overriding executable in path with an aliased entry

Hello,

I just realized that there exists an executable called /bin/dir, which gets 
executed in preference to an alias'd 'dir' in my .bashrc. How can I ascertain 
that the aliased entries get preference over executables in my $PATH? (I 
thought it was logical for the shell to use the alias'd entries always, since a 
particular shielded entry can be forced by using the 
/full_path_to_executable/name ...?) 

This behaviour is from my latest install of Debian Sarge. 

$bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu)


Thanks,

-K

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