Director

Noun

 * 1) One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (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.

Adjectives
capable; painstaking; regional; financial; shadowy; honorable.

Thesaurus
Kapellmeister, MC, administrator, auteur, ballyhoo man, band leader, band major, bandmaster, banker, barker, baron, big boss, big businessman, big cheese, boss, business leader, businessman, callboy, captain, captain of industry, castellan, chairman, chatelain, chatelaine, chief, cicerone, commandant, commander, conductor, costume designer, costumer, costumier, drum major, emcee, enterpriser, entrepreneur, equestrian director, executive, exhibitor, financier, foreman, gaffer, governor, guide, head, headman, helmsman, impresario, industrialist, intendant, king, kingpin, leader, little businessman, maestro, magnate, makeup man, man of commerce, manager, master, master of ceremonies, number one, official, orchestra leader, overseer, pilot, playreader, president, principal, producer, prompter, ringmaster, ruler, scenewright, set designer, showman, skipper, spieler, stage director, stage manager, steersman, superintendent, supervisor, symphonic conductor, theater man, theatrician, ticket collector, top dog, top executive, tycoon, usher, usherer, usherette, vice-president

Etymology
, influenced by directorius:

Translations

 * Arabic: ,
 * Bulgarian: ръководител,,  режисьор
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 經理, 经理,  ,  ,   ,  ,  ,  指挥者
 * Croatian: upravitelj(-ica), ravnatelj(-ica), redatelj(-ica) ("ica" is added for females)
 * Czech: ředitel, režisér (in film)
 * Dutch:, regisseur
 * Esperanto: direktoro, reĝisoro
 * Finnish: johtaja, ohjaaja (film director)
 * French: ,
 * German: Regisseur, Regisseurin (female director)
 * Greek:,  ,  ,


 * Hebrew: מנהל (menahel), מנהלת (menahelet) (manager); במאי (bamai) , במאית (bamayt)  (in cinema or theater)
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: Leikstjóri
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: director, directori, (film) regizor, regizori
 * Russian:,  ,
 * Serbian: reditelj, zborovodja (in a choir)
 * Slovak: riaditeľ
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish: yönetmen
 * Volapük: dilekan

Anagrams

 * creditor

Noun

 * 1) director

Related terms

 * directora
 * dirección
 * dirigir