DIRECT


Meaning of DIRECT in English

adj immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.

2. direct ·vi to give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.

3. direct ·adj in the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.

4. direct ·adj straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.

5. direct ·vt to point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.

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

7. direct ·noun 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.

8. direct ·vt 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.

9. direct ·adj 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.

10. direct ·vt 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.

11. direct ·vt 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.

12. direct ·add. ·adj 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.

13. direct ·vt 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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