changed direction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofchangedanddirection
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changed
adjective
uk/tʃeɪndʒd/us/tʃeɪndʒd/
someone whose behaviour and character has changed a lot, ...
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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 ofchangedanddirectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofchanged direction
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Thechangeddirectionof patterns observed in 1982 on the snow surface on top of the peninsula, would tend to support this idea.
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The piece of icechangeddirectionand floated to the firm land.
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In the population, the transition from facilitation to suppression occurred where the gratingchangeddirection.
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Language development haschangeddirection.
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This dipolar fieldchangeddirectionwhen the background fieldchangeddirection, and this lead to the conclusion that we are dealing with an inductive magnetic field.
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A more striking finding is that managers in the open sector had higher income levels than professionals in the monopoly sector in 1988, but in 1995 the differentialchangeddirection.
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Among behavioural alternations of hosts following infection that may be simply side effects, there are reports of reduced mobility,changeddirectionof locomotion and altered zonation in gastropods.
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In the eleventh century (1044) a mill situated in the lagoons is already mentioned; it is driven by high and low tides and itchangeddirectionevery six hours.
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We have been taunted, occasionally laughed at, for havingchangeddirectionin our policies.
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When it went over a bump at a reasonable speed, itchangeddirection.
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The windchangeddirectionand the level rose about a metre above what had been reasonably forecast even an hour and a half earlier.
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They wriggled like anything,changeddirectionsuddenly, hurried backwards and forwards and concealed their retreat with a cloud of ink.
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Although it is said that 17 years for one government is enough, we need to remind ourselves that the tanker haschangeddirection.
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I asked whether the conditions had become too bright, whether the wind hadchangeddirectionor whether the temperature had dropped too much.
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We havechangeddirectionbecause we are investing in social housing, as we are committed to do.
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The problem is that, as the directive has developed, it haschangeddirection.
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Is it not time wechangeddirection?
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It was destroyed by thechangeddirectionof the flow of the river.
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This feature would cause characters to fall if they ran too fast orchangeddirectiontoo quickly.
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Winds fluctuated violently andchangeddirection, preventing the ship from remaining stabilized despite being within safe operating limits.
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