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Verb: direct di'rekt or dI'rekt- Command with authority
"He directed the children to do their homework" - Intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
"criticism directed at her superior"; "direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself"
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Adjective: direct di'rekt or dI'rekt- Direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short
"a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit" - 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"
- unmediated - Straightforward in means or manner or behaviour or language or action
"a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach" - In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child
"a direct descendant of the king"; "direct heredity"
- lineal - Moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth
- 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)" - (of a current) flowing in one direction only
"direct current" - Being an immediate result or consequence
"a direct result of the accident" - In precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker
"a direct quotation"
- verbatim - Lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact
"the direct opposite"
Adverb: direct di'rekt or dI'rekt- Without deviation
"went direct to the office"
- directly, straight
Derived forms: directs, directed, directing See also: absolute, bluff, blunt, brutal, candid, directive, directly, directness, director, door-to-door, exact, flat-footed, forthright, frank, free-spoken, honest, honorable [US], honourable [Brit, Cdn], immediate, man-to-man, matrilineal, matrilinear, no-nonsense, nonstop, outspoken, patrilineal, patrilinear, plain, plainspoken, point-blank, pointed, primary, related, square, straight, straightforward, straight-from-the-shoulder, straightness, through, undeviating, unilateral, unswerving, unvarnished, upfront Type of: apprise [Brit], apprize, care, command, control, create, deal, designate, destine, displace, do, enjoin, execute, handle, instruct, intend, label, make, manage, move, order, perform, plan, position, say, specify, tell Antonym: alternating, indirect, inverse, retrograde Encyclopedia: Direct |