1. [adv]  without deviation; "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office"
2. [adj]  exact; "the direct opposite"
3. [adj]  effected directly by action of the voters rather than through elected representatives; "many people favor direct election of the President rather than election by the Electoral College"
4. [adj]  direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short; "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit"
5. [adj]  (electricity) of a current flowing in one direction only; not alternating; "direct current"
6. [adj]  extended senses; direct in means or manner or behavior or language or action; "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach"
7. [adj]  (mathematics) varying in the same manner as another quantity; "a term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases)"
8. [adj]  (astronomy) moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth
9. [adj]  immediate or direct in bearing or force; having nothing intervening; "in direct sunlight"; "in direct contact with the voters"; "direct exposure to the disease"; "a direct link"; "the direct cause of the accident"
10. [adj]  in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker; "a direct quotation"; "repeated their dialog verbatim"
11. [adj]  in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child; "lineal ancestors"; "lineal heirs"; "a direct descendant of the king"; "direct heredity"
12. [adj]  as an immediate result or consequence; "a direct result of the accident"
13. [v]  plan and direct (a complex undertaking); "he masterminded the robbery"
14. [v]  specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public
15. [v]  command with authority; "He directed the children to do their homework"
16. [v]  give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction; "I directed them towards the town hall"
17. [v]  put an address on (an envelope, for example)
18. [v]  intend (something) to move towards a certain goal; "He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face"; "criticism directed at her superior"; "direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself"
19. [v]  aim or direct at; as of blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment; "Please don't aim at your little brother!"; "He trained his gun on the burglar"; "Don't train your camera on the women"; "Take a swipe at one's opponent"
20. [v]  guide the actors in (plays and films)
21. [v]  lead, as in the performance of a musical composition; "conduct an orchestra; Bairenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years"
22. [v]  direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
23. [v]  cause to go somewhere; "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation"
24. [v]  take somebody somewhere; "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance?"; "He conducted us to the palace"
25. [v]  be in charge of

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1. \Di*rect"\, a. [L. directus, p. p. of dirigere to direct:
   cf. F. direct. See {Dress}, and cf. {Dirge}.]
   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.
            What is direct to, what slides by, the question.
                                                  --Locke.
   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.
            He nowhere, that I know, says it in direct words.
                                                  --Locke.
            A direct and avowed interference with elections.
                                                  --Hallam.
   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.
   {Direct action}. (Mach.) See {Direct-acting}.
   {Direct discourse} (Gram.), the language of any one quoted
      without change in its form; as, he said ``I can not
      come;'' -- correlative to {indirect discourse}, in which
      there is change of form; as, he said that he could not
      come. They are often called respectively by their Latin
      names, {oratio directa}, and {oratio obliqua}.
   {Direct evidence} (Law), evidence which is positive or not
      inferential; -- opposed to {circumstantial, or indirect,
      evidence}. -- This distinction, however, is merely formal,
      since there is no direct evidence that is not
      circumstantial, or dependent on circumstances for its
      credibility. --Wharton.
   {Direct examination} (Law), the first examination of a
      witness in the orderly course, upon the merits. --Abbott.
   {Direct fire} (Mil.), fire, the direction of which is
      perpendicular to the line of troops or to the parapet
      aimed at.
   {Direct process} (Metal.), one which yields metal in working
      condition by a single process from the ore. --Knight.
   {Direct tax}, a tax assessed directly on lands, etc., and
      polls, distinguished from taxes on merchandise, or
      customs, and from excise.
   

2. \Di*rect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Directed}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Directing}.]
   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.
            The next points to which I will direct your
            attention.                            --Lubbock.
   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.
   Syn: To guide; lead; conduct; dispose; manage; regulate;
        order; instruct; command.
   

3. \Di*rect"\, v. i.
   To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.
         Wisdom is profitable to direct.          --Eccl. x. 10.
   

4. \Di*rect"\, n. (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. --Moore (Encyc. of Music).
   

5. \Di*rect"\, a. (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.