Direct Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time. |
| 2. | to regulate the course of; control: History is directed by a small number of great men and women. |
| 3. | to administer; manage; supervise: She directs the affairs of the estate. |
| 4. | to give authoritative instructions to; command; order or ordain: I directed him to leave the room. |
| 5. | to serve as a director in the production or performance of (a musical work, play, motion picture, etc.). |
| 6. | to guide, tell, or show (a person) the way to a place: I directed him to the post office. |
| 7. | to point, aim, or send toward a place or object: to direct radio waves around the globe. |
| 8. | to channel or focus toward a given result, object, or end (often fol. by to or toward): She directed all her energies toward the accomplishment of the work. |
| 9. | to address (words, a speech, a written report, etc.) to a person or persons: The secretary directed his remarks to two of the committee members. |
| 10. | to address (a letter, package, etc.) to an intended recipient. |
–verb (used without object)
| 12. | to give commands or orders. |
| 13. | to serve as the director of a play, film, orchestra, etc. |
–adjective | 14. | proceeding in a straight line or by the shortest course; straight; undeviating; not oblique: a direct route. |
| 15. | proceeding in an unbroken line of descent; lineal rather than collateral: a direct descendant. |
| 16. | Mathematics. | a. | (of a proportion) containing terms of which an increase (or decrease) in one results in an increase (or decrease) in another: a term is said to be in direct proportion to another term if one increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases). |
| b. | (of a function) the function itself, in contrast to its inverse. Compare inverse (def. 2). |
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| 17. | without intervening persons, influences, factors, etc.; immediate; personal: direct contact with the voters; direct exposure to a disease. |
| 18. | straightforward; frank; candid: the direct remarks of a forthright individual. |
| 19. | absolute; exact: the direct opposite. |
| 20. | consisting exactly of the words originally used; verbatim: direct quotation. |
| 21. | Government. of or by action of voters, which takes effect without any intervening agency such as representatives. |
| 22. | inevitable; consequential: War will be a direct result of such political action. |
| 23. | allocated for or arising from a particular known agency, process, job, etc.: The new machine was listed by the accountant as a direct cost. |
| 24. | Electricity. of or pertaining to direct current. |
| 25. | Astronomy. | a. | moving in an orbit in the same direction as the earth in its revolution around the sun. |
| b. | appearing to move on the celestial sphere in the direction of the natural order of the signs of the zodiac, from west to east. Compare retrograde (def. 4). |
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| 26. | Surveying. (of a telescope) in its normal position; not inverted or transited. |
| 27. | (of dye colors) working without the use of a mordant; substantive. |
–adverb | 28. | in a direct manner; directly; straight: Answer me direct. |
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