directory entry

collocation in English

meaningsofdirectoryandentry

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withentryordirectory.
directory
noun[C]
uk
/dɪˈrek.tər.i/us
/dɪˈrek.tɚ.i/
a book that gives a list of names, addresses, or ...
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entry
noun
uk
/ˈen.tri/us
/ˈen.tri/
the act of entering a place or joining a particular society ...
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(Definition ofdirectoryandentryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdirectory entry

These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
The concordance-block reading mechanism takes as input the information from an indirect concordancedirectoryentry.
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A demand note is sent by one of these companies to a business, often containing a proof note of adirectoryentry.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Single block files (under 513 bytes) have no index block; thedirectoryentrypoints directly to the block of file data.
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Wikipedia
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Every name space requires its own separatedirectoryentryfor each file.
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Wikipedia
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Instead, two bits in byte 0x0c of thedirectoryentryare used to indicate that the filename should be considered as entirely or partially lowercase.
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Wikipedia
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Eachdirectoryentrycould list 8 or 16 blocks (depending on disk format) that were allocated to a file.
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Wikipedia
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Each shard entry maps a hash key to the logical block number of adirectoryentryblock known to contain a name that hashes to that key.
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Wikipedia
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To avoid this, eachdirectoryentryhas a "directory index item", whose right-hand value of the item is set to a per-directory counter that increments with each newdirectoryentry.
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Wikipedia
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The only evidence that this practice is continuing is in respect of documents sent from overseas relating to directory entries.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
A similar provision is made in the case of directory entries.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Suffice it to say that in these bogus directory entries some 100,000 to 200,000 clients are involved.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Many game developers, warez group members and demoscene hackers used some more clever custom directory entries as well.
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Wikipedia
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In addition, hard links on directories would lead to inconsistency on parent directory entries.
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Wikipedia
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The number of permitted directory entries was also increased, to 296 entries.
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Wikipedia
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This allows implementations to use other solutions, such as storing symlink data in directory entries.
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Wikipedia
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Some utility programs allow the un-deletion of such files if their data blocks and directory entries haven not yet been overwritten by other files.
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Wikipedia
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Thus, a single file could have multiple directory entries.
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Most web directory entries are also not found by web crawlers but by humans.
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Wikipedia
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Key/value pairs are used to store metadata, attributes, and directory entries.
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Wikipedia
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The duplicated directory entries can still reference the data files in the previous session(s).
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Wikipedia
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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