Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no object or purpose; not guided.
- adjective Having no prescribed destination. Used of mail.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not directed; not guided; left without direction.
- adjective Not addressed; not superscribed, as a letter.
- adjective rare Misdirected; misled; led astray.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective not
directed
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective aimlessly drifting
Etymologies
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Examples
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So, you must let go of the idea that your preferred use of the term "undirected" is the only one.
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As we stated before, the term "blind undirected" is qualitative and sensitive to context.
A True Scientist 2010
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When our minds are much affected, so are the movements of our bodies; but here another principle besides habit, namely the undirected overflow of nerve-force, partially comes into play.
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I don't need to call program operations in the absence of a programmer 'undirected' or, worse yet, 'nature' to make the distinction between that and a direct intervention.
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I'd also say it's incorrect to consider those operations "undirected".
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First, since it is "undirected," then it might be possible to sell it to some other young woman, perhaps
'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006
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A wider-ranging analysis of the play's sexual politics emerges when we tease out the implications of the fact that this "undirected" or unaddressed letter can, it seems, be turned into cash.
'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006
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I've cut this because it seems to me that this paragraph uses "undirected" in a different sense to that used by ID proponents.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Taleb regards many scientific discoveries as black swans - "undirected" and unpredicted.
Qwaider Planet 2008
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Other than saying that, so far, my life has been a rather undirected and surprising trip, I don't feel I have much to say.
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