in the direction of (something)

:  guidance or supervision of action or conduct :  management

:  the address placed on the outside of a letter or package to be delivered :  superscription

:  an explicit instruction :  order

:  some indeterminate or unspecified thing

:  a person or thing of consequence

:  one having more or less the character, qualities, or nature of something different

:  in some degree :  somewhat

: used as an intensive giving adverbial force to an adjective