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Direction   /dərˈɛkʃən/  /dɪrˈɛkʃɪn/  /daɪrˈɛkʃɪn/   Listen
Direction

noun
1.
A line leading to a place or point.  Synonym: way.  "Didn't know the way home"
2.
The spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves.
3.
A general course along which something has a tendency to develop.  "His ideals determined the direction of his career" , "They proposed a new direction for the firm"
4.
Something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action.  Synonyms: counsel, counseling, counselling, guidance.
5.
The act of managing something.  Synonym: management.  "Is the direction of the economy a function of government?"
6.
A message describing how something is to be done.  Synonym: instruction.
7.
The act of setting and holding a course.  Synonyms: guidance, steering.
8.
A formal statement of a command or injunction to do something.  Synonyms: charge, commission.
9.
The concentration of attention or energy on something.  Synonyms: centering, focal point, focus, focusing, focussing.  "He had no direction in his life"



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"Direction" Quotes from Famous Books



... of a quarter of an hour, as he did not return, I went out into the passage, locked the door of my room behind me, and walked slowly in the direction Albeury had gone. I knew the number of Dulcie's room to be eighty-seven—it adjoined the bedroom occupied by Connie Stapleton, which opened into a private sitting-room; this I had ascertained from one of the hotel porters. As I reached the door of the sitting-room ...
— The Four Faces - A Mystery • William le Queux
... and trouble as, following the direction of the speaker's eyes, she saw a dark figure ...
— The Battle of Life • Charles Dickens
... story in connection with the bell tower on one side of the plaza in Jaro; this tower was about eighty feet high, had a roof and niches for seven or eight good sounding bells. From the top of this tower one could see many miles in every direction; when the Philippine army fled from the town they immediately thought our soldiers might ascend the tower and watch their course, so they burned the staircases. Alas for the little children who had taken refuge in the tower! As the flames swept up the ...
— An Ohio Woman in the Philippines • Emily Bronson Conger
... the kingdom as a whole, as against the purely private pact between a god and his worshippers. The use of these psalms by Assyrian rulers, among whom the idea of the kingdom assumes a greater significance than among the Babylonians, points in this direction. It is significant, at all events, that such psalms were also produced in Assyria; and while they are entirely modeled upon the earlier Babylonian specimens, the contribution to the religious literature thus made in the north must be regarded, not as the outcome of ...
— The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria • Morris Jastrow
... Part of the 21st and 22d the wind blew from N.W., attended with thunder, lightning, and rain, having a large swell from S.S.E. and S., which kept up for several days,— an indication that no land was near us in that direction. ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 14 • Robert Kerr


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