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directeur 133 discipline
direeteur, m., director, superintendent, manager:
(Fr. a.) head or chief of a ''direction;" field
officer of .artillery, superintendent of a smallarm,
factory, or of any establishment for the
manufacture and preservation of materiel; chief
of a direction d'artilJcrie, q. v.; head, chief, or director
of an operation, of a service;
d'administration centrale, ( Fr. adm.) head of
a department of the administration, under the
direct orders of the minister;
d'administration regionale, head of a territorial,
etc., subdivision of the administration;
d'arttihrie, ( Fr. art.) chief or head of a direction
d'artillcrie, q. v.;
dcs attaques de mine, (mil. min.) the officer
in charge of mining operations in a siege;
chef de service, the head of a department or
branch of the administration; (more particularly,
Fr. a.) the chief of a direction (as, artillery,
powders and saltpeters, etc.);
dcs chemins de fer aux armees, ( Fr. a.) the
6*Ueer at the head of the military railway
service;
- dcs chemins defer et des etapes, (Fr. a.) the
officer at the head of the service de Varriere for
an army acting independently;
dcs constructions navalcs, (Fr. nav.) chief of
construction corps;
de la defense souterraine, (mil. min.) in a
sioo;e, the officer in charge of countermining
operations;
des etapes, (Fr. a.) chief of the service des
eta-ncs of an army, is under the orders of its
chief of staff;
general des chemins de fer et des etapes, ( Fr.
a.) general officer at the head of the service de
I'arriere, is under the orders of the chief of
staff, and acts for several armies under one
command and in one theater of war;
du genie, ( Fr. a.) the colonel or lieutenantcolonel
of engineers in charge of a direction du
genie;
de la, manoeuvre, des manoeuvres, (mil.)
officer who directs a maneuver or maneuvers
and criticises and passes on the results;
du pare, (siege) the officer in charge of a park;
de service, ( Fr. a.) the administrative head
of the services of artillery, engineers, intendance,
and of the medical department, respectively,
in armies, army corps, and military governments;
du service de sante, (Fr. a.) the chief medical
officer of an army corps and of a military government
(in peace); chief medical officer of a
corps, division, fort, etc. (in war); (Fr. nav.)
chief medical officer;
sous- , ( Fr. art.) major or captain of artillery
on duty at a small-arm factory, etc., in special
charge of fabrication;
superieur des chemins defer et des etapes, ( Fr.
a.) officer in charge of the service de I'arriere of
an army acting alone.
dlrecteur, a., directing, guiding;
flanc , (art.) driving edge.
direction, f., direction, conduct, management,
administration, directorship; bearing; steeringpost,
steering head (of a bicycle); branch of the
administration or district, under the charge of
a director; (more esp., Fr. a.) branch of the war
department, under a military director; there
are eight in all. one for each arm, and one each
for the controle, "powders and saltpeters,"
medical department, and administrative serv-
ices;
d'arme, (Fr. a.) the direction of each arm of
the service;
d'artillerie, (Fr. a.) territorial subdivision,
comprising arsenals, certain manufacturing and
repair establishments, magazines, etc.;
des ballons, (Fr.a.) the direction in charge of
the whole subject of military ballooning;
direction, ft billes, steering-post on ball-bearings
(bicycle);
des chemins defer de campagne, ( Fr. a.) direction
or administration of transports beyond
the base of operations, i. e., between the transition
stations and the army, in the zone worked
by military railways proper, and by a military
personnel; accompanies the main headquarters
of the army (sometimes called direction militaire.
etc.);
de la courroie, (mach.) v. s. v. courroie;
de courant, set of a current;
de , (mil.) guiding, of direction (said of a unit
at drill);
d' etapes, (mil.) the direction or management
of the etapes service;
du flot, set of the flood;
generale des chemins de fer et des etapes, (Fr.
a.) administration of the whole subject of transport
for armies in the field; is adjoined to the
commander in chief;
du genie, (Fr. a.) a group of chefferies du
genie (q. v.);
dujusant, set of the ebb;
de la maree, set of the tide;
montante, upward direction;
plongeante, downward direction;
de service, (Fr. a.) the direction of a service,
as, e. g., of the medical department of an army
corps, of the intendance of one of the military
governments;
de la telegraphic militaire, (Fr. a.) department
in charge of the military telegraph; in
war, one to each army, and to each corps acting
independently (the general subject of the
telegraph service for a given theater of war
constitutes the direction generale de la telegra-
phic).
(It is clear from the foregoing definitions and
examples that direction, in a military sense, is
a more or less comprehensive term. It means
1. An administrative subdivision of the war
department;
2. An administrative subdivision, either of
a territory or of troops in the field;
3. In certain special cases, the administration
of affairs to secure a specific end. This
idea is necessarily connoted in 1 and 2.
Finally, by extension, it may be taken to
denote the personnel of a direction.)
directive, f., (mil.) private information given by
the supreme command to subordinate chiefs,
to enable the latter to act in conformity w.ith
the general object sought.
dlrectrice, f., directrix; (fort.) directrix of an embrasure,
of a gun port; (F. m. art.) support for
the guide de crosse (q. v.); (sm. a.) bayonet
guide-rib (Fr. model 1874); (inst.) right line
tangent to middle point of an air-level.
dlrlger, v. a., to direct, manage, govern, conduct;
la ligne de mire, (art.) to lay a gun.
dlsant, m., le moins , (adm.) the lowest bidder.
dlscipllnalre, a., (mil.) disciplinary;
corps , disciplinary unit, punishment corps;
peine , disciplinary punishment.
disciplinaire, m., (mil.) man belonging to a compagnie
de discipline.
discipline, f., (mil.) discipline; punishment;
compagnie de -, ( Fr. a.) v. compagnie;
conscil de , ( Fr. a.) v. conseil;
corps de , ( Fr. a.) v. compagnie;
faute de , breach of discipline;
desfeux, dufeu, (art., inf.) fire discipline;
gardcr la , to maintain discipline;
maintenir dans la , to keep under discipline;
de marche, attention paid to all details on a
march, especially to prevent elongation;
peine de , disciplinary punishment;
sans , undisciplined;
se reldcher de la , to relax in discipline.