Direct
Definition of Direct
Di`rect´ | a. | 1. | Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means. | | 2. | Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.Be even and direct with me. - Shak. | | 3. | Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous. | | 4. | In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line. | | 5. | (Astron.) 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. | | 6. | (Political Science) 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. | | v. t. | 1. | 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. | | 2. | 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.The Lord direct your into the love of God. - 2 Thess. iii. 5. | | 3. | 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.I will direct their work in truth. - Is. lxi. 8. | | 4. | To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.I 'll first direct my men what they shall do. - Shak. | | 5. | 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. | | v. i. | 1. | To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide. | | n. | 1. | (Mus.) 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. |
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