Direction

Noun

 * 1) The action of directing; pointing (something) towards.
 * 2) Guidance, instruction.
 * The trombonist looked to the bandleader for direction.
 * 1) 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.
 * 1)  An address.
 * 2) * 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 218:
 * Her aunt Leonella was still at Cordova, and she knew not her direction.
 * 1) 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.
 * 1) *1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
 * Just before Warwick reached Liberty Point, a young woman came down Front Street from the direction of the market-house. When their paths converged, Warwick kept on down Front Street behind her, it having been already his intention to walk in this direction.

Adjectives for Direction
unlooked-for; vague; intelligent; competent general; steady; practical; brilliant; magnificent; indicated; careful; unified; cohesive; disastrous; dangerous; legislative opposite; forbidden; habitual; desirable inhibited; oblique; relentless; distinguished succinct; ultimate; academic; retrograde homeward; arbitrary; ignoble; business like; complicated; intellectual; intricate low-toned; eccentric; crisp; voluble; con else; hurried; curt; calm; explicit (pi) contradictory; transversal; dazzling; frivolous; minute.

Verbs for Direction
comply with—; determine—; divert from .—; drift in—; err in—; face in—of; gaze in—; give—to; heed—; incline—; lack—;observe—s; respond to—; reverse—; tend in—of; train in—; transmit—s; turn in—; —swerves —wavers.

Synonyms for Direction
way, goal, course, line, bearing, address, aim, inclination, end, tendency, guidance, management, government, leadership, superintendence, control, older, command, instruction.

Antonyms for Direction
misdirection, deviation, misinstruction.

Related terms

 * direct
 * directions
 * director
 * directive
 * misdirection
 * redirection
 * under the direction of

Thesaurus
Zeitgeist, action, actuation, address, administering, administration, admonition, advice, advising, advocacy, agency, angle, animation, arrow, avenue, bearing, billhead, blaze, briefing, catechization, caution, caveat, charge, civil government, coaching, command, commission, compass needle, conduct, conducting, consultation, control, council, counsel, course, current, destination, dictate, didactics, directing, direction post, directions, directive, directorate, directorship, discipline, dispensation, disposition, dress rehearsal, drift, driving, edification, education, empery, empire, enlightenment, execution, exercise, exhortation, expostulation, final instructions, finger post, fist, form of government, functioning, general orders, glacial movement, governance, governing, government, guidance, guide, guideboard, guidepost, guiding, hand, handling, hortation, hour hand, idea, illumination, index, index finger, influence, information, injunction, inner-direction, instruction, instructions, lead, leadership, letterhead, line, lubber line, main current, mainstream, management, managing, manipulation, milepost, minute hand, mise-en-scene, monition, motion, motivation, mounting, movement, moving, name and address, needle, occupation, operancy, operating, operation, opinion, order, orders, other-direction, outlook, oversight, parley, pedagogics, pedagogy, performance, performing, pointer, pointing, political organization, polity, postal zone, practice, precept, prescript, prescription, private teaching, production, programmed instruction, prompting, proposal, recommendation, reeducation, regime, regimen, regnancy, regulation, rehearsal, reign, remonstrance, responsibility, road, route, rule, run, run-through, running, schooling, self-instruction, self-teaching, set, side, signboard, signpost, slant, sovereignty, spoon-feeding, stage management, staging, standpoint, steering, stimulation, stream, suggestion, superscription, supervising, supervision, sway, swing, system of government, teaching, tenor, the general tendency, the main course, thought, time spirit, tone, trend, tuition, tutelage, tutorage, tutoring, tutorship, walk-through, warning, way, work, working, workings, zip code, zone

Etymology
From directio:.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: посока,
 * Catalan: direcció
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: כיוון (kivun)
 * Korean: 방향
 * Latvian: virziens
 * Lithuanian: kryptis
 * Macedonian: насока, правец
 * Macedonian: насока, правец


 * Norwegian: retning
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: direcção, ,
 * Romanian: direcție
 * Romansch: direcziun
 * Scottish Gaelic:, , àird
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Armenian: ղեկավարում,,  կառավարում,  վարում
 * Bulgarian:, ръководство
 * Catalan: direcció
 * German:
 * Hebrew: ניהול (nihul)
 * Korean: 지휘
 * Latvian: vadīšana, vadība


 * Lithuanian: vadovavimas
 * Macedonian: раководство, раководење,  управување
 * Norwegian: ledelse
 * Polish: kierowanie
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * Catalan: direcció
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: בימוי (bimui)
 * Korean: 감독


 * Macedonian: режија
 * Malayalam: സംവിധാനം (samvidhānam)
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: reżyseria
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:


 * : iùl, cùrsa , rathad
 * : dirección
 * : diSa (diSa), dikku (dikku) (1,2), దర్శకత్వం (darSakatvaM) (3)
 * : diSa (diSa), dikku (dikku) (1,2), దర్శకత్వం (darSakatvaM) (3)

Anagrams

 * cretinoid

Etymology
Borrowed from directio, directionem.

Noun

 * 1) (spatial) direction
 * 2)  direction
 * 3) government
 * 4)  the director of the administration/organisation
 * 5) (occasional, figurative) the territory administered by a government