List of directions

Left, right, up, down, inside-out and around and around!

Photo of a clock
Alexkerhead / CC BY-SA

Ais forAnticlockwise

Anticlockwise, or counterclockwise is a circular direction around a central point, in the opposite direction to the way the hands on a clock turn. Anticlockwise goes towards the left.
Adverbs, Directions
Photo of a dog wearing a scarf
Aine D / CC BY-SA

Ais forAround

Around is in a circular way. The dog in the picture has a scarf around his neck.
Adverbs, Prepositions, Directions
Photo of a man walking away
Jeremy Raff-Reynolds / CC BY-SA

Ais forAway

Something is away from you if it is a distance from you, or is being removed from you. The man in the picture is walking away. Parents often take toys away from children as a punishment.
Adverbs, Directions
Photo of a bent railway line.
Les Chatfield / CC BY-SA

Bis forBend

You bend something when you change it from being straight into a curve. Someone has bent the metal bar in the picture.
Verbs, Directions
Photo of a clock
Roy Levien / CC BY-SA

Cis forClockwise

Clockwise is a circular direction around a central point, the same way the hands on a clock turn. Clockwise goes towards the right.
Adverbs, Directions
Photo of a detour sign
Monik Markus / CC BY-SA

Dis forDetour

A detour is a path taken that goes out of the way of your usual path. Detours are usually set up when there is some obstacle and there needs to be a way around it. Used as a verb, it simply means you are taking a detour, for example "I am going to detour past the shops on my way home".
Verbs, Directions
Photo of diagonal lines
Tanakawho / CC BY-SA

Dis forDiagonal

A line is diagonal if it is not straight up and down relative to things around it, or not horizontal or vertical. Diagonal lines are at an angle.
Adjectives, Directions
Photo of a weather vane
Paul Englefield / CC BY-SA

Dis forDirection

A direction is the way something is facing or moving. Most directions have names, like east, west, up, down, left or right.
Directions
Photo of a cat down a hole
Michael Cornelius / CC BY-SA

Dis forDown (direction)

Down is a direction. You go down when you go lower. The cat in the picture has just jumped down into a hole. The opposite of down is up.
Prepositions, Directions
Photo of a sunrise
Sean MacEntee / CC BY-SA

Eis forEast

East is a direction. The sun rises in the east each morning.
Directions

And also ...

Backward, Circular, Descend, Deviate, Deviation, Downhill, Forward, Headfirst, Low, Oblique, South, Trend, Uphill, Upright, Upward

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