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| Diremption | n. [ L. diremptio. ] A tearing apart; violent separation. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Direction | n. [ L. directio: cf. F. direction. ] 1. The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o&unr_; public affairs or of a bank. [ 1913 Webster ] I do commit his youth
To your direction. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] All nature is but art, unknown to thee;
ll chance, direction, which thou canst not see. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. That which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants. [ 1913 Webster ] The princes digged the well . . . by the direction of the law giver. Numb. xxi. 18. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. The name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; as, the direction of a letter. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly direction. [ 1913 Webster ] 5. The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors. [ 1913 Webster ] 6. (Gun.) The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object. Wilhelm. Syn. -- Administration; guidance; management; superintendence; oversight; government; order; command; guide; clew. Direction, Control, Command, Order. These words, as here compared, have reference to the exercise of power over the actions of others. Control is negative, denoting power to restrain; command is positive, implying a right to enforce obedience; directions are commands containing instructions how to act. Order conveys more prominently the idea of authority than the word direction. A shipmaster has the command of his vessel; he gives orders or directions to the seamen as to the mode of sailing it; and exercises a due control over the passengers. [ 1913 Webster ] | | directional | adj. 1. of or pertaining to direction (definition 2). [ WordNet 1.5 ] 2. serving to indicate direction. [ PJC ] 3. (Radio) transmitting radio signals in a specific direction, or receiving signals only from a narrow angle of directions, thus serving to indicate the direction from which radio signals are coming. Used of antennas; as, a directional antenna. [ PJC ] | | directionality | n. the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive to signal arriving from one direction than from another.
Syn. -- directivity. [ WordNet 1.5 ] | | directionless | adj. 1. purposeless. Opposite of purposeful.
Syn. -- adrift(predicate), afloat(predicate), aimless, planless, rudderless, undirected. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
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| | direction | (n) การควบคุม, See also: การจัดการ, Syn. management, control | | direction | (n) คำสั่ง, Syn. charge, regulation, injunction | | direction | (n) ทิศทาง, See also: แนวโน้ม, Syn. bias, bent, trend |
| | | | วิธีใช้ | (n) instruction, See also: direction, Syn. วิธีการใช้, Example: ผู้บริโภคควรศึกษาวิธีใช้ที่ข้างกล่องก่อนนำเครื่องมือมาใช้, Count Unit: วิธี | | ทิศทาง | (n) direction, See also: way, Syn. แนว, Example: รถหุ่นยนต์จะเคลื่อนที่ในเส้นทาง ตามทิศทางของขดลวดทองแดง, Count Unit: ทิศทาง, Thai Definition: ทางที่มุ่งไป | | ทิศ | (n) direction, Syn. ทิศานุทิศ, เบื้อง, ทาง, ข้าง, ทิศา, ด้าน, Example: กำแพงวัดทั้งสี่ทิศทาสีขาว ดูสะอาดตา, Count Unit: ทิศ, Notes: (บาลี/สันสกฤต) | | ก้ำ | (n) direction, See also: bearings, side, part, Syn. ด้าน, ฝ่าย, ทิศ, Notes: (โบราณ) | | การชี้ทาง | (n) direction, See also: guiding, showing, direction giving, leading, Syn. การแนะแนวทาง, การนำทาง, Example: ควรมีการชี้ทางและแนะแนวปฏิบัติให้เยาวชนเพื่อให้ห่างไกลยาเสพติด |
| | | | | | direction | (n) a line leading to a place or point, Syn. way, Example: he looked the other direction; didn't know the way home | | direction | (n) the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves, Example: he checked the direction and velocity of the wind | | direction | (n) a general course along which something has a tendency to develop, Example: 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 | | direction | (n) a message describing how something is to be done, Syn. instruction, Example: he gave directions faster than she could follow them | | directional | (adj) relating to or indicating directions in space, Ant. omnidirectional, Example: a directional microphone | | directional | (adj) relating to direction toward a (nonspatial) goal, Example: he tried to explain the directional trends of modern science | | directional antenna | (n) an antenna that transmits or receives signals only in a narrow angle | | directionality | (n) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction, Example: the directionality of written English is from left to right | | directional microphone | (n) a microphone that is designed to receive sound from a particular direction | | direction finder | (n) radio; determines the direction of incoming radio waves |
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