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direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

be in charge of

exact; "the direct opposite"

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"

direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short; "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit"

extended senses; direct in means or manner or behavior or language or action; "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach"

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"

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"

command with authority; "He directed the children to do their homework"

give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction; "I directed them towards the town hall"

guide the actors in (plays and films)

lead, as in the performance of a composition; "conduct an orchestra; Bairenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years"

of a current flowing in one direction only; not alternating; "direct current"

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)"

moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth

as an immediate result or consequence; "a direct result of the accident"

direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

be in charge of

exact; "the direct opposite"

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"

direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short; "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit"

(electricity) of a current flowing in one direction only; not alternating; "direct current"

extended senses; direct in means or manner or behavior or language or action; "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach"

(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)"

(astronomy) moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth

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"

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"

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.

Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.

In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.

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.

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.

To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.

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.

To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.

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.

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.

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.

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.

Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.

In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.

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.

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.

To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.

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.

To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.

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.

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.

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.

Straight; open; plain; straightforward; as, a direct manner of speaking.

To aim or drive in a straight line; guide or show.

To act as a guide.

Directness.

Directness.

Quite straight: straightforward: in the line of descent: outspoken: sincere.

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.

Straight, not deviating to either side.

Straight; straight forward; lineal.

To aim; point or guide toward; indicate a course to; order; address.

To point; aim; point out a way to (a person).

To regulate; control; govern.

To address, as a letter.

To act as a guide, conductor, or leader.

Straight; straight forward; shortest; nearest; plain; immediate.

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.

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.

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.

Not crooked or winding; straight; right; not circuitous; plain; open.

A mark in music to guide the performer from the last note of one stave to the first of another.

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.

Immediate, pursuing an uninterrupted and undeviating course; also made without the intervention of any intermediate substance or apparatus, as d. examination, direct ophthalmoscopy.

Occupying the same lateral half of the body as the lesion that produces it.

Occurring with or produced by the current; opposed to regurgitant; said of cardiac murmurs caused by stenosis of the orifices. [Lat.]

Straight, not crooked; not oblique; not collateral; apparently tending to some end; open, not ambiguous; plain, express.