8.5.2 Direction
Use this domain for general words referring to a direction.
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(1) What words refer to a direction?
Example words: direction, orientation, course, way, bearing
What <way> did he go?; He headed in that <direction>.; Turn to a <bearing> of 270 degrees.
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(2) What words refer to facing in some direction?
Example words: face (v), point, orient
Turn and <face> north.; The temple <faced> east.; We buried him with his feet <pointing> west.; The captain <pointed> the ship into the wind.
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(3) What words refer to a person's ability to know what direction he is going in?
Example words: sense of direction
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(4) What words indicate that two things are going in the same direction?
Example words: with
We were carried down the river <with> the current.
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(5) What words indicate that two things are going in different directions?
Example words: against
The ship was sailing <against> the wind.