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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
direction
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a move in the right direction
▪ The decision seemed to be a move in the right direction.
a sense of direction (=the ability to judge which way you should be going)
▪ The place was completely dark and I lost all sense of direction.
a sense of purpose/direction (=a feeling that you know what you are trying to achieve)
▪ Becoming a mother had given her a new sense of purpose.
a step in the right direction (=an action that helps to improve things)
▪ Environmentalists said the law was a step in the right direction.
ask for directions (=instructions how to get from one place to another)
▪ At the station he asked for directions to the museum.
give...directions (=tell me how to go there)
▪ Can you give me directions to the station?
in a northerly direction
▪ We set off in a northerly direction.
in a southerly direction
▪ Tara walked in a southerly direction.
in a westerly direction
▪ We set off in a westerly direction.
in an easterly direction
▪ We drove off in an easterly direction.
in the general direction of
▪ They started walking in the general direction of the pub.
in the opposite direction
▪ She turned and walked off in the opposite direction.
lose all sense of time/direction/proportion etc
▪ When he was writing, he lost all sense of time.
pointed in the direction of
▪ She pointed in the direction of the car park.
point...in the direction of
▪ Could you point me in the direction of the bathroom, please?
point...in the right direction
▪ A financial adviser should be able to point you in the right direction.
stage direction
the other side/end/direction etc
▪ You can park on the other side of the street.
▪ He lives at the other end of the road.
▪ She drove off in the other direction.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
▪ They could have evolved in radically different directions in the three areas.
▪ Management and coaches and scouts all seemed to be headed in different directions.
▪ But the political tide seemed to be flowing in a different direction.
▪ All five charged off in different directions.
▪ Tuppe and Cornelius followed the pointing fingers and set off in different directions.
▪ They came to Stanford at the same time, but from entirely different directions.
▪ In a fan experiment, other dishes are put at the same distance as the original dish, but in different directions.
▪ There was too much information to absorb all at once; too many forces were pulling me in different directions.
future
▪ The methods are restricted to illustrating, supplementing, and contextualizing results obtained from quantitative procedures, and indicating future research directions.
▪ Other academics, including some from abroad, will be invited to suggest future directions for research.
▪ This is related to marketing and systems analysis literature and practice with the aim of establishing deficiencies and proposing future research directions.
▪ The Green Paper makes clear the future direction of probation, through comments on the training of probation officers.
▪ Confusion reigns for the future direction of the industry in the absence of clear guidelines and leadership.
▪ Yet he remains bearish about the future direction of share prices.
▪ But its future direction remains unknown and indeterminate.
general
▪ Governors are responsible for the ethos and general direction of the school.
▪ When I threw a half-hearted punch in his general direction, he knocked me down.
▪ As the general direction of O'Neill's policies became clear, conservative Protestants began to organize against him.
▪ Keoni began to head north-west, in the general direction of Hsu Fu.
▪ Her hair was taken back just on one side, and she smiled in the general direction of the entire human race.
▪ We sit down and talk about what has to be done, the general direction we want to go in.
▪ Then one of the men shouted something, waving his arms in the general direction of the forest.
▪ We will fire him a great distance, in the general direction of a wall in which two slots are cut.
new
▪ It points the way to new directions for the late 1980s and 1990s.
▪ Efficient decision-making systems give terrific power to the efforts of already capable people considering new directions.
▪ Whatever enforced their absence for the last couple of years, it wasn't an extensive search for a new musical direction.
▪ Whatever the circumstances, reporting means learning new skills, taking new directions, having more room to grow.
▪ And then found her thoughts, which desperately needed a new direction, turning slowly towards the mill-school.
▪ The banks of the river move; water flows in new directions.
▪ But they're worth doing: the program has suggested whole new directions for medical research.
▪ But new directions and designs help only when the people who must change behaviors engage in understanding and shaping them.
opposite
▪ Caught in a green translucent wave were two tiny sea-horses facing in opposite directions, one frolicking, the other melancholy.
▪ Coming in the opposite direction ahead are three cars, then four.
▪ This happened to me on the Seven Mile Straight at recently, a lorry coming in the opposite direction in spite of road signs.
▪ During the first two rounds, the wind had been in the opposite direction.
▪ Yet paradoxically, the reaction expected from a reader is in the opposite direction.
▪ The evidence points in exactly the opposite direction.
▪ However, when the current in the read cycle reverses, this will re-magnetize the core in the opposite direction.
▪ You head in the opposite direction and you come down into a ravine.
other
▪ But it is also because their own specialist interests have led them in other directions.
▪ Definite and energetic steps must be taken in other directions to restore the balance of our national economic life ....
▪ The financial strain upon the Danzigers came from other directions too.
