3 QUOTES WITH «DIRECTORIES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word directories.
1
Craig McCaw
I don't look at paying $8 billion for the directories business of Qwest as the thing that would really excite me... I'm looking at a connection to the human being where it's interesting.
2
John Rhys-Davies
We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and put them in the Hollywood telephone directory and stacked those telephone directories up, we'd have a pile of telephone directories 70 miles high.
3
John Sununu
Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIRECTORIES»

Discover the use of directories in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to directories and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Directories for the City of Charleston, South Carolina: For ...
Given by Eugene Edge III.
James William Hagy, 1998
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Charleston, South Carolina City Directories: For the Years ...
Given by Eugene Edge III.
James William Hagy, 1996
3
Barry County Directories
this, they have left no stone unturned which would assist in making the book what the prospectus represented it would be, besides using every precaution to avoid errors in the matter promised. The book purports to contain the name of every ...
4
International business and trade directories
Completely updated, the Third Edition of International Business and Trade Directories contains more than 10,000 entries, over 2,000 more than the last edition, making this directory the most comprehensive resource of the world's business ...
Grey House Publishing, Richard Gottlieb, 2004
5
Internet directories: how to build and manage applications ...
This practical guide covers each leading Internet directory services technology, their benefits, and what it takes to directory-enable your applications with them.
Bruce Greenblatt, 2001
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Network World
BY AMIR HUDDA, ENTEVO Anecdotal data suggests that as many as 180 directories are used within a typical organization, only a dozen or so of which are really important. Effectively managing these directories has become a challenge  ...
7
Practical Practice Reading: Directories & Guides
INTRODUCTION Among the essential life skills young people must acquire to become independent and confident is the ability to use directories and guides. This book provides instructions and practice in the use of a telephone directory, ...
Remedia Publications
8
Guide to Computer Program Directories
. Computer وهو Guide Division لإتنهاوهماهمتن Information Technology and Sciences Computer for Institute Standards of Bureau National هذي» عقل Washington, إس» ٠لك هكه٨ by (Compiled لإ مم or so" هلا اه نه ٥ . لسل ممتع ٠ i' لهن ا ت نئئتتا هل اه. ي ه .
‎1977
9
Linux Cookbook 2nd Edition:
Files and Directories 6.2 Changing Directories 6.4 Copying Files and Directories 8.3.4 Finding the Largest Directories 8.3.3 Finding the Smallest Directories 6.3 Listing Directories 6.3.4 Listing Hidden Files 6.3.5 Listing Directories in Color ...
CompX Digital
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The Everything Guide to Online Genealogy: A complete ...
phone directories, a listing of an area's residents. They differ, however, in that they predate the invention of the telephone and often provide additional information about the listed individuals, such as the street address, place of employment, ...
Kimberly Powell, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIRECTORIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term directories is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Miami Digital Directories Merge Art, Architecture And Industry …
Aventura Mall, Miami's premier fashion destination, recently introduced seven new interactive, digital directories throughout the shopping ... «Live Trading News, Jul 15»
2
Daily API RoundUp: John Deere, Flask, Dropoff, Twitter Node.js …
Every day, the ProgrammableWeb team is busy, updating its three primary directories for APIs, clients (language-specific libraries or SDKs for ... «ProgrammableWeb, Jul 15»
3
Birketts hires Penningtons Manches partner | Insider Media
... law firms and the employment team is consistently rated in the top bandings in the leading legal directories across the East Anglian region. «Insider Media, Jul 15»
4
Link Building: No Longer About Manipulation - Search Engine Land
Directories developed a stigma during the Pre-Penguin era of spam. During that time, many directories were simply link farms that would link ... «Search Engine Land, Jul 15»
5
Amazon Unveils Cloud Drive Apps
The Cloud Drive apps allow users to view files stored with Amazon and navigate through directories, InformationWeek noted. Users can ... «MSPmentor, Jul 15»
6
Lawsuits, Adding Enrollees Among ACA's Challenges
On a related note, consumers are still struggling with inaccurate and out-of-date physician directories, said Kevin Lucia, JD, MPH, project ... «MedPage Today, Jul 15»
7
Auditor's Report Shows 'Symbiotic Relationship' in Medi-Cal …
The audit found multiple inaccuracies in provider directories and said DHCS can't actually determine if provider networks are adequate ... «Kitsap Sun, Jul 15»
8
Hacking Team's oppressive regimes customer list revealed in hack
Around 400GB of data has been uploaded to BitTorrent -- a haul that includes directories, audio recordings, emails and source code. «Wired.co.uk, Jul 15»
9
Dex Media sells Martinsburg building as part of downsizing
The building is a warehouse for yellow page directories produced by the company. It's located on 12 acres in the Mid-Atlantic Industrial Park. «WOWK, Jul 15»
10
Commons kiosks costs being ironed out
The four interactive kiosks are computerized directories of businesses throughout the city and county. The alliance will pay for maintenance, ... «Ithaca Journal, Jul 15»

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