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Dictionary Results for direct: |
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
direct
adv 1: without deviation; "the path leads directly to the lake";
"went direct to the office" [syn: directly, straight,
direct]
adj 1: direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without
deviation or interruption; straight and short; "a direct
route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit" [ant:
indirect]
2: 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" [syn: direct, unmediated]
3: straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or
action; "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct
approach" [ant: indirect]
4: in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child;
"lineal ancestors"; "lineal heirs"; "a direct descendant of
the king"; "direct heredity" [syn: lineal, direct] [ant:
collateral, indirect]
5: moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for
planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth
[ant: retrograde]
6: 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)" [ant: inverse]
7: (of a current) flowing in one direction only; "direct
current" [ant: alternating]
8: being an immediate result or consequence; "a direct result of
the accident"
9: in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker; "a
direct quotation"; "repeated their dialog verbatim" [syn:
direct, verbatim]
10: lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact; "the
direct opposite"
v 1: command with authority; "He directed the children to do
their homework"
2: 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" [syn: target, aim, place, direct,
point]
3: guide the actors in (plays and films)
4: be in charge of
5: take somebody somewhere; "We lead him to our chief"; "can you
take me to the main entrance?"; "He conducted us to the
palace" [syn: lead, take, direct, conduct, guide]
6: 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" [syn: send, direct]
7: 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" [syn: aim, take, train, take aim, direct]
8: lead, as in the performance of a composition; "conduct an
orchestra; Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for
years" [syn: conduct, lead, direct]
9: give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction;
"I directed them towards the town hall"
10: specifically design a product, event, or activity for a
certain public [syn: calculate, aim, direct]
11: direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
[syn: steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre,
direct, point, head, guide, channelize,
channelise]
12: put an address on (an envelope) [syn: address, direct]
13: plan and direct (a complex undertaking); "he masterminded
the robbery" [syn: mastermind, engineer, direct,
organize, organise, orchestrate]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Tax \Tax\, n. [F. taxe, fr. taxer to tax, L. taxare to touch,
sharply, to feel, handle, to censure, value, estimate, fr.
tangere, tactum, to touch. See Tangent, and cf. Task,
Taste.]
1. A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed
by authority. Specifically:
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(a) A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for
the support of a government.
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A farmer of taxes is, of all creditors,
proverbially the most rapacious. --Macaulay.
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(b) Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon
polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a
window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.
Note: Taxes are annual or perpetual, direct or
indirect, etc.
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(c) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society
to defray its expenses.
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2. A task exacted from one who is under control; a
contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed
upon a subject.
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3. A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy
tax on time or health.
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4. Charge; censure. [Obs.] --Clarendon.
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5. A lesson to be learned; a task. [Obs.] --Johnson.
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Tax cart, a spring cart subject to a low tax. [Eng.]
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Syn: Impost; tribute; contribution; duty; toll; rate;
assessment; exaction; custom; demand.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Direct \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.
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What is direct to, what slides by, the question.
--Locke.
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2. Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from
truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.
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Be even and direct with me. --Shak.
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3. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
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He nowhere, that I know, says it in direct words.
--Locke.
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A direct and avowed interference with elections.
--Hallam.
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4. In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant
in the direct line.
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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.
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6. (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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Direct action.
(a) (Mach.) See Direct-acting.
(b) (Trade unions) See Syndicalism, below. [Webster 1913
Suppl.]
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 evidence, 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.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Direct \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.
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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.
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The Lord direct your into the love of God. --2
Thess. iii. 5.
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The next points to which I will direct your
attention. --Lubbock.
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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.
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I will direct their work in truth. --Is. lxi. 8.
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4. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior;
to order; as, he directed them to go.
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I 'll first direct my men what they shall do.
--Shak.
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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.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Direct \Di*rect"\, v. i.
To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.
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Wisdom is profitable to direct. --Eccl. x. 10.
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Direct \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).
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7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) |
DIRECT. Straight forward; not collateral.
2. The direct line of descents for example, is formed by a series of
degrees between persons who descend one from another. Civ. Code of Lo. art.
886.
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