direction

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Singular
direction

Plural
directions

direction (plural directions)

  1. The action of directing; pointing (something) towards.
  2. Guidance, instruction.
    The trombonist looked to the bandleader for direction.
  3. The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.
    The screenplay was good, but the direction was weak.
  4. (archaic) An address.
    • 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 218:
      Her aunt Leonella was still at Cordova, and she knew not her direction.
  5. The path or course of a given movement, or moving body; an indication of the point toward which an object is moving.
    Keep going in the same direction.

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direction f. (plural directions)

  1. (spatial) direction
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