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DIRECTING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on
Example:
the directional role of science on industrial progress
Synonyms:
directing; directional; directive; guiding
Classified under:
Similar:
leading (going or proceeding or going in advance; showing the way)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb direct
Context examples:
Ever pointing upward, Agnes; ever leading me to something better; ever directing me to higher things!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
My soul and my stomach revolted at it; and yet, in a way, this handling and directing of many men was good for me.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Thirteen years had seen her mistress of Kellynch Hall, presiding and directing with a self-possession and decision which could never have given the idea of her being younger than she was.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Writing, thinking, and directing all at once might well bewilder the poor lady, and Meg begged her to sit quietly in her room for a little while, and let them work.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
This lack of selectivity in directing anticancer drugs is the cause of the often devastating side effects that cancer patients experience during chemotherapy treatment.
(Scientists successfully deliver “Trojan horse” catalysts into cancerous tumour cells to destroy them from within, Universities of Granada)
The act of directing or determining; regulation or maintenance of a function or action; a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another.
(Control, NCI Thesaurus)
You may be overseeing an estate sale, working on an auction, directing an archeological dig, or writing a screenplay or novel set in a previous era.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Edmund, between his theatrical and his real part, between Miss Crawford's claims and his own conduct, between love and consistency, was equally unobservant; and Mrs. Norris was too busy in contriving and directing the general little matters of the company, superintending their various dresses with economical expedient, for which nobody thanked her, and saving, with delighted integrity, half a crown here and there to the absent Sir Thomas, to have leisure for watching the behaviour, or guarding the happiness of his daughters.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I found that my landlord had got a letter from the Count, directing him to secure the best place on the coach for me; but on making inquiries as to details he seemed somewhat reticent, and pretended that he could not understand my German.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Elinor took no notice of this; and directing her attention to their visitor, endeavoured to support something like discourse with him, by talking of their present residence, its conveniences, &c. extorting from him occasional questions and remarks.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
