DIRECTORY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

An alphabetical list of names and addresses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("directory" is a kind of...):

book of facts; reference; reference book; reference work (a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "directory"):

phone book; phonebook; telephone book; telephone directory (a directory containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers and their telephone numbers)

blue book (a register of persons who are socially prominent)

Meaning:

(computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("directory" is a kind of...):

list; listing (a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics))

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "directory"):

subdirectory ((computer science) a directory that is listed in another directory)