▪ Much of the time she could only be ridden towards her dinner bucket; any other direction except backwards produced complete refusal.
▪ For the mass of the population, indeed, the shift of interest arguably went in the other direction.
▪ Drivers coming from the other direction raised a hand to thank me for allowing them to pass.
▪ He groped his way back to the last junction and limped in the other direction.
▪ By the shore the driftwood was still travelling upriver, but in midstream it was gathering way headlong in the other direction.
right
▪ Is it taking you in the right direction?
▪ But environmentalists call it a step in the right direction.
▪ Could you have shifted it as an individual in the right direction?
▪ There would be no time like now to get things going in the right direction again.
▪ He began to run in what he thought was the right direction, but he didn't recognise any of the buildings.
▪ A: Read your letter ... like your style ... can point you in the right direction.
▪ Implementing Cadbury will therefore be an experimental step in the right direction.
▪ The illuminated sail was reversible, so that it always sailed in the right direction to ensure authenticity.
wrong
▪ But the politicians are looking for it in the wrong direction.
▪ How can so much movement in the wrong direction be accomplished in one year?
▪ He urged him to go to the local hotel, only twelve miles in the wrong direction.
▪ But I am heavier and headed in the wrong direction.
▪ Then she saw him look around quickly, but in all the wrong directions.
▪ He could hear the old man rummaging in there, completely unaware that things were now somehow turned in the wrong direction.
▪ It is no use just heating things up; that would again only speed up the reaction in the wrong direction.
▪ They began to see small craft but, like the Amenca, apparently going in the wrong direction.
■ NOUN
stage
▪ Yes, for reasons of stage direction.
▪ In this family, stories were the tangible stage directions in her otherwise silent and subliminal Medlow script.
▪ The uncertainty of this utterance is indicated strongly in Stoppard's stage directions.
▪ Wes was rattling off the stage directions as fast as he could.
▪ The effect is not unlike that of the script of a play with stage directions.
▪ A stage direction suggests devils appear and Faustus goes off with Mephostophilis.
■ VERB
change
▪ Films rather than books were the medium to aim for-fair comment, of course, that helped me change direction.
▪ Several are in turnaround situations, having changed direction under new leadership.
▪ Consequently, they may change the direction of their attitudinal expressions.
▪ But when he was denied tenure, Moore changed direction and started practicing psychotherapy.
▪ As instructed, she gave Fen two or three minutes' warning and felt the boat change direction and nudge the bank.
▪ As the light slows down, it also changes direction a little.
▪ Guha surely had it right when he likened Littlewoods to a giant tanker that takes ages to change direction.
▪ It was a dark night with just a glimmer of stars and a light and fickle wind which frequently changed direction.
follow
▪ He followed Creed's directions, leaving the road for an unpaved track that seemed to lead towards the ocean.
▪ Treatment followed one of three directions, depending on the condition of a particular muscle.
▪ They followed his directions, once again admiring the great single-spouted fountain as they continued on towards the centre of the city.
▪ Meanwhile, the emerging industrial factories needed workers who were at least literate and able to follow directions.
▪ But, if you use cleaning products, you must follow the manufacturer's directions explicitly.
▪ Look at the picture and follow c, the directions.
▪ The form is simple and foolproof if you follow its wording and directions carefully.
▪ First of all, they are unable to follow directions.
give
▪ The minister can change the board and give the board directions of a general character which have to be observed.
▪ I gave them directions to Astor Place.
▪ It can probably spot moving targets, and give their speed and direction.
▪ Those without a Visa card will be given directions on how to apply for one.
▪ My presence in the flat at Annick Water gave him a final direction for all this fuss.
▪ Win sat in the middle of the rear scat, giving directions.
▪ One example of their work: Bernard Flanagan was asked to give direction to the works stores.
▪ The good manager gives direction and information about what works and takes the problems away.
head
▪ He was now heading back in the direction of New York City, by circling the perimeter of the vast estate.
▪ Management and coaches and scouts all seemed to be headed in different directions.
▪ While these figures are still terrible, they are at least heading in the right direction.
▪ Otherwise they would head in the direction of the agreed place and either catch up with the flocks or inquire.
▪ That was where Obispal was heading from one direction.
▪ Anson guessed west, and so headed in that direction.
▪ The very fact that we are considering aspects of animal welfare suggests that we are now heading in the right direction.
▪ Jean and those guys, it seems like this organization is heading in the right direction.
look
▪ I looked in the same direction and saw a group of men standing and staring at us.
▪ Other senators look to her for direction.
▪ Almost everyone concerned with education is looking for the right direction to go, and there is much talk of leadership.
▪ The man on the bicycle who had been looking intently in my direction remounted and pedaled away.
▪ He seemed unable to meet the coroner's eyes, not daring even to look in his direction.
▪ I can look in any direction by turning my wheelchair, and I choose to look back.
▪ Tim was lying on the sand, looking in the direction the man had gone.
▪ One of these people had looked in my direction once too often, passed by once again just a little too slowly.
lose
