direct
/di'rekt/
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Definition
Adjective:
- Straight, without deviation or interruption: Proceeding in a straight line or by the shortest course; not crooked or circuitous.
- Without intervening persons, agents, or conditions: Involving immediate connection or action; not through a medium.
- Frank and straightforward in manner or speech: Characterized by honesty and clarity, without evasion or ambiguity.
- Exact or literal: Corresponding exactly in wording or meaning; verbatim.
- In an unbroken line of descent: Related through a line of ancestors that are parents, grandparents, etc., without any collateral branches.
- Moving in a straight line or in one direction only: Used to describe things like current, light, or motion.
Adverb:
- In a straight line or by a direct route: Without turning aside; straight.
- Without an intermediary or intervening step: In immediate connection or relation.
Verb:
- To manage, control, or guide: To supervise the operations, course, or performance of something or someone.
- To aim or point something at a target: To cause something to move, face, or be sent toward a particular place, person, or goal.
- To give orders or instructions authoritatively: To command someone to do something.
- To show or tell someone the way: To give directions to a destination.
Examples of Usage
Adjective:
- Take the direct route to save time.
- She has direct access to the CEO.
- He is known for his direct and honest communication style.
- This is a direct quote from the president's speech.
- He is a direct descendant of the famous explorer.
Adverb:
- The plane flew direct to Tokyo.
- You can contact me direct via email.
Verb:
- She will direct the new film.
- Please direct your questions to the information desk.
- The officer directed the traffic away from the accident.
- Can you direct me to the nearest post office?
Advanced Usage
"Direct object" (Grammar): The noun or pronoun that receives the action of a transitive verb directly.
- In the sentence "She wrote a letter," "a letter" is the direct object.
"Direct current" (Physics): An electric current flowing in one direction only.
- This device runs on direct current (DC).
"To be direct": To speak frankly and without hesitation.
- To be direct, I think your plan needs more work.
Variants and Related Words
- Direction (n): The course or path along which something moves, or the management or guidance of something.
- We are heading in the right direction.
- Director (n): A person who supervises, controls, or manages an organization, project, or film.
- The director called for another take of the scene.
- Directly (adv): In a direct manner; immediately or very soon.
- I will be there directly.
Synonyms
- Straight (adj/adv): Extending or moving uniformly in one direction; without a curve or bend.
- Immediate (adj): Occurring or done at once; without any intervening medium or agent.
- Frank (adj): Open, honest, and direct in speech or writing.
- Manage (v): To be in charge of, administer, or run.
- Aim (v): To point or guide toward a target.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Direct at/towards: To aim something at someone or something; to intend something for a particular person or group.
- The criticism was directed at the management's policies.
- Please direct your efforts towards finishing this report.
Related Idioms
- Get to the direct point: To state the most important fact or issue immediately, without unnecessary details.
- Let's get to the direct point: are you resigning or not?
- A direct hit: A blow or shot that strikes its target exactly.
- The missile scored a direct hit on the enemy bunker.
Adjective
- lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact
- the direct opposite
- in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker
- a direct quotation
- repeated their dialog verbatim
- being an immediate result or consequence
- a direct result of the accident
- (of a current) flowing in one direction only
- direct current
- 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; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth
- in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child
- lineal ancestors
- lineal heirs
- a direct descendant of the king
- direct heredity
- straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action
- a direct question
- a direct response
- a direct approach
- 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 in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short
- a direct route
- a direct flight
- a direct hit
Adverb
- without deviation
- the path leads directly to the lake
- went direct to the office
Verb
- plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
- he masterminded the robbery
- put an address on (an envelope)
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public
- give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction
- I directed them towards the town hall
- lead, as in the performance of a composition; Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years"
- conduct an orchestra
- 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
- 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
- take somebody somewhere
- We lead him to our chief
- can you take me to the main entrance?
- He conducted us to the palace
- be in charge of
- guide the actors in (plays and films)
- 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
- command with authority
- He directed the children to do their homework