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direct
English
- 🔊 lacking compromising or mitigating elements“the direct opposite”
- 🔊 direct in spatial dimensions“a direct route”
- 🔊 (of a current) flowing in one direction only“direct current”
- 🔊 straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action“a direct question”
- 🔊 similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity“a term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases)”
- 🔊 moving from west to east on the celestial sphere
- 🔊 having no intervening persons, agents, conditions“in direct sunlight”
- 🔊 in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker“a direct quotation”
- 🔊 being an immediate result or consequence“a direct result of the accident”
- 🔊 in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child“lineal ancestors”
- 🔊 without deviation“the path leads directly to the lake”
- 🔊 command with authority“He directed the children to do their homework”
- 🔊 give directions to“I directed them towards the town hall”
- 🔊 guide the actors in (plays and films)
- 🔊 be in charge of
- 🔊 put an address on (an envelope)
- 🔊 cause to go somewhere“The explosion sent the car flying in the air”
- 🔊 plan and direct (a complex undertaking)“he masterminded the robbery”
- 🔊 specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public
- 🔊 lead, as in the performance of a composition“conduct an orchestra; Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years”
- 🔊 take somebody somewhere“We lead him to our chief”
- 🔊 intend (something) to move towards a certain goal“He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face”
- 🔊 point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards“Please don't aim at your little brother!”
- 🔊 direct the course
Spanish
- 🔊 dirigir to direct
- 🔊 encaminar to direct, to guide
- 🔊 directo direct, straightforward