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Defenition of the word direction

    • Defenition of the word direction

      • The management or direction of the affairs of a public or private office, business or organization.
      • An indication of the point towards which an object is moving or is going to move.
      • Something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action.
      • a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something; "the judge's charge to the jury"
      • a general course along which something has a tendency to develop; "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"
      • the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves; "he checked the direction and velocity of the wind"
      • a message describing how something is to be done; "he gave directions faster than she could follow them"
      • a line leading to a place or point: "he looked the other direction"; "didn't know the way home"
      • direction or advice as to a decision or course of action
      • the act of managing something; "he was given overall management of the program"; "is the direction of the economy a function of government?"
      • the act of setting and holding a course; "a new council was installed under the direction of the king"
      • the concentration of attention or energy on something; "the focus of activity shifted to molecular biology"; "he had no direction in his life"
      • a general course along which something has a tendency to develop; "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"
      • something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action
      • a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something; "the judge''s charge to the jury"
      • a line leading to a place or point; "he looked the other direction"; "didn''t know the way home"
      • the act of setting and holding a course
      • the act of managing something
      • the concentration of attention or energy on something
      • a general course along which something has a tendency to develop
      • a message describing how something is to be done
      • a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
      • a line leading to a place or point
      • the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves

    Synonyms for the word direction

      • administration
      • aim
      • bearing
      • charge
      • command
      • commission
      • control
      • counsel
      • counseling
      • course
      • focus
      • government
      • guidance
      • instruction
      • leadership
      • management
      • managing
      • objective
      • path
      • road
      • route
      • steering
      • supervision
      • target
      • tendency
      • track
      • trend
      • way

    Similar words in the direction

      • direction
      • direction's
      • directional
      • directionals
      • directions

    Hyponyms for the word direction

      • address
      • administration
      • aim
      • authorisation
      • authorization
      • bearing
      • canalisation
      • canalization
      • career counseling
      • celestial guidance
      • channelisation
      • channelization
      • command guidance
      • compass north
      • compass point
      • conducting
      • confidential information
      • course
      • cynosure
      • database management
      • destination
      • disenfranchisement
      • disposal
      • driving
      • east
      • east-west direction
      • empowerment
      • finance
      • formula
      • frontage
      • genetic counseling
      • guidance
      • guideline
      • handling
      • heading
      • hint
      • homemaking
      • inertial guidance
      • inertial navigation
      • lead
      • leeward
      • magnetic north
      • markup
      • marriage counseling
      • misconduct
      • misdirection
      • mismanagement
      • name and address
      • navigation
      • north
      • north-south direction
      • northeast
      • northwest
      • opposition
      • orientation
      • oversight
      • particularism
      • pilotage
      • piloting
      • point
      • prescript
      • prescription
      • qibla
      • recipe
      • road map
      • rubric
      • rule
      • seaward
      • south
      • southeast
      • southwest
      • stage direction
      • steer
      • steering
      • style
      • superintendence
      • supervising
      • supervision
      • system command
      • tendency
      • tenor
      • terrestrial guidance
      • tip
      • treatment
      • trend
      • west
      • wind
      • windward

    Hypernyms for the word direction

      • absorption
      • bid
      • bidding
      • command
      • concentration
      • content
      • control
      • controlling
      • dictation
      • disposition
      • engrossment
      • immersion
      • inclination
      • itinerary
      • message
      • path
      • position
      • route
      • social control
      • spatial relation
      • subject matter
      • substance
      • tendency

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