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direction

Roget category 278

2. Words relating to space
2.4. Motion
›› 2.4.4. Motion with reference to direction

#278. Direction

noun

direction, bearing, course, vectorset, drift, tenortendency etc. 176incidencebending, trending etc. v. — dip, tack, aim, collimationsteering steerage.
point of the compass, cardinal pointsNorth East, South, WestN by E, ENE, NE by N, NE, &c. — rhumb, azimuth, line of collimation.
line, path, road, range, quarter, line of marchalignment, allignmentair line, beelinestraight shoot.

verb

tend towards, bend towards, point towardsconduct to, go topoint to, point atbend, trend, verge, incline, dip, determine.
steer for, steer towards, make for, make towardsaim at, level at take aimkeep a course, hold a coursebe bound forbend one's steps towardsdirect one's course, steer one's course, bend one's course, shape one's coursealign one's march, allign one's marchto straight, go straight to the pointmarch on, march on a point.
ascertain one's direction etc. n. — s'orienter [Fr.], see which way the wind blowsbox the compasstake the air line.

adjective

directed etc. v.. directed towardspointing towards etc. v. — bound foraligned, with alligned withdirect, straightundeviating, unswervingstraightforwardNorth, Northern, Northerly, etc. n..

adverb

towardson the road, on the high road toen avant versus, tohither, thither, whitherdirectlystraight as an arrow, forwards as an arrowpoint blankin a bee line to, in a direct line to, as the crow flies, in a straight line to, in a bee line for, in a direct line for, in a straight line for, in a bee line with, in a direct line with, in a straight line within a line withfull tilt at, as the crow flies.
before the wind, near the wind, close to the wind, against the windwindwards, in the wind's eye.
through, via, by way ofin all directions, in all manner of waysquaquaversum [Lat.], from the four winds.

phrase

the shortest distance between two points is a the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

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