sense of direction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsenseanddirection
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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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 ofsenseanddirectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsense of direction
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The history of the idea of the self has a powerful newsenseofdirection.
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Despite their tireless efforts, caregivers may express lacking asenseofdirectionand purpose in what they do.
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Such a people consequently lack asenseofdirectionand focus, often becoming victims of crime, poverty, chaos, lawlessness, and underdevelopment.
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Grow up includes the notion of increased stature, involving more than just growing, but thesenseofdirectionis vague.
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It would also give asenseofdirectionand purpose to the classes for those who wished to remain.
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In the abstract, cognitive systems can be said to behave with asenseofdirection; their internal organization endows them with a kind of intentionality.
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One gets a vivid sense of movement and colour, amplified by an equally strongsenseofdirection.
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Nevertheless, the book would benefit from a more concerted authorial position, if only to give the reader a bettersenseofdirection.
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This essay seeks to begin to provide such a framework, and to offer asenseofdirectionfor future study.
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To define stability, then, we just need a foliation augmented with asenseofdirection.
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The imaginary society of that story dwells largely underground - an environment that permits littlesenseofdirectionor distance.
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Timing, self-control and asenseofdirectionare the secrets of multicopy plasmid stability.
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Puzzling as these features are, they do seem to belong with the distinctive qualities of the melody, producing music that has a strongsenseofdirectionand purpose.
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Substratum heaved and spluttered with the primal energy of a pool of lava and as little asenseofdirection.
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Our commitment is to provide them with a longer-termsenseofdirectionand a stable basis for defence policy and planning.
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Has he any alternative proposals so as to give a greatersenseofdirectionto this firm?
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Today, we provide certainty and a newsenseofdirectionand purpose based on modernisation and reform.
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We ask to be given asenseofdirection.
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I must do that and pay due regard to that while endeavouring to maintain a firm liberalsenseofdirection.
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