What's the difference between director and superintendent?

Director


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent.
  • (n.) One of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation; as, the directors of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company.
  • (n.) A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action.
  • (n.) A slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
  • (2) Former Regional director for Latin American Caribbean and Middle East, Save the Children.
  • (3) Prior to joining JOE Media, Will was chief commercial officer at Dazed Group, where he also sat on the board of directors.
  • (4) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
  • (5) All staff can participate in the plan but payouts for directors are capped at £3,000.
  • (6) Paul Johnson, the IFS director, said: “Osborne’s new fiscal charter is much more constraining than his previous fiscal rules.
  • (7) It felt like my very existence was being denied,” said Hahn Chae-yoon, executive director of Beyond the Rainbow Foundation.
  • (8) The committee is chaired by John Thompson, the board's lead independent director, and includes Microsoft founder and chairman, Bill Gates, as well as other board members Chuck Noski and Steve Luczo.
  • (9) Just a few months ago, a director-level position job for Sears was floated by me from the department store chain's headquarters in Chicago.
  • (10) FBI assistant director David Bowdich said that Syed Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 27, were radicalized long before they went on a rampage at a community center in southern California last Wednesday, but would not specify whether he meant months or years.
  • (11) I have to do my best.” The Leeds sporting director Nicola Salerno told the news conference that it was unlikely there would be new permanent signings in the January transfer window, but that there would be the possibility for loan deals.
  • (12) She then spent five years as director of mission and pastoral studies at Cranmer Hall.
  • (13) We continue to work closely with Pacific partner countries and regional organisations to build resilience and manage the impacts of climate change on economic development.” Aluka Rakin, director of Youth to Youth in Health in Majuro, said the organisation’s clinic is falling apart.
  • (14) Photograph: David Grayson David Grayson, director, The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University David became professor of corporate responsibility and director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield School of Management, in April 2007, after a 30 year career as a social entrepreneur and campaigner for responsible business, diversity, and small business development.
  • (15) Sir James Crosby, the ITV senior independent non-executive director, explained why the board had opted to retain Grade's services for an extra year: "It was the unanimous view of ITV's independent non-executive directors that it would be in the best interests of the company and its shareholders to ask Michael to extend his time as executive chairman.
  • (16) The BBA statistics director, David Dooks, said: "It was no surprise to see the January mortgage figures falling back from December, when transactions were being pushed through to beat the end of stamp duty relief.
  • (17) The whole film is primarily shown from the character's perspective, so 70% of the process involved working with the director of photography [Maxime Alexandre].
  • (18) "Today a federal district court put up a roadblock on a path constructed by 21 federal court rulings over the last year – a path that inevitably leads to nationwide marriage equality," said Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign.
  • (19) If the physician's office laboratory is not subject to regulations, the physician-director should personally direct the operation of his or her laboratory and keep abreast of the latest developments in laboratory medicine applicable to the specific areas of testing performed.
  • (20) "It is very easy to see somebody get killed over this issue," Marijuana Industry Group Director Michael Elliott testified last month.

Superintendent


Definition:

  • (a.) Overseeing; superintending.
  • (n.) One who has the oversight and charge of some place, institution, or organization, affairs, etc., with the power of direction; as, the superintendent of an almshouse; the superintendent of public works.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ripa can be used with approval from an officer of superintendant level or above, and does not require the police to disclose their intentions to snoop on journalists.
  • (2) Elizabeth McCaul, CEO of Promontory Europe and former New York Superintendent of Banks, had been asked to act as a special adviser, together with the firm's chief operating officer, Raffaele Cosimo.
  • (3) However, Superintendent Garry McCarthy told the Chicago SunTimes that the tit-for-tat insult trading on social media was ill-advised .
  • (4) Detective Superintendent, Metropolitan Police Service.
  • (5) In fact it was led by Detective Superintendent Richard Chitty (who died in 1983).
  • (6) The first Berlin specialist was a Dr. Jüngling, a pupil of Mayrhofer, at the "Friedrichshain Hospital", the first medical superintendents were appointed in 1956.
  • (7) The results of the study provide practical information, ideas and considerations for administrators, curriculum coordinators, superintendents and other responsible for residential staff development.
  • (8) It provides a measure of relief and reassurance.” Five of the students who had been under quarantine or monitoring returned to school on Monday, and the remaining students will be back in school by Tuesday, Dallas Independent School District superintendent Mike Miles said Monday.
  • (9) Kavanagh defended Chief Superintendent Sandra Looby, the Tottenham police chief who has been criticised in the media for reportedly flying to Florida on Saturday, just before the rioting broke out.
  • (10) Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of New York's department of financial services, said last month that he intends to introduce regulation for bitcoins later this year, making New York the first state to do so.
  • (11) Despite having sacked the police superintendent , Garry McCarthy, on Monday and ordered the formation of a taskforce into police accountability, questions continue to swirl about what Emanuel knew, and when he knew it – questions that at best raise doubts about his grip over his own city and at worst threaten to impugn his integrity.
  • (12) He said doctors should be allowed to prescribe nevirapine in consultation with hospital superintendents.
  • (13) Savile had keys to the high-security hospital, accommodation and unrestricted access due to his relationship with the medical superintendent who hoped his fame would improve public perception of the hospital.
  • (14) At that time there were nine wolves still left on the island, and Isle Royale National Park Superintendent Phyllis Green said: “The decision is not to intervene as long as there is a breeding population.” Regent Honeyeater breeding program boosts population of endangered bird Read more In just one year, that “breeding population” is all but extinct.
  • (15) She is shellshocked, wearing a neck-brace while facing our old friends DS Arnott (played by Martin Compston) and superintendent Hastings (Adrian Dunbar).
  • (16) Dr Sudha Dev Kota, the medical superintendent at the hospital, said the seven doctors at the small facility housed in bare brick buildings had treated more than 200 people since Saturday.
  • (17) Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said the gunmen opened fire on the group in retaliation for an earlier shooting in which one of them was slightly wounded.
  • (18) At the end of the aborted trial, the Met's Detective Chief Superintendent Hamish Campbell expressed his regrets: "This current investigation has identified, ever more clearly, how the initial inquiry failed the family and wider public.
  • (19) The constitutional role of the law officers is to superintend the CPS.
  • (20) Chief Superintendent Alan McCrum said: "Last night we saw a number of people on the streets who were intent on engaging in violence.