Need another word that means the same as “directory”? Find 8 synonyms and 30 related words for “directory” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Directory” are: index, list, listing, register, catalogue, record, archive, inventory
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “directory” as a noun can have the following definitions:
archive | A depository containing historical records and documents. A section of archive film. |
catalogue | A publication containing details of items for sale, especially one produced by a mail-order company. A computerized library catalogue. |
index | A pointer on an instrument, showing a quantity, a position on a scale, etc. The hundred shares index closed down 9 3. |
inventory | (accounting) the value of a firm’s current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods. An inventory may be necessary to see if anything is missing. |
list | A formal structure analogous to a list by which items of data can be stored or processed in a definite order. The ship developed a list to starboard. |
listing | The drawing up of a list. |
record | Anything such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph providing permanent evidence of or information about past events. Record profits. |
register | A cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions used in shops to add up the bill. A membership register. |
annotate | Provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases. The scholar annotated the early edition of a famous novel. |
bookmark | A marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader’s place. Fans will want to bookmark this site. |
brochure | A small book or magazine containing pictures and information about a product or service. A holiday brochure. |
checklist | A list of items required, things to be done, or points to be considered, used as a reminder. |
compile | Accumulate (a specified score. The local authority must compile a list of the names and addresses of taxpayers. |
data | Things known or assumed as facts, making the basis of reasoning or calculation. There is very little data available. |
datum | A fixed starting point of a scale or operation. An accurate datum is formed by which other machining operations can be carried out. |
descriptive | Serving to describe or inform or characterized by description. The text contains some good descriptive passages. |
desktop | The working area of a computer screen regarded as a representation of a notional desktop and containing icons representing items such as files. You can now have multiple overlapping windows on the desktop. |
disk | Sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove. The moon s disk hung in a cloudless sky. |
dossier | A collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person’s record. We have a dossier on him. |
edition | A particular version of a text maintained by regular revision. He read it in yesterday s edition of the Times. |
file | File a formal charge against. File for divorce. |
folder | A folded leaflet or a booklet made of folded sheets of paper. |
guide | Use as a guide. They had the lights to guide on. |
handbook | A concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location. A handbook of poisonous plants. |
index | Link the value of prices wages or other payments automatically to the value of a price index. The Supreme Soviet passed legislation indexing wages to prices. |
information | In information theory a mathematical quantity expressing the probability of occurrence of a particular sequence of symbols impulses etc as against that of alternative sequences. Genetically transmitted information. |
instructions | A manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it. |
item | Also Philip Guedalla used when listing or enumerating items. An item of clothing. |
leaflet | Distribute leaflets to people or an area. Tourists visiting the area are being leafleted. |
listing | A database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics. |
pamphlet | Distribute pamphlets to. He published a spate of pamphlets on the subjects about which he felt strongly. |
peruse | Examine carefully or at length. Laura perused a Caravaggio. |
prospectus | A formal written offer to sell securities (filed with the SEC) that sets forth a plan for a (proposed) business enterprise. A prospectus should contain the facts that an investor needs to make an informed decision. |
register | A cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions used in shops to add up the bill. At the store s bridal registry single people can register for gifts even if they are not getting married. |
sampling | Measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form. Routine river sampling is carried out according to a schedule. |
studying | Reading carefully with intent to remember. |
text | A textbook. Too much concentration on set texts can turn pupils against reading. |
transcribe | Arrange (a piece of music) for a different instrument, voice, or group of these. Polymerases transcribe it into a long RNA molecule. |
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