direct
Part of speech: adj
adv
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dīrēctus, perfect passive participle of dīrigō (“straighten, direct”), from dis- (“asunder, in pieces, apart, in two”) + regō (“make straight, rule”). Compare dress. Doublet of derecho.
For the meaning development compare with Russian напра́вить (naprávitʹ, “to direct, to turn, to aim, to level, to point”), отпра́вить (otprávitʹ, “to send, to dispatch, to forward”) connected with пра́вить (právitʹ, “to govern, to rule, to drive, to steer”).
Inflected forms:
form: more direct
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most direct
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more direct
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most direct
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: directs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: directing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: directed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: directed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
pos: adj
gloss: Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
pos: adj
examples: the most direct route between two buildings
gloss: Straightforward; sincere.
pos: adj
examples: Be even and direct with me.
gloss: Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
pos: adj
examples: He nowhere, that I know, says it in direct words.
Nor did the government scruple a direct and avowed interference with elections.
gloss: In the line of descent; not collateral.
pos: adj
examples: a descendant in the direct line
gloss: 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.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates.
pos: adj
examples: direct nomination; direct legislation
gloss: Having a single flight number.
pos: adj
gloss: Not employing the law of the excluded middle or argument by contradiction.
pos: adj
gloss: Directly.
pos: adv
examples: The walls, which are fixed direct into the ground without a plinth, are made of wattle and plastered with a thin lair of mud or cowdung.
Presumably Mary is to carry messages that she, Anne, is too delicate to convey direct.
gloss: To manage, control, steer.
pos: verb
examples: to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army
Pent up in Utica he vainly forms
A poor Epitome of Roman Greatneſs,
And, cover’d with Numidian Guards, directs
A feeble Army, and an empty Senate,
Remnants of mighty Battels fought in vain.
gloss: To aim (something) at (something else).
pos: verb
examples: They directed their fire towards the men on the wall.
He directed his question to the room in general.
gloss: To point out to or show (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; to refer.
pos: verb
examples: He directed me to the left-hand road.
the next points to which I will direct your attention
gloss: To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
pos: verb
examples: She directed them to leave immediately.
I'll first direct my men what they shall do.
gloss: To address (a letter) to a particular person or place.
pos: verb
tags: dated
examples: [A]s I do not know where I shall be, and shall have my letters sent after me as soon as I do know, continue to direct hither.
Synonyms: patent
univocal
Antonyms: indirect
Related words: adroit
direction
directly
director
dirge
dirigible
dress
Derived words: direct access
direct action
direct activist
direct air capture
direct bank
direct broadcast satellite
direct buffer
direct case
direct cinema
direct client contact
direct cost
direct coupling
direct cremation
direct current
direct cut
direct debit
direct democracy
direct deposit
direct descendant
direct discourse
direct drive
direct election
direct evidence
direct exam
direct examination
direct fire
direct flight
direct free kick
direct grant grammar school
direct initiative
direct intent
direct-inverse marking
direct inward dialing
direct limit
direct mail
direct marketing
direct maternal death
direct message
directness
direct object
direct orange
direct primary
direct product
direct provision
direct question
direct quote
direct red card
direct registering
direct repeat
direct report
direct response
direct rule
direct selling
direct sequel
direct speech
direct sum
direct system
direct tax
direct-to-cell
direct-to-cellphone
direct-to-cellular
direct-to-consumer
direct-to-DVD
direct-to-home
direct-to-streaming
direct-to-TV
direct-to-video
direct verb
dreckly
foreign direct investment
hyperdirect
nondirect
non-direct buffer
semidirect
transcranial direct current stimulation
undirect
co-direct
codirect
directability
directable
directee
directrix
misdirect
outdirect
overdirect
overdirecting
redirect
redirective
stereodirect
subdirect
underdirect
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: أَخْرَجَ
roman: ʔaḵraja
lang: Esperanto
word: reĝisori
lang: Hungarian
word: rendez
lang: Indonesian
word: menyutradarai
lang: Kazakh
word: режиссерлік ету
roman: rejisserlık etu
lang: Polish
word: reżyserować
lang: Polish
word: wyreżyserować
lang: Russian
word: режиссировать
roman: režissirovatʹ
lang: Slovak
word: režírovať
lang: Swedish
word: regissera
lang: Danish
word: inscenesætte
lang: French
word: mettre en scène
lang: German
word: inszenieren
lang: Norwegian
word: sette i scene
lang: Polish
word: inscenizować
lang: Polish
word: zainscenizować