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Definition of Direction

Direction The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public affairs or of a bank. That which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants. The name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; as, the direction of a letter. The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly direction. The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors. The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object. Related Definitions: Act, Address, Administration, Aim, Aimed, Aiming, An, And, Any, Anything, As, Authoritative, Axis, Bank, Board, Body, By, Command, Corporation, Course, Direct, Directing, Direction, Distinguished, Elevation, Enterprise, From, Given, Grave, Guidance, Guiding, He, Imaginary, Imposed, In, Instruction, Is, Letter, Line, Lying, Management, Move, Moving, Name, Object, Of, Or, Order, Ordering, Person, Piece, Plane, Point, Pointing, Prescription, Public, Reference, Regulating, Residence, Sailed, Sent, Ship, Sight, Superintendence, Superscription, Tendency, That, The, Thing, Through, To, Upon, Vertical, When, Which, Whom, With, Written

Direction Quotations Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. Al Bernstein If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being. James E. Jones Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. Albert Einstein Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Direction Translations direction in Afrikaans is rigting direction in Danish is retning direction in Dutch is richtlijn, koers, leiding, richting direction in French is direction, conduite direction in German is Richtung direction in Italian is direzione, guida direction in Latin is discessio, gubernatio-ionis direction in Norwegian is retning, ledelse direction in Spanish is direccion, supremacia

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