Direct
[daɪˈrekt] or [daɪˈrɛkt]
Definition
(verb.) command with authority; 'He directed the children to do their homework'.
(verb.) give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction; 'I directed them towards the town hall'.
(verb.) guide the actors in (plays and films).
(verb.) be in charge of.
(adj.) lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact; 'the direct opposite' .
(adj.) direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short; 'a direct route'; 'a direct flight'; 'a direct hit' .
(adj.) (of a current) flowing in one direction only; 'direct current' .
(adj.) straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action; 'a direct question'; 'a direct response'; 'a direct approach' .
(adj.) similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity; 'a term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases)' .
(adj.) moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth .
(adj.) having no intervening persons, agents, conditions; 'in direct sunlight'; 'in direct contact with the voters'; 'direct exposure to the disease'; 'a direct link'; 'the direct cause of the accident'; 'direct vote' .
(adj.) in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker; 'a direct quotation'; 'repeated their dialog verbatim' .
(adj.) being an immediate result or consequence; 'a direct result of the accident' .
Checker: Rene--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
(a.) Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.
(a.) Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
(a.) In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.
(a.) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body.
(v. t.) To arrange in a direct or straight line, as against a mark, or towards a goal; to point; to aim; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance.
(v. t.) To point out or show to (any one), as the direct or right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; as, he directed me to the left-hand road.
(v. t.) To determine the direction or course of; to cause to go on in a particular manner; to order in the way to a certain end; to regulate; to govern; as, to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army.
(v. t.) To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.
(v. t.) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to superscribe; as, to direct a letter.
(v. i.) To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.
(n.) A character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation.
Checker: Terrance
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1].Straight, in a right line, not crooked.[2].From father to son, not collateral.[3].Plain, express, categorical, unambiguous, not equivocal.[4]. Open, sincere, ingenuous, frank, outspoken.[5]. (Astron.) In the order of the signs, not retrograde.
v. a. [1].Aim, point, cast, turn.[2].Regulate, dispose, manage, conduct, control, govern.[3].Order, command, instruct, prescribe to, give directions to.[4]. Guide, lead, put upon the right track.[5]. Address, superscribe.
Edited by Jessica
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See INSTRUCT]
[See STRAIGHT]
Inputed by Jeanine
Definition
adj. quite straight: straightforward: in the line of descent: outspoken: sincere: unambiguous: unsophisticated in manner.—v.t. to keep or lay quite straight: to point or aim straightly or correctly: to point out the proper course to: to guide: to order: to mark with the name and residence of a person.—v.i. to act as director.—n. Direc′tion aim at a certain point: the line of course in which anything moves: guidance: command: the body of persons who guide or manage a matter: the written name and residence of a person.—adjs. Direc′tional; Direct′ive having power or tendency to direct.—adv. Direct′ly in a direct manner: without intermediary: immediately (in time and otherwise).—ns. Direct′ness; Direct′or one who directs: a manager or governor: a counsellor: a father confessor or spiritual guide: part of a machine or instrument which guides its motion:—fem. Direct′ress Direct′rix.—ns. Direct′orāte Direct′orship the office or a body of directors.—adjs. Directō′rial; Direct′ory containing directions: guiding.—n. a body of directions: a guide: a book with the names and residences of the inhabitants of a place: a body of directors: the Directoire or French Republican government of 1795-99.—n. Direct′rix a line serving to describe a circle.
Editor: Moll
Examples
- From Raymond there is a direct road to Edward's station, some three miles west of Champion's Hill. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There was no Adrian to superintend and direct, while whole flocks of the poor were struck and killed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She thought the praise not warm enough, and proceeded to direct attention to the various decorative points of her attire. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- By means of signals they could be informed where to direct their shots. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- These words, which conveyed to Elinor a direct avowal of his love for her sister, affected her very much. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Galileo soon thereafter greatly improved and increased its capacity, and was the first to direct it towards the heavens. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Tell all the first form to rise up and direct their faces to the wall. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- We were then led up to the door, where we were directed to get down on our hands and knees with our backs toward the room we were to enter. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- On the 12th of February I ordered Thomas to take Dalton and hold it, if possible; and I directed him to move without delay. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But those objects against which their envy seems principally directed, are the vices of the younger sort and the deaths of the old. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- We separate from Butler so that he cannot be directed how to co-operate. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- All their efforts had been directed to make her mother's room comfortable. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Therefore the young man, slightly too dictatorial, directed the guests to their places. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This arrangement was generally satisfactory, but the resistance-boxes scattered about the platform and foot-rests being in the way, Edison directed that some No. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Sherman responded to this attack on his lines of communication by directing one upon theirs. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She went on directing her conversation to the past, and seeming to recall its incidents, scenes, and personageswith singular vividness. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Arriving at Columbus on the 16th I reported by telegraph: Your dispatch from Cairo of the 3d directing me to report from Cairo was received at 11. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The novel feature of Plato's pedagogy was the plan to educate the directing classes, men disciplined in his own philosophical and ethical conceptions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Oh, he wanted love to be the directing power even of the mines. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Directing the pitching of the chair in an affable and easy manner, Mr. Bucket dismisses the Mercuries and locks the door again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They were all occupied with the poor girl, and I heard Mr. Woodcourt directing them and speaking to her often. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In general, every stimulus directs activity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Sir Leicester directs his majestic glance down one side of the long drawing-room and up the other before he can believe that he is awake. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The emphasis which directs his thinking bears most heavily upon the mechanics of life--only perfunctorily upon the ability of the men who are to use them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We may secure technical specialized ability in algebra, Latin, or botany, but not the kind of intelligence which directs ability to useful ends. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The lady who built the new part of this house as that tablet records, and whose son overlooks and directs everything here. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He directs the experimenter, for example, to take a piece of loadstone of convenient size and turn it o n a lathe to the form of a ball. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- This directs their action to a common result, and gives an understanding common to the participants. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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