Definition of direction

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Direction (n.) The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public affairs or of a bank..

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Directory :: Directory (n.) Direction; guide.
English :: English (n.) A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball.
Up-train :: Up-train () A train going in the direction of the metropolis or the main terminus.
Rising :: Rising (a.) Attaining a higher place; taking, or moving in, an upward direction; appearing above the horizon; ascending; as, the rising moon..
Monsoon :: Monsoon (n.) A wind blowing part of the year from one direction, alternating with a wind from the opposite direction; -- a term applied particularly to periodical winds of the Indian Ocean, which blow from the southwest from the latter part of May to the middle of September, and from the northeast from about the middle of October to the middle of December..
Lead :: Lead (v. t.) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place; as, the path leads to the mill; gambling leads to other vices..
Tangential :: Tangential (a.) Of or pertaining to a tangent; in the direction of a tangent.
Trench :: Trench (v. i.) To have direction; to aim or tend.
Crisscross :: Crisscross (adv.) In opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways.
Heterodromous :: Heterodromous (a.) Having spirals of changing direction.
Countermove :: Countermove (v. t. & i.) To move in a contrary direction to.
Providential :: Providential (a.) Effected by, or referable to, divine direction or superintendence; as, the providential contrivance of thing; a providential escape..
Steerage :: Steerage (n.) Direction; regulation; management; guidance.
Dipleidoscope :: Dipleidoscope (n.) An instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's center is on the meridian..
Range :: Range (v. i.) To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast..
Undercurrent :: Undercurrent (n.) A current below the surface of water, sometimes flowing in a contrary direction to that on the surface..
Counterbrace :: Counterbrace (v. t.) To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another..
Clinodiagonal :: Clinodiagonal (a.) Pertaining to, or the direction of, the clinodiagonal..
Homeward :: Homeward (a.) Being in the direction of home; as, the homeward way..
Pleochroism :: Pleochroism (n.) The property possessed by some crystals, of showing different colors when viewed in the direction of different axes..
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