Defn: A lamp with lenses or reflectors to collect the rays of light and throw them in a given direction; -- used in lighthouses.
Having the same direction or course as the movement of the hands of a watch seen in front; -- said of the motion of a revolving object looked at from a given direction.
Defn: A device to magnify sound, or direct it in a given direction in a greater volume, as a very large funnel used as an ear trumpet or as a speaking trumpet.
A lamp with lenses or reflectors to collect the rays of light and throw them in a given direction; -- used in lighthouses.
To use an Irish bull, as long as a man knows what he desires there is no desire; there is movement or endeavor in a given direction.
Choice, preference, is originally only a bias in a given direction, a bias which is no more subjective or psychical than is the fact that a ball thrown is swerving in a particular direction rather than in some other curve.
That heightened facility of expression in a given direction which is called habit may offset a considerable increase in the resistance offered by external circumstances to the unfolding of life in the given direction.
A marked variation in a given direction at any one point carries with it, as its correlative, a concomitant variation in the habitual expression of life in other directions or other groups of activities.
IV I turn to another point, in some respects the most important of all; I refer to the readiness with which we interpret as the remarkable frequency of coincidences what is due to a strong interest in a given direction.
As a general rule we can say that, for a given direction of the wave-fronts, the vibrations must have a determinate direction, if the propagation is to take place according to the simple formula given above.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "given direction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
