change of direction reorientation | the act of changing the direction in which something is oriented |
Wild West Show Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show | a spectacular show organized in by William F. Cody that featured horseback riding and marksmanship on a large scale, toured the United States and Europe |
steering guidance direction | the act of setting and holding a course, a new council was installed under the direction of the king |
management direction | the act of managing something, he was given overall management of the program, is the direction of the economy a function of government? |
West Nile virus West Nile encephalitis virus | the flavivirus that causes West Nile encephalitis |
West Highland white terrier | small white longoated terrier developed in Scotland |
direction finder | radio, determines the direction of incoming radio waves |
Mae West air jacket | an inflatable life jacket |
University of West Virginia | a university in Morgantown, West Virginia |
sense of direction | an awareness of your orientation in space |
focus focusing focussing focal point direction centering | the concentration of attention or energy on something, the focus of activity shifted to molecular biology, he had no direction in his life |
direction | a general course along which something has a tendency to develop, I couldn't follow the direction of his thoughts, his ideals determined the direction of his career, they proposed a new direction for the firm |
guidance counsel counseling counselling direction | something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action |
direction instruction | a message describing how something is to be done, he gave directions faster than she could follow them |
stage direction | an instruction written as part of the script of a play |
West Germanic West Germanic language | a branch of the Germanic languages |
East Midland | the dialect of Middle English that replaced West Saxon as the literary language and which developed into Modern English |
West Midland | a dialect of Middle English |
Southwestern West Saxon | a dialect of Middle English |
West Saxon | a literary dialect of Old English |
East Germanic East Germanic language | an extinct branch of the Germanic languages |
Turfan East Tocharian Turfan dialect | a dialect of Tocharian |
Kuchean West Tocharian Kuchean dialect | a dialect of Tocharian |
West Chadic | a group of Chadic languages spoken in northern Nigeria, Hausa in the most important member |
East Chadic | a group of Chadic languages spoken in Chad |
West African | a group of languages spoken in the extreme western part of West Africa |
commission charge direction | a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something, the judge's charge to the jury |
acerola barbados cherry surinam cherry West Indian cherry | acid red or yellow cherry-like fruit of a tropical American shrub very rich in vitamin C |
East India Company | an English company formed in to develop trade with the new British colonies in India and southeastern Asia, in the th century it assumed administrative control of Bengal and held it until the British army took over in after the Indian Mutiny |
East Turkistan Islamic Movement East Turkestan Islamic Movement | a group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang, declared by China in to be terrorists although there is a long history of cycles of insurgency and repression |
Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development of countries in Asia and the Far East |
east | a location in the eastern part of a country, region, or city |
west | a location in the western part of a country, region, or city |
East Orient | the countries of Asia |
Far East | a popular expression for the countries of eastern Asia (usually including China and Mongolia and Taiwan and Japan and Korea and Indochina and eastern Siberia) |
East eastern United States | the region of the United States lying to the north of the Ohio River and to the east of the Mississippi River |
Midwest middle west midwestern United States | the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America) |
east side | the side that is on the east |
west side | the side that is on the west |
direction way | a line leading to a place or point, he looked the other direction, didn't know the way home |
east-west direction | in a direction parallel with lines of latitude |
north-south direction | in a direction parallel with lines of longitude |
West Occident | the countries of (originally) Europe and (now including) North America and South America |
West western United States | the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River |
Wild West | the western United States during its frontier period |
East Africa | a geographical area in eastern Africa |
Namibia Republic of Namibia South West Africa | a republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa), achieved independence from South Africa in , the greater part of Namibia forms part of the high Namibian plateau of South Africa |
West Indies the Indies | the string of islands between North America and South America, a popular resort area |
British West Indies | the islands in the West Indies that were formerly under British control, including the Bahamas, Saint Lucia, Antigua, Grenada, Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad |
French West Indies | the islands in the Lesser Antilles that are administered by France |