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direction | American Dictionary

direction
noun
us/dəˈrek·ʃən, dɑɪ-/

directionnoun (POSITION)

[ C ]
the position toward which someone or something moves or faces:
Cars were facing every direction after slamming into each other on the icy road.
I glanced in her direction (= toward her).
You’re headed in the direction of (= toward) Toronto.
[ pl ]
Directions are instructions about how to find the place you are looking for:
We’re lost – let’s stop and ask (for) directions .

directionnoun (CONTROL)

[ U ]
the condition of being in charge or in control:
Under her direction, the agency doubled in size.

Examples of direction

direction
Finally, the authors conclude with a summary and a few points about the future directions for this compelling domain.
Each state of the domain is defined by some satellites, some directions, some instruments and a number of modes.
In the satellite domain, satellites need to take images in different directions, in certain modes, using appropriate instruments.
The directions of differences, whether significant or not, are shown for the +inversion groups in (17) and (18).
I will argue for the conclusion that we find influence in both directions.
Theoretical literature on the maturing individual tends to take one of two directions.
Then, to thunderous drumming of the big drum and clashing of the large cymbals, they dance past each other and exit in separate directions.
Evolution, human engineering, science, and culture all systematically reuse constructs in new contexts that drive their elaboration in new directions.
A relative base value of 100 has been used to allow the fluctuation of each criterion in both directions.
The female moves the ovipositor in and out in various directions through thefleshof the apple with the greatest ease.
Furthermore, we would not expect crosslinguistic in-uence to occur in both directions during the same developmental phase.
Circumstantial evidence, which he employs in his chronological chapters, but not in this context, points in other directions.
A few of the chapters seem to strike out in such individual directions that their inclusion would be debatable.
I will ®nish by making a few remarks regarding directions for further study.
If there is a breakdown in feature checking but no loss of gender on nouns, one would anticipate problems in both directions.
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Collocations withdirection

direction

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axial direction
The streams of the coronal plasma are found to be nonuniform in the axialdirection.
causal direction
Untangling the causaldirection allows us to investigate whether political conversation makes good citizens, or whether it is good citizens who engage in political conversation.
changed direction
The changed direction of patterns observed in 1982 on the snow surface on top of the peninsula, would tend to support this idea.
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