▪ Lurching along in this enclosed space, one loses all sense of direction.
▪ Alan Winmill says the Labour party has lost direction, but his former colleagues say they wanted him out anyway.
▪ The trouble is that when there are so many directions, you lose sight of the direction.
▪ I've lost my sense of direction.
▪ I just lost all sense of direction, of purpose.
▪ Now, with Tuvan music in fashion, she seems to have lost direction.
▪ Here, all life is at its lowest ebb and man has lost all sense of direction.
move
▪ This reduction has forced others to move in a similar direction.
▪ Yields on bonds move in an opposite direction from prices.
▪ It would be wrong not to move in that direction.
▪ It seems to me that all mankind is moving in that direction.
▪ They can thus be moved in any direction across the microscope stage.
▪ Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions.
▪ Canterbury was certainly not moving in the direction of Cistercian austerity in Anselm's time.
▪ Sometimes they are able to and sometimes they are not able to, but they really move it in that direction.
point
▪ With a certain amount of ingenuity she can even use the balloon to steer herself by pointing it in various directions.
▪ Everyone I asked seemed to point in a different direction.
▪ If you are going somewhere then you have to know where you are going in order to point in the right direction.
▪ It also assumes that existing people are already capable and only need pointing in the right direction.
▪ I have time to discuss only one lexical myth: this is the signpost which points us in the direction of precision.
▪ The circle is actually a large microwave tower with nine cones pointing in five directions.
▪ The organisation is pointing in a direction and the momentum keeps it going in that direction.
▪ The old woman points south in the direction of the big house.
pull
▪ Even the claim that the natural order reflected the contingency of a divine will could pull in two directions.
▪ Most of us get pulled into one direction or the other.
▪ With money-economies firmly in place the wealthy can pull markets in whichever direction they like.
▪ I was pulled in two directions.
▪ There are powerful undercurrents in the 1988 Education Act which pull in this direction.
▪ She was being pulled in opposite directions by equally powerful forces.
▪ The picture of a dovish president pulled in opposite directions by thugs on both right and left is not entirely accurate.
▪ There was too much information to absorb all at once; too many forces were pulling me in different directions.
run
▪ The minute I unleashed him, he suddenly wasn't so brave, whimpering and running in the other direction.
▪ The Yankees were cutting and slashing, and the cannoneers were running in every direction.
▪ He ran in every direction and more important: faster than the turks.
▪ Money always seems to run in one direction and that is the stock market now.
▪ If he ran in that direction, would he be able to dodge?
▪ Sometimes the mind can run in so many directions at once.
▪ Remember that the teeth run in an upward direction and the last tooth sits a couple of inches below the eye.
▪ Others are wound up with mothering tasks that have them running in all directions at noon.
turn
▪ I signalled to turn back in the direction of the motorway, then I changed my mind.
▪ The damaged left eye seemed to turn in another direction, to be preoccupied separately with different matters.
▪ We turn in the opposite direction to meet the path.
▪ The tower was turned and facing another direction.
▪ She turned in that direction even though it meant leaving the path.
▪ Examples of rock piles that turned water in new directions are numerous.
▪ Instinctively he had turned in the opposite direction from the Eldorado block.
▪ He could hear the old man rummaging in there, completely unaware that things were now somehow turned in the wrong direction.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
follow the signs/sb's directions
▪ But, if you use cleaning products, you must follow the manufacturer's directions explicitly.
▪ He made his way quickly to Mrs Brooks' house, following the postman's directions.
▪ If you're using sterilising solution, follow the manufacturer's directions.
▪ One involves focus groups, where a representative customer is selected and asked to perform a task by following the enclosed directions.
▪ Process through a pasta machine following the manufacturer's directions.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Bill marched off angrily in the opposite direction.
▪ Did you see which direction they went?
▪ Frightened by the sound of footsteps, the rabbits ran off in all directions.
▪ I was hoping he wouldn't look in our direction and notice us sitting there.
▪ Officials have complained that there is a lack of direction in the mayor's office.
▪ The moons all move around the planet in the same direction.
▪ The plane was traveling in a northeasterly direction when it was hit by lightning.
▪ The sound of shots came from the direction of the compound, a quarter of a mile away.
▪ The two young men headed off in the direction of Central Park.
▪ This decision could determine the direction in which our lives will move.
▪ Tornadoes usually form when rising warm, moist air rotates, as winds from opposite directions collide.
▪ We're going in the right direction now - I can see the main road up ahead.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Hencke shone the torch in the direction of the sound.
▪ It can not be repeated too often - don't develop a bias towards one particular attitude or direction.
▪ It points the way to new directions for the late 1980s and 1990s.
▪ Quartz is strongly bonded in all directions and has no good cleavage.
▪ The ride in the air transporter had been bumpy due to air missiles fired in their direction.
▪ Whatever the circumstances, reporting means learning new skills, taking new directions, having more room to grow.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Direction

