Director vs Direction - What's the difference?
director | direction |
One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (e.g., director of engineering''), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., ''film director ).
A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.
(chemistry) The common axis of symmetry of the molecules of a liquid crystal.
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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, 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,
Direction is a related term of director.
As nouns the difference between director and direction
is that director is one who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (e.g., director of engineering), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., film director) while direction is the action of directing; pointing (something) or looking towards.director
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Alternative forms
* directour (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia director) (en noun)Derived terms
* director circle * director conicAnagrams
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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 .
