direct
— Verb
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～ give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction; "I directed them towards the town hall"
direct
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～ point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards; "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"
direct
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～ put an address on (an envelope)
direct
— Verb
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～ 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"
direct
— Adverb
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～ without deviation; "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office"
direct
— Adjective
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～ lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact; "the direct opposite"
direct
— Adjective
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～ (of a current) flowing in one direction only; "direct current"
direct
— Adjective
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～ being an immediate result or consequence; "a direct result of the accident"
direct
— Adjective
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～ in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker; "a direct quotation"; "repeated their dialog verbatim"
direct
— Adjective
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～ straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action; "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach"
direct
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～ direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short; "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit"
direct
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～ 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)"
direct
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～ having no intervening persons, agents, conditions; "in direct sunlight"; "in direct contact with the voters"; "direct exposure to the disease"; "a direct link"; "the direct cause of the accident"; "direct vote"
direct
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～ in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child; "lineal ancestors"; "lineal heirs"; "a direct descendant of the king"; "direct heredity"
direct
— Adjective
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～ moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth
direct correlation
— Noun
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～ a correlation in which large values of one variable are associated with large values of the other and small with small; the correlation coefficient is between 0 and +1
direct contrast
— Noun
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～ the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared; "in contrast to"; "by contrast"
direct antonym
— Noun
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～ antonyms that are commonly associated (e.g., `wet' and `dry')
direct action
— Noun
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～ a protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands
direct current
— Noun
– English
～ an electric current that flows in one direction steadily