Definition of direct

"direct" in the verb sense

1. direct

command with authority

"He directed the children to do their homework"

2. target, aim, place, direct, point

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"

3. direct

guide the actors in (plays and films)

4. direct

be in charge of

5. lead, take, direct, conduct, guide

take somebody somewhere

"We lead him to our chief"

"can you take me to the main entrance?"

"He conducted us to the palace"

6. send, direct

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"

7. aim, take, train, take aim, direct

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"

8. conduct, lead, direct

lead, as in the performance of a composition Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years"

"conduct an orchestra

9. direct

give directions to point somebody into a certain direction

"I directed them towards the town hall"

10. calculate, aim, direct

specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public

11. steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, head, guide, channelize, channelise

direct the course determine the direction of travelling

12. address, direct

put an address on (an envelope)

13. mastermind, engineer, direct, organize, organise, orchestrate

plan and direct (a complex undertaking

"he masterminded the robbery"

"direct" in the adjective sense

1. direct

direct in spatial dimensions proceeding without deviation or interruption straight and short

"a direct route"

"a direct flight"

"a direct hit"

2. direct, unmediated

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"

3. direct

straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action

"a direct question"

"a direct response"

"a direct approach"

4. lineal, direct

in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child

"lineal ancestors"

"lineal heirs"

"a direct descendant of the king"

"direct heredity"

5. direct

moving from west to east on the celestial sphere or

6. direct

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)"

7. direct

of a current) flowing in one direction only

"direct current"

8. direct

being an immediate result or consequence

"a direct result of the accident"

9. direct, verbatim

in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker

"a direct quotation"

"repeated their dialog verbatim"

10. direct

lacking compromising or mitigating elements exact

"the direct opposite"

"direct" in the adverb sense

1. directly, straight, direct

without deviation

"the path leads directly to the lake"

"went direct to the office"

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Quotations for direct

By direct ways. [ Motto ]

Better direct well than work hard. [ Proverb ]

Reason should direct and appetite obey. [ Cicero ]

Government should direct poor men what to do. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Unreasonable haste is often the direct road to error. [ Moliere ]

Grace is a light superior to Nature, which should direct and preside over it. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

The path which good order prescribes is the direct one, even though it has windings. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it. [ Mme. Roland ]

Rest not upon scattered counsels, for they will rather distract and mislead than settle and direct. [ Bacon ]

Do not then train boys to learning by force and harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds. [ Plato ]

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Cannon and firearms are cruel and damnable machines. I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the devil. [ Luther ]

The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins are in direct antagonism to each other. [ Abba Goold Woolson ]

Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment. [ Rabelais ]

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not onto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. [ Bible ]

I won't rule out direct talks with Kim Jong Un, I just won't. As far as the risk of dealing with a madman is concerned, that's his problem, not mine. [ President Donald Trump, Gridiron Club's 133rd Anniversary Spring Dinner, March 3, 2018 ]

The direct relation of music is not to ideas, but emotions. Music, in the works of its greatest masters, is more marvellous, more mysterious, than poetry. [ Henry Giles ]

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric. [ Bovee ]

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. He who is endowed with it may perform very good or very bad actions; all depends upon the principles which direct him. [ Napoleon ]

It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current. [ Fielding ]

Biography, especially the biography of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions from poverty and obscurity to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records. [ Horace Mann ]

Ages of ignorance and simplicity are thought to be ages of purity. But the direct contrary I believe to be the case. Rude periods have that grossness of manners, which is as unfriendly to virtue as luxury itself. Men are less ashamed as they are less polished. [ Warton ]

Two qualities are demanded of a statesman who would direct any great movement of opinion in which he himself takes a part; he must have a complete understanding of the movement itself, and he must be animated by the same motives as those which inspire the movement. [ Lamartine ]

We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic. A secretive and proud mind is cold and obscure in style. An affectionate and imaginative nature pours out luxuriantly, and blossoms all over with ornament. [ Beecher ]

The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or for evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain, and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread. [ Bryant ]

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner. He tries to compress as much thought as possible into a few words. On the contrary, the man who talks everlastingly and promiscuously; who seems to have an exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds so many words into his thoughts that he always obscures, and very frequently conceals them. [ Washington Irving ]

Whatever we may say against such collections which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem, to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of the mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant quotations." [ Goethe ]

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge: it is immortal as the heart of men. If the labors of the men of science should ever create any revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive, the poet will then sleep no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science, not only in those general indirect effects, but he will be at his side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of the science itself. The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of the respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings. If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on. as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the being thus produced as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man. [ Wordsworth ]

direct in Scrabble®

The word direct is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

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direct in Words With Friends™

The word direct is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

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Shorter words in direct

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