| direction | (noun) the act of managing something | Synonyms: management |
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| (noun) the act of setting and holding a course | Synonyms: guidance, steering |
| (noun) a general course along which something has a tendency to develop | - |
| (noun) the concentration of attention or energy on something | Synonyms: centering, centring, focal point, focus, focusing, focussing |
| (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counseling, counselling, guidance |
| (noun) a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something | Synonyms: charge, commission |
| (noun) a message describing how something is to be done | Synonyms: instruction |
| (noun) a line leading to a place or point | Synonyms: way |
| (noun) the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves | - |
| directionality | (noun) the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive in one direction than in another | Synonyms: directivity |
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| (noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction | - |
| directioner | (noun) a fan on the band One Direction | - |
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| directive | (noun) a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity | - |
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| directiveness | (noun) the quality of being directive | Synonyms: directivity |
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| directivity | (noun) the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive in one direction than in another | Synonyms: directionality |
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| (noun) the quality of being directive | Synonyms: directiveness |
| directmate | (noun) A type of problem where White, moving first, is required to checkmate Black in a specified number of moves against any defence. | - |
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| directness | (noun) trueness of course toward a goal | Synonyms: straightness |
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| (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candor, candour, forthrightness, frankness |
| director | (noun) someone who controls resources and expenditures | Synonyms: manager, managing director |
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| (noun) the person who leads a musical group | Synonyms: conductor, music director |
| (noun) someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show | Synonyms: theater director, theatre director |
| (noun) member of a board of directors | - |
| (noun) the person who directs the making of a film | Synonyms: film director |
| directorate | (noun) a group of persons chosen to govern the affairs of a corporation or other large institution | Synonyms: board of directors |
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| directorship | (noun) the position of a director of a business concern | - |
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| directory | (noun) an alphabetical list of names and addresses | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk) | - |
| dirge | (noun) a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person | Synonyms: coronach, lament, requiem, threnody |
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| dirham | (noun) worth one tenth of a Kuwaiti dinar; equal 100 fils | Synonyms: Kuwaiti dirham |
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| (noun) 100 dirhams equal 1 dinar in Libya | Synonyms: Libyan dirham |
| (noun) 100 dirhams equal 1 dinar in Tunisia | Synonyms: Tunisian dirham |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Morocco; equal to 100 centimes | Synonyms: Moroccan dirham |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in the United Arab Emirates; equal to 100 fils | Synonyms: United Arab Emirate dirham |
| (noun) 100 dirhams equal 1 riyal in Qatar | Synonyms: Qatari dirham |
| dirigible | (noun) a steerable self-propelled aircraft | Synonyms: airship |
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| dirk | (noun) a relatively long dagger with a straight blade | - |
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| dirndl | (noun) a dress with a tight bodice and full skirt | - |
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| (noun) a full skirt with a gathered waistband | - |
| dirt | (noun) disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people | Synonyms: malicious gossip, scandal |
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| (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: filth, grease, grime, grunge, soil, stain |
| (noun) the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock | Synonyms: soil |
| (noun) obscene terms for feces | Synonyms: crap, poop, shit, shite, turd |
| dirtiness | (noun) obscenity in speech or writing | Synonyms: smuttiness |
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| (noun) the state of being unsanitary | Synonyms: uncleanness |
| (noun) the state of containing dirty impurities | - |
| dirtying | (noun) the act of soiling something | Synonyms: soiling, soilure |
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