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Direct

Adjective

Definitions

1.AdjectiveProceeding without deviation or interruption.
2.AdjectiveStraight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
"the most direct route between two buildings"
3.AdjectiveStraightforward; sincere.
4.AdjectiveImmediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
5.AdjectiveIn the line of descent; not collateral.
"a descendant in the direct line"
6.AdjectiveIn 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.
7.AdjectivePertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates.
"direct nomination; direct legislation"
8.AdjectiveHaving a single flight number.
9.AdjectiveNot employing the law of the excluded middle or argument by contradiction.
10.AdverbDirectly.
11.VerbTo manage, control, steer.
"to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army"
12.VerbTo aim (something) at (something else).
"They directed their fire towards the men on the wall.; He directed his question to the room in general."
13.VerbTo point out to or show (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; to refer.
"He directed me to the left-hand road."
14.VerbTo point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
"She directed them to leave immediately."
15.VerbTo address (a letter) to a particular person or place.
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