Noun

(en noun)

The action of directing; pointing (something) or looking towards.

* 1835 , Sir , Sir (James Clark Ross), Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1 , pp.284-5

Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction .

Guidance, instruction.

The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.

(archaic) An address.

* 1796 , , (The Monk) , Folio Society 1985, p. 218:

Her aunt Leonella was still at Cordova, and she knew not her direction .

The path or course of a given movement, or moving body; an indication of the point toward or from which an object is moving.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=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 four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}

* 1900 , , (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 .

Noun

(Co-driver) (en noun)

The navigator in the sport of rally racing, who sits in the front passenger seat and gives directions to the driver.

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, passage=According to Roberto Moreno, one of Mr. Haywood’s codrivers at Daytona and a veteran of 41 Formula One and 122 Indy car races, “No team takes better care of its drivers than Brumos.” }}