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Direct   /dərˈɛkt/  /daɪrˈɛkt/  /dɪrˈɛkt/   Listen
Direct

adjective
1.
Direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short.  "A direct flight" , "A direct hit"
2.
Having no intervening persons, agents, conditions.  Synonym: unmediated.  "In direct contact with the voters" , "Direct exposure to the disease" , "A direct link" , "The direct cause of the accident" , "Direct vote"
3.
Straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action.  "A direct response" , "A direct approach"
4.
In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.  Synonym: lineal.  "Lineal heirs" , "A direct descendant of the king" , "Direct heredity"
5.
Moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth.
6.
Similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity.
7.
(of a current) flowing in one direction only.
8.
Being an immediate result or consequence.
9.
In precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker.  Synonym: verbatim.  "Repeated their dialog verbatim"
10.
Lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact.
verb
(past & past part. directed; pres. part. directing)
1.
Command with authority.
2.
Intend (something) to move towards a certain goal.  Synonyms: aim, place, point, target.  "Criticism directed at her superior" , "Direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself"
3.
Guide the actors in (plays and films).
4.
Be in charge of.
5.
Take somebody somewhere.  Synonyms: conduct, guide, lead, take.  "Can you take me to the main entrance?" , "He conducted us to the palace"
6.
Cause to go somewhere.  Synonym: send.  "She sent her children to camp" , "He directed all his energies into his dissertation"
7.
Point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards.  Synonyms: aim, take, take aim, train.  "He trained his gun on the burglar" , "Don't train your camera on the women" , "Take a swipe at one's opponent"
8.
Lead, as in the performance of a composition.  Synonyms: conduct, lead.
9.
Give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction.
10.
Specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public.  Synonyms: aim, calculate.
11.
Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling.  Synonyms: channelise, channelize, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer.
12.
Put an address on (an envelope).  Synonym: address.
13.
Plan and direct (a complex undertaking).  Synonyms: engineer, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize.
adverb
1.
Without deviation.  Synonyms: directly, straight.  "Went direct to the office"



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"Direct" Quotes from Famous Books



... slices, were spread in the sun to dry. As I continued my way down the valley I met several women and girls returning from the chestnut woods on the hillsides carrying baskets of these cepes on their heads. Although I hoped to sleep that night at Espalion, I soon left the direct road and struck off across country to the south-west in order to take in the village of Bozouls, a place that some soldier whom I had met told me was like Constantine in Algeria. I therefore left the valley of the Lot, ...
— Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine • Edward Harrison Barker
... the assumed uniformity of tidal retardation, that ten thousand million years ago the earth must have been rotating more than twice as fast as at present, and, therefore, that we geologists are "in direct opposition to the principles of Natural Philosophy" if we spread geological history ...
— Discourses - Biological and Geological Essays • Thomas H. Huxley
... witnessed the fall of the Egyptian supremacy which had succeeded the supremacy of Babylonia; it also witnessed the severance of western Asia from the kingdoms on the Euphrates and Tigris, and the consequent end of the direct influence of Babylonian culture. The Hittites established themselves in Syria "in the land of the Amorites," while at the same time other invaders threatened Canaan itself. The Israelites made their way across the Jordan; the Philistines seized the ...
— Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations • Archibald Sayce
... to direct attention also to the notes given on the extracts, and the purpose they are meant to serve. If no notes had been given some of the passages which are important or interesting historically would have been found too difficult for the boys ...
— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce
... infinite pains, suddenly threatening to be cried aloud in the streets for all, his boy included, to hear. Mary shuddered as she realized what the man must have felt. It must have seemed to him like the direct hand of avenging Providence. No wonder he at first could not believe it to be merely accident, coincidence; no wonder that he asked if Zoeth Hamilton had sent Crawford to him, and had demanded to know what ...
— Mary-'Gusta • Joseph C. Lincoln


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