Friday, March 2, 2012

Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: direction

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Mar 2nd 2012, 13:21

Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|kryptis|f}}

 

* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|kryptis|f}}

 

* [[Macedonian]]: {{t|mk|насока|f|tr=násoka}}, {{t|mk|правец|m|tr=právec}}

 

* [[Macedonian]]: {{t|mk|насока|f|tr=násoka}}, {{t|mk|правец|m|tr=právec}}

* Norwegian: {{t|no|retning|m+f}}

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* Norwegian: {{t|no|retning|m|f}}

 

* Polish: {{t+|pl|kierunek|m}}

 

* Polish: {{t+|pl|kierunek|m}}

 

* Portuguese: [[direcção]], {{f}}, {{qualifier|Brazil}} {{t+|pt|direção|f}}

 

* Portuguese: [[direcção]], {{f}}, {{qualifier|Brazil}} {{t+|pt|direção|f}}


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English

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Etymology

From Latin dīrēctiō.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA: /dəˈɹɛk.ʃən/, /dɪˈɹɛk.ʃən/, /daɪˈɹɛk.ʃən/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛkʃən

Noun

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.
    • 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.

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Translations

indication of the point toward which an object is moving

work of the director (manager)

work of the director in cinema or theater

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin directio, directionem.

Pronunciation

Noun

direction f. (plural directions)

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

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