# director

Pronunciation: US say "di-REK-tur" /dɪˈɹɛktɚ/; UK say "di-REK-tuh" /dɪˈɹɛktə(ɹ)/

## Noun

1. The person responsible for managing a department, project, or production such as a film or play.
   - Simple: A person who is in charge of a group, project, or show and tells others what to do.
   - _The film's director spent months reviewing each scene before its release._
   - _As director of engineering, he oversaw a team of forty._
2. A member of a company's board of directors, the group that oversees the organization's management.
   - Simple: A person chosen to help run a company as part of a group that makes big decisions.
   - _The company appointed two new directors to strengthen its board._
   - _As a director on the company's board, she votes on major decisions such as mergers and the chief executive's pay._
3. Something that guides, controls, or sets the direction of another thing.
   - Simple: A thing that guides or points something the right way.
   - _In her view, habit, not reason, is the true director of most of our daily choices._
   - _Hunger, more than any instinct for home, was the director of the herd's long journey south._
4. A spiritual counselor or confessor who provides moral and religious guidance to another person.
   - Simple: A person who gives someone spiritual advice and guidance, often in a religious setting.
   - _He chose a Jesuit priest as his spiritual director._
   - _Many in the abbey sought the elderly nun as their director._

## Other meanings

- (noun) In gunnery, a fire-control device that tracks a moving target and calculates or sends aiming data to the guns.
- (noun) One of the elements making up a Yagi–Uda antenna, set in front of the driven element.
- (noun) The common axis of symmetry along which the molecules of a liquid crystal are aligned.

## Origin

The word looks like direct plus -or, but English actually took it from Middle French directeur and also from dīrēctor, the Late Latin word behind directeur, itself based on Latin dīrēctus.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/director (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).