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

(en noun)

A formal request for something.

# A formal demand made by one state or government upon another for the surrender or extradition of a fugitive from justice.

(Kent)

# (legal) A notarial demand for repayment of a debt.

(Wharton)

# (military) A demand by the invader upon the people of an invaded country for supplies, as of provision, forage, transportation, etc.

(Farrow)

# A formal application by one officer to another for things needed in the public service.

a requisition for clothing, troops, or money

That which is required by authority; especially, a quota of supplies or necessaries.

A call; an invitation; a summons.

a requisition for a public meeting