general direction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgeneralanddirection
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general
adjective
uk/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/us/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/
involving or relating to most or all people, things, or places, especially when these are considered as ...
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direction
noun
uk/daɪˈrek.ʃən/us/dɪˈrek.ʃən/
the position towards which someone or something moves ...
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(Definition ofgeneralanddirectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofgeneral direction
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They face in thegeneraldirectionrequired by this hypothesis but the placing of their doors often misses the position of the sunrise.
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Instead, they have one preposition ofgeneraldirection, which is used for a wide range of semantic functions.
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He steers by observing thegeneraldirectionand force of the wind and the motion and force of the water.
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In one instance the person became worried after seeing someone holding a mobile telephone looking in hergeneraldirection.
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The survey-specific analyses also pull in the samegeneraldirection, but they also highlight the importance of economic performance.
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The point is that more serious consideration needs to be given to thegeneraldirectionbeing taken.
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The role of the global planner is to provide ageneraldirectiontowards the target goal.
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Three items were reverse coded in the processing stage, in order to remain consistent with thegeneraldirectionof the scale.
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Thegeneraldirectionof change is towards strengthening and increasing the operational capacity of the security forces.
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Although the state has decentralized control, it still attempts to control thegeneraldirectionof the system through regulation, subsidy, recommendations, and guidelines.
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The mobile robot follows thegeneraldirectionprescribed by the operator.
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However, it is useful to discuss influences of winds on sea ice in relation to thegeneraldirectionfrom which they originate.
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This indicates that the effects of prosodic prominence were also detectable at vowel midpoints and were thus consistent with thegeneraldirectionof vowel raising and fronting.
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This means thegeneraldirectionof the chemical processes in a probiont reverses, and particular reactions are involved in the circulation incidental to another method the system is organized already.
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The outcomes generated by the model in these policy experiments therefore seem acceptable as reflecting at least orders of magnitude of the effects and theirgeneraldirection.
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She presents the issues as subtle and complex, and her proposals are sometimes rightfully tentative, though they clarify thegeneraldirectionshe believes literacy educators need to go.
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