That would break the Prime Directive.
Source: tatoeba (2220041)
Directive
//dəˈɹɛk.tɪv//
Synonyms for "directive" (105 found)
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Closest matches (21)
Strong matches (32)
Related words (52)
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1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
12 entrieshas context
3 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
16 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
79 translations across 23 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- հրահանգ noun (form of legislative act addressed to the EU member states)
Bulgarian
4 entries- направляващ adj (that directs; serving to direct, indicate, or guide)
- ръководещ adj (that directs; serving to direct, indicate, or guide)
- директи́ва noun (authoritative decision)
- директи́ва noun (form of legislative act addressed to the EU member states)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 指示 noun (instruction or guideline)
Czech
1 entries- směrnice noun (form of legislative act addressed to the EU member states)
Danish
3 entries- direktiv noun (instruction or guideline)
- direktiv noun (authoritative decision)
- direktiv noun (form of legislative act addressed to the EU member states)
Dutch
4 entries- wijzend adj (that directs; serving to direct, indicate, or guide)
- instructie noun (instruction or guideline)
- richtlijn noun (instruction or guideline)
- richtlijn noun (authoritative decision)
Estonian
3 entries- direktiiv noun (form of legislative act addressed to the EU member states)
- juhind noun (form of legislative act addressed to the EU member states)
- käskkiri noun (authoritative decision)
Finnish
4 entries- direktiivinen adj (grammar: relating to directive case)
- johtava adj (that directs; serving to direct, indicate, or guide)
- määräävä adj (that directs; serving to direct, indicate, or guide)
- ohjaava adj (that directs; serving to direct, indicate, or guide)
French
4 entries- directif adj (that directs; serving to direct, indicate, or guide)
- directive adj (that directs; serving to direct, indicate, or guide)
- directive noun (instruction or guideline)
- directive noun (authoritative decision)
German
4 entries- Anordnung noun (authoritative decision)
- Anweisung noun (authoritative decision)
- Befehl noun (authoritative decision)
- Direktive noun (authoritative decision)
Hindi
2 entries- निदेश noun (instruction or guideline)
- निदेश noun (authoritative decision)
Hungarian
4 entries- direktíva noun (instruction or guideline)
- direktíva noun (authoritative decision)
- irányelv noun (authoritative decision)
- irányelv noun (form of legislative act addressed to the EU member states)
Ido
1 entries- direktiva adj (that directs; serving to direct, indicate, or guide)
Irish
1 entries- treoir noun (instruction or guideline)
Japanese
1 entries- 指示 noun (instruction or guideline)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- direktiv noun (instruction or guideline)
- direktiv noun (authoritative decision)
- direktiv noun (form of legislative act addressed to the EU member states)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- direktiv noun (instruction or guideline)
- direktiv noun (authoritative decision)
- direktiv noun (form of legislative act addressed to the EU member states)
Polish
3 entries- dyrektywa noun (instruction or guideline)
- dyrektywa noun (authoritative decision)
- dyrektywa noun (form of legislative act addressed to the EU member states)
Portuguese
2 entries- directiva noun (instruction or guideline)
- directiva noun (form of legislative act addressed to the EU member states)
Russian
4 entries- направля́ющий adj (that directs; serving to direct, indicate, or guide)
- руководя́щий adj (that directs; serving to direct, indicate, or guide)
- директи́ва noun (instruction or guideline)
- директи́ва noun (authoritative decision)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- smernica noun (instruction or guideline)
Slovak
4 entries- direktíva noun (authoritative decision)
- nariadenie noun (authoritative decision)
- smernica noun (instruction or guideline)
- smernica noun (authoritative decision)
Spanish
2 entries- directiva adj (that directs; serving to direct, indicate, or guide)
- directiva noun (instruction or guideline)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
We received a new directive from the board yesterday. They want us to focus on our most visible projects.
Source: tatoeba (2337158)
I expect the board to issue a new directive that cancels the old one.
Source: tatoeba (2514675)
"@implementation" is a compiler directive that says you’re about to present the code for the guts of a class.
Source: tatoeba (2756696)
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