Word Finder - direction

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A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination. May be relative (e.g. up, left, outbound, dorsal), geographical (e.g. north), rotational (e.g. clockwise), or with respect to an object or location (e.g. toward Boston).

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Keep going in the same direction.

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A general trend for future action.

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Guidance, instruction.

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The trombonist looked to the bandleader for direction.

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The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.

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The screenplay was good, but the direction was weak.

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The body of persons who guide or manage a matter; the directorate.

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A person's address.

She faced the direction from which she'd come.

Isn't this the direction technology inevitably is heading?

A faint pulse of life came from the direction of the gym.

But I take direction from upstairs.

Are we moving in the direction of the solution now?

The police sometimes don't even hear the entire tip... just enough to lead them in the right direction, and find the person.

I was just able to turn in the other direction and be gone.

They came from the same direction as the phone.

Howie continued to look to us for direction while remaining adamant we exclude so much as mention of what we were doing to anyone outside our group.

He needed direction to brush his teeth and was perfectly willing to accept it.

She turned in my direction.

Harmony met him in the woods, coming from the direction of the palace.

His head flew off in one direction while his body dropped.

Sheriff Fitzgerald hardly gave Dean enough time to exit his vehicle before tearing off up the street in the direction of the mountain road.

The horse lifted its head and nickered in the direction of the path.

If you could point me in the right direction, I'll be on my way.

Any idea why the currents run the direction they do in the lake?

Rostov rode in the direction pointed out to him, in which he saw turrets and a church.

Every step must be in the right direction.

Everyone was supposed to ride out in a different direction, but Bordeaux never left her side.

We caught two intersection videos of the van traveling in the direction of route 154.

He didn't want to tread in that direction, so he changed the subject.

Instincts took her in the direction of the stream, and she reached the top of a shallow ravine in whose valley the stream flowed.

The esaul looked in the direction Denisov indicated.

Maybe I can put you in the right direction.

It gave her no real direction as to where to go.

She twisted her head to see the jumbled outlines of the small army of vamps running toward them from the direction of the burning mountain.

I asked, pointing in the direction from which the heat came.

Rostov spurred his horse, called to Sergeant Fedchenko and two other hussars, told them to follow him, and trotted downhill in the direction from which the shouting came.

He saw over the mist that in a hollow between two hills near the village of Pratzen, the Russian columns, their bayonets glittering, were moving continuously in one direction toward the valley and disappearing one after another into the mist.

The marshals and generals, who were nearer to the field of battle but, like Napoleon, did not take part in the actual fighting and only occasionally went within musket range, made their own arrangements without asking Napoleon and issued orders where and in what direction to fire and where cavalry should gallop and infantry should run.

But whether Helen stays at home or makes visits in other parts of the country, her education is always under the immediate direction and exclusive control of her teacher.

That was probably why Bordeaux had instructed each of them to take a separate direction.

There are tests I could conduct that would give us direction and maybe some answers but he refuses to even discuss them.

We're just pointing the police in a direction.

Dean motioned toward Lydia's direction.

She twisted to face the direction from which it had come, expecting to see Gabriel.  Nothing was there.  The jungle around her fell suddenly still, and the possessed branches stopped in place, as if watching her.

Not once did he look in their direction.

She looked to Howie before answering, as if looking for direction.

He's sought out anyone he thinks might lead him in the right direction.

She rubbed her head and glared at him, watching as he followed his father in the direction where both sky and sea darkened into blackness.

It's ten miles from nowhere, in every direction.

It was still light enough to see across the gorge when an opening in the trees allowed, but the long swing to the far end of valley was away from the direction the vehicle had driven and blocked from sight by the curve of the canyon.

I'm not even sure now the siren came from the same direction.

Maybe we're aging this skeleton in the wrong direction.

For the first time since taking over the underworld, he had a small semblance of direction.

The round tub was luxurious, and her thoughts turned a different direction.

I set up the chain of events millennia ago and knew if I could push her enough in one direction, she'd go peacefully over the edge, he said.

The cry startled those around her, and she glanced back at the kid, who stared in her direction.

He led her toward Jared's direction.