DIRECT
\da͡ɪɹˈɛkt], \daɪɹˈɛkt], \d_aɪ_ɹ_ˈɛ_k_t]\
Definitions of DIRECT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
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be in charge of
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exact; "the direct opposite"
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effected directly by action of the voters rather than through elected representatives; "many people favor direct election of the President rather than election by the Electoral College"
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direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short; "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit"
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extended senses; direct in means or manner or behavior or language or action; "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach"
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immediate or direct in bearing or force; having nothing intervening; "in direct sunlight"; "in direct contact with the voters"; "direct exposure to the disease"; "a direct link"; "the direct cause of the accident"
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cause to go somewhere; "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation"
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command with authority; "He directed the children to do their homework"
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give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction; "I directed them towards the town hall"
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guide the actors in (plays and films)
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lead, as in the performance of a composition; "conduct an orchestra; Bairenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years"
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of a current flowing in one direction only; not alternating; "direct current"
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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)"
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moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth
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as an immediate result or consequence; "a direct result of the accident"
By Princeton University
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direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
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be in charge of
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exact; "the direct opposite"
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effected directly by action of the voters rather than through elected representatives; "many people favor direct election of the President rather than election by the Electoral College"
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direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short; "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit"
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(electricity) of a current flowing in one direction only; not alternating; "direct current"
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extended senses; direct in means or manner or behavior or language or action; "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach"
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(mathematics) varying in the same manner as another quantity; "a term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases)"
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(astronomy) moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth
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immediate or direct in bearing or force; having nothing intervening; "in direct sunlight"; "in direct contact with the voters"; "direct exposure to the disease"; "a direct link"; "the direct cause of the accident"
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cause to go somewhere; "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
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Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.
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Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
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In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.
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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.
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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.
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To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.
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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.
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To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.
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Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates; as, direct nomination, direct legislation.
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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.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
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Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.
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Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
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In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.
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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.
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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.
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To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.
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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.
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To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.
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Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates; as, direct nomination, direct legislation.
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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.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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Straight; open; plain; straightforward; as, a direct manner of speaking.
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To aim or drive in a straight line; guide or show.
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To act as a guide.
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Directness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Directness.
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Quite straight: straightforward: in the line of descent: outspoken: sincere.
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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.
By Daniel Lyons
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Straight; straight forward; lineal.
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To aim; point or guide toward; indicate a course to; order; address.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To point; aim; point out a way to (a person).
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To regulate; control; govern.
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To address, as a letter.
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To act as a guide, conductor, or leader.
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Straight; straight forward; shortest; nearest; plain; immediate.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Straight; onward, opposed to retrograde; in line, as of father and son, opposed to collateral; going in a straight line or course; not circuitous; straightforward; plain; express.
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A character placed at the end of a staff to direct the performer to the first note of the next staff. A direct interval, that which forms any kind of harmony on the fundamental sound which produces it, as, the fifth, major, third, and octave. Direct tax, a tax assessed on incomes, funds, houses, and lands, as distinct from indirect on articles of consumption.
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To aim in a straight line toward a place or object; to show the right road or course; to guide, conduct, or manage; to prescribe a course, sometimes with authority; to address.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Not crooked or winding; straight; right; not circuitous; plain; open.
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A mark in music to guide the performer from the last note of one stave to the first of another.
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To show the right road or course; to aim or point in a straight line; to regulate; to guide or lead; to order or instruct; to address as a letter.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Immediate, pursuing an uninterrupted and undeviating course; also made without the intervention of any intermediate substance or apparatus, as d. examination, direct ophthalmoscopy.
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Occupying the same lateral half of the body as the lesion that produces it.
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Occurring with or produced by the current; opposed to regurgitant; said of cardiac murmurs caused by stenosis of the orifices. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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