What's the difference between directory and people?

Directory


Definition:

  • (a.) Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
  • (n.) A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book.
  • (n.) A book containing the names and residences of the inhabitants of any place, or of classes of them; an address book; as, a business directory.
  • (n.) A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic.
  • (n.) Direction; guide.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The system has been successfully used for 18 months to create directories for a teaching file, for presentations, and for clinical research.
  • (2) Ellen Page is to make her directorial debut with Miss Stevens, starring Anna Faris as a teacher chaperoning a mob of high school students to a state drama competition.
  • (3) Anti-radicalisation is the whole community’s responsibility to deal with, not just the Muslim community.” Other critics point to provisions in the funding deed for the directory that allow the department to disclose confidential information about participants “to the responsible minister or prime minister”, or to a parliamentary committee.
  • (4) Patients admitted for the first AMI at 2 hospitals in Fukuoka City were aged 40 to 69 years, and control subjects were recruited based on the telephone directory of the city.
  • (5) On the basis of these findings, we conclude that PTH has the directory vasodepressive action and the effect of augmentation of the left ventricular contractile force.
  • (6) A computer-formatted directory was produced, with access via geographic location, personal name, organizational name, and keyword.
  • (7) You can find customer testimonials at online directory Allagents.co.uk .
  • (8) The resulting directory, published in July 1988, lists 494 programs involving 84 countries: 319 in medicine, 44 in dentistry, 30 in pharmacy, and 101 in public health.
  • (9) The Physician's Desk Reference and the United States Pharmacopeia Drug Information directory contain numerous warnings of potential interactions between topical glaucoma medications and systemically administered drugs.
  • (10) Jay Kennedy is head of policy at the Directory of Social Change This content is brought to you by Guardian Professional.
  • (11) It was here – "possibly in this very seat" – that his father made the fateful decision to watch his son's writing and directorial debut, a 2009 short called What Will Survive of Us , unaware that this Todd Solondz-inspired work was largely concerned with the topic of anal sex.
  • (12) Using another sample of death certificates, comparisons of the information for 322 decedents with city directory data produced similar results.
  • (13) Ninety-two percent of the respondents indicated a need for reviews of films and videotapes pertinent to occupational therapy, either in a directory--or a directory, with monthly reviews of new materials in the Occupational Therapy Newspaper or AJOT.
  • (14) The helpline, which gets one third of its funding from government and the rest from the finance industry, doesn't advertise its services but is listed in telephone directories.
  • (15) But the internal directory lists her as reporting directly to the chief financial officer, Tom Szkutak, not to Bezos.
  • (16) Systematic random sampling was used, and 1 out of 25 phone numbers were selected from the county telephone directory.
  • (17) I now have a pretty comprehensive mental directory of the helpful pharmacists and the unhelpful pharmacists in central London .
  • (18) An upgrade is required for the online and catalogue Directory business, as Next admits.
  • (19) Members of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists were asked to supply information about their current programs and their own graduate training in order to compile a training directory and to analyze certain aspects of the discipline.
  • (20) At the same time as it decided to offload RBI, the company announced the £2.1bn acquisition of US risk-management business ChoicePoint to complement its suite of professional data businesses such as tax bible Tolley's and legal directory Butterworths.

People


Definition:

  • (n.) The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.
  • (n.) Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; -- sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and man in German; as, people in adversity.
  • (n.) The mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people.
  • (n.) One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.
  • (n.) One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers.
  • (v. t.) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The percentage of people with less than 10 TU titers is under 5% after the age of 5 years up to 15 years; from 15 to 60 years there are no subjects with undetectable ASO titer and after this age the percentage is still under 5%.
  • (2) 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.
  • (3) It afflicted 312,000 people and claimed 3200 lives.
  • (4) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (5) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
  • (6) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
  • (7) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
  • (8) People should ask their MP to press the government for a speedier response.
  • (9) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
  • (10) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
  • (11) People have grown very fond of the first and fifth amendments,” she reports.
  • (12) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
  • (13) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
  • (14) She was organised, good with people, very grown up and quickly proved herself to be indispensable.
  • (15) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
  • (16) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
  • (17) (Predictive value positive refers to the proportion of all people identified who actually have the disease.)
  • (18) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
  • (19) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
  • (20) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.