direction

Noun

1. A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination. May be relative (e.g. up, left, outbound, dorsal), geographical (e.g. north), rotational (e.g. clockwise), or with respect to an object or location (e.g. toward Boston).
   • Keep going in the same direction.
   • Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a...
   • 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...
2. A general trend for future action.
3. Guidance, instruction.
   • The trombonist looked to the bandleader for direction.
4. 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.
5. The body of persons who guide or manage a matter; the directorate.
   • I shall not rest satisfied with merely employing my capital in insuring ships. I shall buy up some good Life Assurance shares, and cut into the Direction. - 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in...
6. A person's address.
   • Her aunt Leonella was still at Cordova, and she knew not her direction. - 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 218: