director

1 someone who controls resources and expenditures [syn: manager, managing director]

2 member of a board of directors

3 someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show [syn: theater director, theatre director]

4 the person who leads a musical group [syn: conductor, music director]

English

Noun

1. One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department (e.g., director of engineering), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., film director).
2. A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.
3. The common axis of symmetry of the molecules of a liquid crystal.

Translations

Spanish

Noun

1. director.

Related terms

• directora
• dirección
• dirigir

Director may refer to:

The arts

• Animation director
• Artistic director, a theatre management position
• Casting director
• Choral director
• Creative director
• Festival director
• Film director, the person responsible for orchestrating the artistic and dramatic aspects of a film
• Game director, the person in charge of significant creative aspects of a video game
• Museum director, see curator
• Music director
• Music video director, a film director that specializes in supervising the filming and editing of music videos
• Technical director, the most senior technical person within a theatrical company or television studio
• Television director, a person who directs the activities involved in making a television episode
• Theatre director, or more specific such as Opera director

Media

• Director (band), an Irish rock band from Malahide
• Director (album), an album by Avant
• The Director (film), an Australian film
• The Director, a novel by Henry Denker

Business

• Board of directors, a group of managers of a company
• Director-general
• Executive director
• Finance director, or Chief financial officer
• Managing director
• Non-executive director
• Director may also be the title of a mid-level manager in a business organization

Other

• a member or sole head of a directorate
• Director (colonial), head of chartered company's colonial administration in a territory
• Director (education), head of a university or other educational body
• Director (Military), a device that continuously calculates firing data
• director (liquid crystal), the spatial and temporal average of the orientation of the long molecular axis within a small volume element of liquid crystal. The director coincides with the local optical axis (see: order parameter).
• Funeral director, someone involved in the business of funeral rites
• Tournament director, for sporting events
• Adobe Director, multimedia authoring software
• Director string, a way of tracking free variables in computation.

See also

• Director telephone system, a principal component of which is a "director"
• Director exchange, alternative search term for above entry
• Social style, one of which is director.
• Osama bin Laden, one of whose nicknames is "The Director"

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