More definitions of "direction":
- (noun): A message describing how something is to be done.
Synonyms: instruction
- (noun): The spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves.
Example: "He checked the direction and velocity of the wind"
- (noun): A general course along which something has a tendency to develop.
Example: "I couldn't follow the direction of his thoughts"; "his ideals determined the direction of his career"; "they proposed a new direction for the firm"
- (noun): A formal statement of a command or injunction to do something.
Synonyms: commission, charge
- (noun): Something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action.
Synonyms: guidance, counsel, counseling, counselling
- (noun): The concentration of attention or energy on something.
Example: "He had no direction in his life"
Synonyms: focus, focusing, focussing, centering
- (noun): A line leading to a place or point.
Example: "He looked the other direction"
Synonyms: way
- (noun): The act of managing something.
Example: "Is the direction of the economy a function of government?"
Synonyms: management
Famous quotes containing the word direction:
“Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me!
A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts “beauty.” It tries to be truthful.”
—Paul Celan [Paul Antschel] (1920–1970)