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abbreviation

director.

direxit.

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diptych, dipyramid, dipyridamole, diquark, diquat, dir., Dirac, Dirac constant, Dirac delta function, Dirac's constant, Dirac sea

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How to use dir. in a sentence

Wenn alle untreu werden, / So bleib' ich dir doch treu—Though all deny thee, yet will not I ever.
Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources|James Wood
Quin dir Eumenides monstraque Tartari His longe duce te finibus exulant.
Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects|Giorgio Vasari
Sicher, sg' ich dir, as Alles is' dein, Alles in Himmel gehr' zu dir!
The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century|Leo Wiener
As the centuries rolled on, this district of Swat, together with the valley of Dir, became a great headquarters of Buddhism.
The Gates of India|Thomas Holdich

Constantinople was again besieged, this time by a horde from the Russian wilderness under the chiefs Dir and Askold.
The Prince of India, Volume I|Lew. Wallace

British Dictionary definitions for dir.

dir.

abbreviation for

director

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