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direction
Noun
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A direction is a way to move or point.
"Where is the post office?" "I think it's that direction."
Which direction is north?
We were walking up Queen St. when she suddenly turned and starting walking in the opposite direction.
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Directions are steps that tell you what to do or how to do something.
Your doctors directions are to take two of these with water before eating.
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Direction is control or management.
The company is now under the direction of new owners.
flag
Noun
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A flag is a piece of cloth, usually marked with a colourful symbol or sign.
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A flag flown by a ship is to show the presence on board of the admiral (the leader of a group of ships); the admiral himself; or his flagship.
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The use of a flag, especially to show the start of a race or other event.
Be ready to start running immediately at the flag.
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On a computer, a flag is a variable or place in the computer's memory that keeps a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, usually either recording the fact that a certain event has happened or asking for a certain action to happen if it's an action that doesn't always happen.
flag
Verb
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If you mark with a flag, it shows the importance of something.
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(often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a car that's driving past, etc.
Please flag a taxi down for me.
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When a person flags, the person becomes weak, tired or feeble.
His strength flagged toward the end of the race.
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To signal or mark something that happened.
The compiler flagged three errors.
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To set the value of a variable in a computer program to true.
Flag the debug option before running the program.