Direction

Portuguese Meaning

English Meaning

1. The act or function of directing.
2. Management, supervision, or guidance of an action or operation.
3. The art or action of musical or theatrical directing.
4. Music A word or phrase in a score indicating how a passage is to be played or sung.
5. An instruction or series of instructions for doing or finding something. Often used in the plural.
6. An authoritative indication; an order or command.
7. The distance-independent relationship between two points in space that specifies the angular position of either with respect to the other; the relationship by which the alignment or orientation of any position with respect to any other position is established.
8. A position to which motion or another position is referred.
9. A line leading to a place or point.
10. The line or course along which a person or thing moves.
11. The statement in degrees of the angle measured between due north and a given line or course on a compass.
12. A course or area of development; a tendency toward a particular end or goal: charting a new direction for the company.