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Directive   Listen
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Directive  adj.  
1.
Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way. "The precepts directive of our practice in relation to God."
2.
Able to be directed; manageable. (Obs.) "Swords and bows Directive by the limbs."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Directive" Quotes from Famous Books



... and officially began operating on 18 September 1947. Effective 1 October 1947, the Director of Central Intelligence assumed operational responsibility for JANIS. On 13 January 1948, the National Security Council issued Intelligence Directive (NSCID) No. 3, which authorized the National Intelligence Survey (NIS) program as a peacetime replacement for the wartime JANIS program. Before adequate NIS country sections could be produced, government agencies had to develop more comprehensive gazetteers and better maps. ...
— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... weeks of agony in which the brain became the nutrient fodder of the growing Oren embryo, they were lost in the single communal mind of Oren, dead as individuals. The adult parasite assumed the bodily directive-function of the brain. The creatures so afflicted became mere cells in a total social organism now constituting a ...
— Collectivum • Mike Lewis
... a letter of directive to the appropriate departments and agencies of our Government, ordering that ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... Simmons, the vital representation of the complex life and individuality of General Logan and, even more, it must reflect and suggest the complex spirit of his age. In this martial figure was thus embodied a manifold and mysterious relation, as one of the potent leaders and directive powers in an age of tumultuous activities; an age of strife and carnage, whose goal was peace; of adverse conditions and reactions, whose manifest outcome was yet prosperity and national greatness and splendid moral triumph. All these must be suggested ...
— Italy, the Magic Land • Lilian Whiting
... state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation. And it is equally certain that the tastes and pursuits of our manhood will bear on them the traces of the earlier impressions of our education. It is therefore not unreasonable ...
— Decline of Science in England • Charles Babbage
... be doing what they couldn't; but ordinary directive ability is not born in a man; it's acquired by habit and training. Suppose fortune had reversed them at birth, the Gaunt or Tryst would by now have it and the Malloring would not. The accident ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy


Words linked to "Directive" :   Presidential Directive, directivity, dictum, leading, say-so, directional, directiveness


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