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directed

directed \directed\ adj.

  1. having a specified direction; often used in combination; as, goal-directed.

  2. marked with a destination; -- of mail or parcels; as, I throw away all mail directed to `resident'. Opposite of unaddressed.

    Syn: addressed.

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directed
  1. 1 In a manner emphasizing one's point of view. 2 (context graph theory English) Having the properties of a directed graph. v

  2. (en-past of: direct)

WordNet
directed
  1. adj. (often used in combination) having a specified direction; "a positively directed vector"; "goal-directed"

  2. manageable by a supervising agent; "a directed program of study"

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Usage examples of "directed".

B-39 Peacemaker force has been tasked by SIOP with maintaining an XK-Pluto capability directed at ablating the ability of the Russians to activate Project Koschei, the dormant alien entity they captured from the Nazis at the end of the last war.

The efforts of the Cortes were chiefly directed to the averting of the catastrophe of a national bankruptcy, which was effected by the acceptation of a loan, conjointly tendered by the Mercantile Association, and the Lisbon bank.

It is generally due to acidity of the alimentary canal, to which the treatment must be directed.

A large sign in the lobby of the hotel directed him to the fifth-floor headquarters of the Tonsil, Adenoid and Vas Deferens Society.

The anti-courtiers alleged, that the queen could not send a message to any one house to adjourn, but ought to have directed it to both houses.

Narses, who calmly viewed and directed their efforts, doubted to whom he should adjudge the prize of superior bravery.

And the commander, turning to look at the adjutant, directed his jerky steps down the line.

Houston while the airmobile purred along contentedly, guided by intermittent streams of binary being directed up at it from somewhere below.

The Marchese surveyed it for a moment in silence, and then alighting from his horse, asked eagerly for the Signora, and was directed into one of the saloons.

In the Solar System, the Amalgams had focused and directed the gravity beams used to tear up the planetary surfaces and launch them into free space.

The two last are said elsewhere to be directed against two sets of thinkers called the Eternalists and the Annihilationists, who held respectively the everlasting-life-heresy and the let-us-eat-and-drink-for-tomorrow-we-die-heresy.

That the Librarian of Congress is hereby authorized and directed to have the Annotated Constitution of the United States of America, published in 1938, revised and extended to include annotations of decisions of the Supreme Court prior to January 1, 1948, construing the several provisions of the Constitution correlated under each separate provision, and to have the said revised document printed at the Government Printing Office.

But the apocryphal fable is nonetheless eloquent testimony to the gathering suspicion and hatred directed at the court, which, along with officials in Paris, was held responsible for the plight of the common people.

Small rooms budded off each corridor, and into one of these Arak directed the group.

The glower is directed at the Arbitrator for his failure to intercede.