Direction \Di*rec"tion\, n. [L. directio: cf. F. direction.]

  1. The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o? public affairs or of a bank.

    I do commit his youth To your direction.
    --Shak.

    All nature is but art, unknown to thee; ll chance, direction, which thou canst not see.
    --Pope.

  2. That which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants.

    The princes digged the well . . . by the direction of the law giver.
    --Numb. xxi. 18.

  3. The name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; as, the direction of a letter.

  4. The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly direction.

  5. The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors.

  6. (Gun.) The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object.
    --Wilhelm.

    Syn: Administration; guidance; management; superintendence; oversight; government; order; command; guide; clew.

    Usage: Direction, Control, Command, Order. These words, as here compared, have reference to the exercise of power over the actions of others. Control is negative, denoting power to restrain; command is positive, implying a right to enforce obedience; directions are commands containing instructions how to act. Order conveys more prominently the idea of authority than the word direction. A shipmaster has the command of his vessel; he gives orders or directions to the seamen as to the mode of sailing it; and exercises a due control over the passengers.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
direction

c.1400, "orderly arrangement;" c.1500 as "action of directing," from Latin directionem (nominative directio), noun of action from past participle stem of dirigere (see direct (v.)). Meaning "course pursued by a moving object" is from 1660s. Related: Directional.

Wiktionary
direction

n. 1 The action of directing; pointing (something) or looking towards. 2 guidance, instruction. 3 The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc. 4 (context archaic English) An address. 5 The path or course of a given movement, or moving body; an indication of the point toward or from which an object is moving.

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WordNet
direction

  1. n. a line leading to a place or point; "he looked the other direction"; "didn't know the way home" [syn: way]

  2. the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves; "he checked the direction and velocity of the wind"

  3. a general course along which something has a tendency to develop; "I couldn't follow the direction of his thoughts"; "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 [syn: guidance, counsel, counseling, counselling]

  5. the act of managing something; "he was given overall management of the program"; "is the direction of the economy a function of government?" [syn: management]

  6. a message describing how something is to be done; "he gave directions faster than she could follow them" [syn: instruction]

  7. the act of setting and holding a course; "a new council was installed under the direction of the king" [syn: steering, guidance]

  8. a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something; "the judge's charge to the jury" [syn: commission, charge]

  9. the concentration of attention or energy on something; "the focus of activity shifted to molecular biology"; "he had no direction in his life" [syn: focus, focusing, focussing, centering]

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Wikipedia
Direction (album)

Direction is the third studio album by The Starting Line, following Based on a True Story.

