Direction vs Locate - What's the difference?
direction | locate |
The action of directing; pointing (something) or looking towards.
* 1835 , Sir , Sir (James Clark Ross),
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:
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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* 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,
To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
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To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of; as, to locate' a public building; to '''locate''' a mining claim; to '''locate (the land granted by) a land warrant (''Note : the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)
* (Herbert Spencer)
(colloquial) To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle.(intransitive)
As a noun direction
is the action of directing; pointing (something) or looking towards.As a verb locate is
to place; to set in a particular spot or position.direction
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(wikipedia direction)Noun
(en noun)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 .
- Her aunt Leonella was still at Cordova, and she knew not her direction .
- 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 .
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(locat)- The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter.
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- The Bat—they called him the Bat.. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.
- That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located .