bidirectional | (adjective) reactive or functioning or allowing movement in two usually opposite directions | - |
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dire | (adjective) fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless | Synonyms: desperate |
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(adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
direct | (adjective) direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short | - |
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(adjective) (of a current) flowing in one direction only | - |
(adjective) straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action | - |
(adjective) similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity | - |
(adjective) in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child | Synonyms: lineal |
(adjective) moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth | - |
(adjective) lacking compromising or mitigating elements | Synonyms: exact |
(adjective) in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker | Synonyms: verbatim |
(adjective) having no intervening persons, agents, conditions | Synonyms: unmediated |
(adjective) being an immediate result or consequence | - |
(adverb) without deviation | Synonyms: directly, straight |
(verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: engineer, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize |
(verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: aim, calculate |
(verb) command with authority | - |
(verb) give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction | - |
(verb) put an address on (an envelope) | Synonyms: address |
(verb) point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards | Synonyms: aim, take, take aim, train |
(verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, place, point, target |
(verb) guide the actors in (plays and films) | - |
(verb) lead, as in the performance of a composition | Synonyms: conduct, lead |
(verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: conduct, guide, lead, take |
(verb) cause to go somewhere | Synonyms: send |
(verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
(verb) govern or manage | - |
directed | (adjective) manageable by a supervising agent | - |
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(adjective) (often used in combination) having a specified direction | - |
directing | (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directional, directive, guiding |
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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 | - |
directional | (adjective) relating to or indicating directions in space | - |
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(adjective) relating to direction toward a (nonspatial) goal | - |
(adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directing, directive, guiding |
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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directionless | (adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: adrift, afloat, aimless, planless, rudderless, undirected |
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directive | (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directing, directional, guiding |
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(noun) a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity | - |
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 |
directly | (adverb) without deviation | Synonyms: direct, straight |
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(adverb) in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly | Synonyms: flat, straight |
(adverb) without anyone or anything intervening | - |
(adverb) without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening | Synonyms: at once, forthwith, immediately, instantly, like a shot, now, right away, straight off, straightaway |
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) | - |
direful | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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direfully | (adverb) in a direful manner | - |
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indirect | (adjective) not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination | - |
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(adjective) extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action | - |
(adjective) descended from a common ancestor but through different lines | Synonyms: collateral |
(adjective) having intervening factors or persons or influences | - |
(adjective) not as a direct effect or consequence | - |
indirection | (noun) indirect procedure or action | - |
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(noun) deceitful action that is not straightforward | - |
indirectly | (adverb) not in a forthright manner | - |
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indirectness | (noun) having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal | - |
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misdirect | (verb) put a wrong address on | Synonyms: misaddress |
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(verb) lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions | Synonyms: lead astray, misguide, mislead |
(verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
misdirection | (noun) management that is careless or inefficient | Synonyms: mismanagement |
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(noun) the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: distraction |
(noun) incorrect directions or instructions | - |
(noun) an incorrect charge to a jury given by a judge | - |
omnidirectional | (adjective) not directional | - |
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redirect | (verb) channel into a new direction | Synonyms: airt |
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subdirectory | (noun) (computer science) a directory that is listed in another directory | - |
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undirected | (adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: adrift, afloat, aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless |
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unidirectional | (adjective) operating or moving or allowing movement in one direction only | - |
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