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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



... is called an "acolitus", at most a sub-deacon, who also did the work of a superior "acolitus". This is too poor a place for the chief writer of Denmark, high in Absalon's favor, nor is there any direct testimony that Saxo ...
— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")
... I have some influential friends to whom I will mention your name. Suppose, now, I could obtain a situation for you, how shall I direct the ...
— Paul the Peddler - The Fortunes of a Young Street Merchant • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... with walls of darkness. A feeling of helplessness and almost of utter hopelessness came over me. I was in this condition when God brought to my memory this long-forgotten story and applied it to my heart with a peculiar emphasis that made it a direct message ...
— Heart Talks • Charles Wesley Naylor
... the governor declared himself unwilling to take issue with the Holy Office on a doctrinal point, and privately added that it would be well for the Signorina Vivaldi to withdraw from Lombardy before the clergy brought any direct charge against her. To ignore this hint would have been to risk not only her own safety but that of the gentlemen who had befriended her; and Fulvia at once set out for Pianura, the only place in Italy where she could count ...
— The Valley of Decision • Edith Wharton
... Dutchman is nothing if not practical. He is very simple and direct in his nature, and is very likely to be equally so in his mental view. Edward's father was distinctly interested—very much amused, as he confessed to the boy in later years—in his son's discernment of the futility of the Spencerian style of penmanship. He agreed with the boy, and, next morning, ...
— The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward William Bok


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