# directed

Pronunciation: say "di-REK-tid" /dɪˈɹɛktɪd/

## Verb

1. Past tense and past participle of direct. — simple past and past participle of direct
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of direct. Use this form for something that already happened.
   - _The committee directed most of the budget toward flood relief._
   - _He directed the documentary over two difficult years._

## Adjective

2. Expressed in a way that emphasizes the speaker's own point of view.
   - Simple: Said in a strong way that pushes the speaker's own opinion.
   - _The op-ed was sharply directed, foregrounding the writer's convictions at every turn._
   - _She gave a directed account of the dispute, framed entirely around her own perspective._
3. Having the properties of a directed graph, with edges that each carry a specific direction from one vertex to another.
   - Simple: Describing a network of points joined by links that each point in only one direction.
   - _The team modeled the road network as a directed graph, with each arrow marking a one-way street._
   - _In a directed structure, an edge from one node to another does not imply a return edge._
4. Of an ordered set, having an upper bound within the set for every pair of its elements.
   - Simple: Describing a group of ordered items where any two always have another item above both.
   - _The natural numbers form a directed set, since any two of them have a larger number above both._
   - _Mathematicians use a directed index set to define nets, generalizing the idea of a sequence._

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