directed

1. 1
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of direct. Use this form for something that already happened.

   She directed the school play last spring.

   The officer directed cars around the flooded road.

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2. 2
   adjective

   Said in a strong way that pushes the speaker's own opinion.

   Like someone who keeps steering the talk back to what they think.

   Her directed reply made her opinion impossible to miss.

   He spoke in a directed way, keeping the focus on what he believed.

   Similarsubjective, opinionated, slanted, partisan

   Oppositeobjective, impartial, neutral, balanced

3. 3
   adjective

   Describing a network of points joined by links that each point in only one direction.

   Like a map of one-way streets, where each road lets you go only one way.

   The class made a directed graph, drawing an arrow from each bus stop to the next.

   In a directed network, a link from A to B does not mean you can go from B to A.

   Oppositeundirected

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4. 4
   adjective

   Describing a group of ordered items where any two always have another item above both.

   Like a line of people where any two can always find someone standing further ahead than both.

   The counting numbers form a directed set, because any two of them have a bigger number above both.

   Any two members of a directed set always point toward a common item that comes after them.

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