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UK
/daɪɹˈɛktɪd/
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[ US /daɪˈɹɛktɪd, dɝˈɛktəd, dɝˈɛktɪd, dɪˈɹɛktɪd/ ]
[ US /daɪˈɹɛktɪd, dɝˈɛktəd, dɝˈɛktɪd, dɪˈɹɛktɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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(often used in combination) having a specified direction
a positively directed vector
goal-directed -
manageable by a supervising agent
a directed program of study
How To Use directed In A Sentence
- And, as I have patiently had to explain to costumers in shows I have directed, footwear is very important for the actor.
- Some of my remarks here are directed toward conventional scientists, who generally refrain from commenting critically on the wild ideas of a few of their colleagues because it is bad manners.
- Surrounded by musicians and men who directed its movement, and followed by child maskers, the Ijele begin to spin, slowly at first, then gaining speed.
- They took it in a very gentlemanly manner and directed me to a top-class agent. Times, Sunday Times
- Now the agitation in the country and the violent disorder it threatened could be directed against the Government.
- A cloud of gas that is gravitationally attracted to the black hole can have a net angular momentum oppositely directed from that of the black hole. Supermassive Black Holes Spinning Backwards Create Death Ray Jets? | Universe Today
- Katherine found herself smiling happily as if the compliment were directed at her own home.
- The evidence she’d gathered at the beach had already arrived, delivered by a young tech who’d sheepishly entered the den of the legendary Lincoln Rhyme without a word and scurried about to deposit the bags and stacks of pictures as the criminalist gruffly directed. The Stone Monkey
- The earliest printed cards sported a nautical theme directed at sailors, who were heavy tobacco users.
- After being housed in transit camps, many of the immigrants were directed to agricultural settlements (moshavim) (Zadok 1985; Lisak 1999). Yemenite Women in Israel: 1948 to the Present Day.