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▪ I. diˈrecting, vbl. n.
[f. direct v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb direct (q.v.); direction (in various senses).
1530Palsgr. 213/2 Directyng, adresse. 1559Cunningham Cosmogr. Glasse 161 As touchinge the directing of anye shippe. 1632Star Chamb. Cases (Camden) 97 The countenancing of causes and directing of juries. 1751C. Labelye Westm. Br. 66 The Directing the Persons concerned therein, was committed to one Person only. 1890G. B. Shaw Fabian Ess. Socialism 119 The ‘directing’ of companies and the patronizing of nitrogenous Volunteer Colonels.
▪ II. diˈrecting, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That directs: see the verb.
1588J. Mellis Briefe Instruct. G viij, Aboue the directing line. 1670Devout Commun. (1688) 69 Some beams of thy directing consolatory light. 1719De Foe Crusoe (1840) I. xv. 259 A secret directing Providence. 1889Spectator 19 Oct., That is the true end of arranging work, and it is one which the directing classes do not forget when arranging work for themselves.
b. spec. directing-circle, a circle made of two hoops, one within the other, to guide sappers in the making of gabions; directing-plane (Perspective), a plane passing through the point of sight parallel to the plane of the picture; directing-point (Perspective), the point at which any original line meets the directing plane (Gwilt Arch. Gloss. 1876); directing-post, a finger-post on a road.
1851J. S. Macaulay Field Fortif. 66 The directing circle is then laid on a level piece of ground, and seven, eight, or nine pickets are driven at equal distances apart, between the hoops. 1876Directing plane, point [see director 3 f]. 1876Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 28 Reaching the directingpost where the road branched into two, she paused. |