Word Finder - directions

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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.

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Instructions for how to reach a destination or how to do something

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I got so lost on my way downtown I had to ask for directions.

Her directions hadn't been far off.

She hated to ask for directions to another store.

Frustrated, Katie looked both directions down the pristine, eerily quiet hallway before following the kid toward the far end, where a bright red exit sign hung over the door.

I'm not good at directions.

While Dean wasn't familiar with the city, the rental-car agent marked directions to the hospital morgue and he had no trouble locating it.

In other directions the polarization becomes less and less complete as we approach the vertical.

In the distance, over the walls, he saw the flaming arrows streaking in both directions.

He changed directions and pulled on loose judo pants that settled low on his hips before replacing the red gem at his throat.

Garibaldi and a few followers, including his devoted wife Anita, after vainly attempting to reach Venice, where the tricolor still floated, took refuge in the pine forests of Ravenna; the Austrians were seeking him in all directions, and most of his legionaries were captured and shot.

The lush Scottish Highlands around him were covered in a blanket of snow that stretched for miles, the white world interrupted only by a few narrow roads snaking in different directions.

Carmen flipped through the book to the part on kidding problems and scanned down the directions.

Lana listened, chilled at the coldness and precision of his directions.

Winston assumed Dean would know his way back, and Dean was too embarrassed to ask for directions.

Without looking up or pausing in her typing she issued directions.

He took his time strolling down row after row of tents, paus­ing briefly to answer a young man's question about directions.

As I expected, Memon has doubled his presence to the north and is hedging in from all other directions.

In the early stages of the precipitation the polarization is complete in a perpendicular direction, and incomplete in oblique directions.

In place of its ancient fortifications Angouleme is encircled by boulevards known as the Remparts, from which fine views may be obtained in all directions.

After this victory the three princes Toghrul Beg, Chakir Beg and Ibrahim Niyal separated in different directions and conquered the Mahommedan provinces east of the Tigris; the last named, after conquering Hamadan and the province of Jebel (Irak i Ajami), penetrated as early as 1048, with fresh Ghuzz troops, into Armenia and reached Manzikert, Erzerutn and Trebizond.

If V be the potential, p the density of free electricity at a point in the atmosphere, at a distance r from the earth's centre, then assuming statical conditions and neglecting variation of V in horizontal directions, we have r2 (d/dr) (r 2 dV/dr) - - 4.rp = o.

But in other directions also she did good service.

The centres of the cotton trade are Hubli and Gadag, junctions on the Southern Mahratta railway, which traverses the district in several directions.

The manufacture of the cable, begun early in the following year, was finished in June, and before the end of July it was stowed partly in the American ship " Niagara " and partly in decided to begin paying out in mid-ocean, the two vessels, after splicing together the ends of the cable they had on board, sailing away from each other in opposite directions.

There is set up at once a certain hydrostatic pressure, due to the turgidity which ensues upon such absorption, and the extensible cell wall stretches, at first in all directions.

The growing apex of such a stem will alternately incline, first to one side and then to the other, exhibiting a kind of nodding movement in the two directions.

The reaction of the cells may be in two directions, moreover.

In these, under favorable conditions, streaming movements of the cytoplasm in various directions can be observed.

At each pole of this spindle figure there often occur fibres radiating in all directions into the cytoplasm, and sometimes a minute granular body, the centrosome, is also found there.

Surveys were then undertaken in several directions.

But in the 19th century and after exploring work was so generally and steadily maintained in all directions, and was in so many cases narrowed down from long journeys to detailed surveys within relatively small areas, that i t becomes desirable to cover the whole period at one view for certain great divisions of the world.

The rotation of the earth thus fixes the directions of north and south and defines those of east and west.

Further, the combinations B X Y and A X Y cannot be derived from each other, but both directly from A B X Y in two different directions.

The walls of these tertiary tubes send out, in all directions, canaliculi aeriferi which, ending in slight swellings, recall the mammalian aveoli.

But, close as the likeness is, it is merely a superficial likeness, because it is the result of opposite causes working in opposite directions.

In the course of this ceremony, after the sacrifice, men rush in all directions carrying torches; the women also carry fire-brands, or knock on the houses with rice-crushers and other heavy implements, and thus the evil spirits are considered to be driven away.

In the article on Solon (ad fin.) it is shown that the Solonian reforms, though they made a great advance in some directions, failed on the whole.

They at once began to conquer the surrounding country in all directions, and before two centuries had passed they had established themselves firmly at Kiev on the Dnieper, invaded.

Progress was to be made in certain directions and in a certain way.

This difficulty is not peculiar to railways; but it was in the history of railway economy and railway control that certain characteristics which are now manifesting themselves in all directions where large investments of fixed capital are involved were first brought prominently to public notice.

These rights, whether of monopoly or of subsidy, form a means of abuse in many directions.

It is not possible to do anything better with two-cylinder locomotives unless bobweights be added, but with four-cylinder four-crank engines complete balance is possible both in the vertical and in the horizontal directions.

The long hauls in the United States make it specially important that the cars should carry a load in both directions, and so bcx cars which have carried grain or merchandise one way are filled with wool, coal, coke, ore, timber and other coarse articles for the return journey.

A straight length of not less than 60 metres for the largest gauge and 40 metres for the smallest must be made between two curves having opposite directions.

In the old Egyptian church order, known as the Canons of Hippolytus, there are numerous directions for the service of the agape, held on Sundays, saints' days or at commemorations of the dead.

Lavas dip in all directions from the central crystalline core, pointing to the conclusion that the main portion of the mountain represents a single volcanic mass.

To what extent specific Babylonian influence showed itself in other directions is not completely known.

But the dispersion of the Jews was proceeding in directions which carried masses from the Asiatic inland to the Mediterranean coasts and to Europe.

In other directions progress was more rapid.

In other orchids movements take place in different ways and in other directions.

Meanwhile, the acquisition of Burma and the demarcation of boundaries had opened the way to the extension of geographical surveys in directions hitherto untraversed.