Direction

Direction may refer to:

  • Direction (geometry)
    • Relative direction, for instance left, right, forward, backwards, up, and down (see also Anatomical terms of location for those used in scientific descriptions)
    • Cardinal direction
    • Direction vector, a vector that defines the direction
    • Direction of a subspace of a Euclidean or affine space.
  • Film direction, the filmmaker who is in charge of the making of the visual medium
  • Stage direction, also called theater direction
  • Writing direction
  • See Alexander technique for Direction, a concept in the Alexander Technique
  • Direction – Social Democracy, a major political party in Slovakia
  • Direction (record label), a record label in the UK in the late 1960s, a subsidiary of CBS Records, specialising in soul music
  • Directions: The Plans Video Album, a DVD video album made of videos inspired by songs from indie rock/pop band Death Cab for Cutie's album Plans
  • Directed set, in order theory
  • Directed graph, in graph theory
  • "Direction", a song by the band Interpol, released as a B-side off the Six Feet Under soundtrack
  • For the guidance and cueing of a group of musicians during performance, see conducting
  • Direction (album) a 2007 album by The Starting Line
  • Directionality (molecular biology), the orientation of a nucleic acid
  • Directions (delegated legislation), a form of delegated legislation
  • Directions (Miles Davis album), 1981
  • Directions (PC Quest album), 1992
  • Directions (Norman Blake album), 1978
Direction (geometry)

Direction is the information contained in the relative position of one point with respect to another point without the distance information. Directions may be either relative to some indicated reference (the violins in a full orchestra are typically seated to the left of the conductor), or absolute according to some previously agreed upon frame of reference (New York City lies due west of Madrid). Direction is often indicated manually by an extended index finger or written as an arrow. On a vertically oriented sign representing a horizontal plane, such as a road sign, "forward" is usually indicated by an upward arrow. Mathematically, direction may be uniquely specified by a unit vector, or equivalently by the angles made by the most direct path with respect to a specified set of axes.

In Euclidean and affine geometry, the direction of a subspace is the vector space associated to this subspace. In the case of a subspace of dimension one (that is a line) the direction vectors are the nonzero vectors of this vector space.

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Usage examples of "direction".

I remember thinking that the abo who had given McIlroy the directions must have been a hell of a tireless walker.

Whatever be the inequality in the hardness of the materials of which the rock consists, even in the case of pudding-stone, the surface is abraded so evenly as to leave the impression that a rigid rasp has moved over all the undulations of the land, advancing in one and the same direction and levelling all before it.

Recall that an object is accelerating if either the speed or the direction of its motion changes.

Boil the fish in acidulated water according to directions previously given.

Without a word of acquiescence or acknowledgment, he turned to hobble in the direction of the tarn.

The Slocum syndicate had just broken ground for a luxury development in the opposite direction on acreage safely within Magnolia city limits, Laura acknowledged.

At the top of the slow rise, the parcel became flat and I could see gently undulating acreage sweeping out in all directions.

Mr Steplight and I made a fine pair of travelling-companions, for he addressed no word to me nor even looked in my direction during all the first stage so that I might have been a parcel he had shoved onto the seat beside him.

They returned very shortly with two women in the direction of the city, saying that Peterson had refused them admittance, explaining that Chatterford had emigrated, and these more sensible women had begged transportation into London.

Mina Gelmann wagged an admonitory finger in the direction of the bobbing blue ellipse.

In the meantime we may follow the unhappy fortunes of the small column which had, as already described, been sent out by Sir George White in order, if possible, to prevent the junction of the two Boer armies, and at the same time to threaten the right wing of the main force, which was advancing from the direction of Dundee, Sir George White throughout the campaign consistently displayed one quality which is a charming one in an individual, but may be dangerous in a commander.

And now the force had a straight run in before it, for it had outpaced any further force of Boers which may have been advancing from the direction of Magersfontein.

It was all very well for Craig to choose a more adventuresome path in this world, but she, Brenna, had already chosen hers and it did not lead in the same direction.

Argentine Base, Deception Island, disclosed that, on July 3, 16 persons including three Chilean sub officers had observed an aerial object over the northern area of the island moving in a north-northeast direction, varying speed, oscillatory course, changing yellow-green-orange color, leaving a contrail at 30 degrees elevation.

Gnaeus Clodius Afer, lifting his head and peering back in the direction from which they had deployed.