Uk English Meaning of direct
direct
Other Uk English words related to direct
Nearest Words of direct
- direct action => Direct action
- direct antonym => Direct antonym
- direct contrast => Direct contrast
- direct correlation => direct correlation
- direct current => direct current
- direct discourse => Direct speech
- direct dye => Direct dye
- direct electric current => direct current
- direct evidence => direct evidence
- direct examination => Direct examination
Definitions and Meaning of direct in English
direct (v)
command with authority
intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
guide the actors in (plays and films)
be in charge of
take somebody somewhere
cause to go somewhere
point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
lead, as in the performance of a composition
give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction
specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public
direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
put an address on (an envelope)
plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
direct (a)
direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short
straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action
in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child
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
(of a current) flowing in one direction only
direct (s)
having no intervening persons, agents, conditions
being an immediate result or consequence
in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker
lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact
direct (r)
without deviation
direct (a.)
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.
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.
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.
direct (v. t.)
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 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.
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.
direct (v. i.)
To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.
direct (n.)
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.
FAQs About the word direct
direct
command with authority, intend (something) to move towards a certain goal, guide the actors in (plays and films), be in charge of, take somebody somewhere, caus
canalise,carry,channel,canalise,conduct,Focus,Funnel,pipe,consolidate,convey
comply (with),follow,keep,mind,obey,observe
dire straits => dire straits, dire => dire, dirca palustris => Leatherwood, diradiation => radiation, dirac => Dirac,
