Direction vs Summons - What's the difference?
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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,
A call to do something, especially to come.
* Hallam
* Bishop Fell
* Sir J. Hayward
(legal) A notice summoning someone to appear in court, as a defendant, juror or witness.
(military) A demand for surrender.
To serve someone with a summons.
* 2007', It proposes that those held in the prototype Selfridges cells be kept for a maximum of four hours to have their identity confirmed and be charged, '''summonsed or given a fine. — ''The Guardian , 15 Mar 2007, p. 1
(summon)
Direction is a related term of summons.
As nouns the difference between direction and summons
is that direction is the action of directing; pointing (something) or looking towards while summons is a call to do something, especially to come.As a verb summons is
to serve someone with a summons or summons can be (summon).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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Etymology 1
From (etyl) sumunce (modern French semonce), from popular (etyl) .Noun
(es)- special summonses by the king
- this summons unfit either to dispute or disobey
- He sent to summon the seditious, and to offer pardon; but neither summons nor pardon was regarded.