direção — meaning in English

English meaning

• direction noun The line or path along which something moves or faces.
• driving noun The activity of operating and steering a motor vehicle.
• hand noun The part of the body at the end of the arm, used for grasping and manipulating objects.
• point noun The sharp or narrow end of something.

Senses

direção is used for these senses in English:

• driving In particular, the action of operating a motor vehicle.
• hand A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
• point (heraldry) One of the "corners" of the escutcheon: the base (bottom center) unless a qualifier is added (point dexter, point dexter base, point sinister, point sinister base), generally when separately tinctured. (Compare terrace, point champaine, enté en point.) This is sometimes blazoned argent, four points gules; otherwise, it is vêtu.
• steering wheel A wheel-shaped control that is rotated by the driver to steer, existing in most modern land vehicles.

direction — full definition

1. noun The line or path along which something moves or faces.
2. noun Guidance or instruction about what to do.
3. noun The overall course a project, career, or plan is heading in.

driving — full definition

1. noun The activity of operating and steering a motor vehicle.
2. adj Powering or forcing something forward with great energy; intensely forceful, as of wind or rain.

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