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/dərˈɛktɪŋ/ /dɪrˈɛktɪŋ/ /daɪrˈɛktɪŋ/ Listen

Directing

adjective

1.

Showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on. Synonyms: directional, directive, guiding. "The directional role of science on industrial progress"

Direct

verb

(past & past part. directed; pres. part. directing)

1.

Command with authority.

2.

Intend (something) to move towards a certain goal. Synonyms: aim, place, point, target. "Criticism directed at her superior" , "Direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself"

3.

Guide the actors in (plays and films).

4.

Be in charge of.

5.

Take somebody somewhere. Synonyms: conduct, guide, lead, take. "Can you take me to the main entrance?" , "He conducted us to the palace"

6.

Cause to go somewhere. Synonym: send. "She sent her children to camp" , "He directed all his energies into his dissertation"

7.

Point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards. Synonyms: aim, take, take aim, train. "He trained his gun on the burglar" , "Don't train your camera on the women" , "Take a swipe at one's opponent"

8.

Lead, as in the performance of a composition. Synonyms: conduct, lead.

9.

Give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction.

10.

Specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public. Synonyms: aim, calculate.

11.

Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling. Synonyms: channelise, channelize, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer.

12.

Put an address on (an envelope). Synonym: address.

13.

Plan and direct (a complex undertaking). Synonyms: engineer, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize.

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"Directing" Quotes from Famous Books

... all the grades, as any other officer would have done. He had now attained the rank of major general; and though, as Czar, he gave orders through his ministers to the commander-in-chief of the armies directing them in general what to do, still personally, in camp and in the field of battle, he received orders from his military superior there; and he took a pride and pleasure in the subordination to his superior's authority which the rules of ...

— Peter the Great • Jacob Abbott

... pleasing anticipation of blowing up the pioneer with his own petard. For this purpose, as soon as Touchwood learned that his house was to be applied to for the original deeds left in charge by the deceased Earl of Etherington, he expedited a letter, directing that only the copies should be sent, and thus rendered nugatory Bulmer's desperate design of possessing himself of that evidence. For the same reason, when Solmes announced to him his master's anxious wish to have Hannah ...

— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott

... in the pains for a little time, when they come on more effectively than before as the womb contracts down upon the child and is not hindered by the "bag of water." The pains keep on at intervals until the child is born and the physician can now be of help by guiding, directing and assisting the birth of the head. This stage ...

— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... yer see that it ain't no Charlotte Street she wants, but Queen Charlotte's Hospital? And ye'd better lose no time in directing her." ...

— Esther Waters • George Moore

... that ain't all,' said Sam, again directing his master's attention to the coach door; 'not content vith writin' up "Pick-wick," they puts "Moses" afore it, vich I call addin' insult to injury, as the parrot said ven they not only took him from his native land, but made him ...

— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens

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