Direct is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DIRECT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to control or conduct the affairs of
• control the operations of; manage or govern
• supervise and control (a film, play, or other production, or the actors in it)
• train and conduct (a group of musicians).
• aim (something) in a particular direction or at a particular person
• tell or show (someone) how to get somewhere
• address or give instructions for the delivery of (a letter or parcel)
• address a comment to or aim a criticism at
• target a product or advertisement specifically at (someone)
• guide or advise in a course or decision
• give (someone) an official order or authoritative instruction
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.
• 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.
• To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.
• command with authority
• intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
• guide the actors in (plays and films)
• be in charge of
• take somebody somewhere
• cause to go somewhere
• point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
• lead, as in the performance of a composition
• give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction
• specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public
• direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
• put an address on (an envelope)
• plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
• lead and organize
• focus (one's thoughts) on or address (one's efforts) towards something.
NOUN:
• 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.
ADVERB:
• with no one or nothing in between
• by a straight route or without breaking a journey
• in a direct manner
ADJECTIVE:
• straightforward
• extending or moving from one place to another without changing direction or stopping
• (of apparent planetary motion) proceeding from west to east in accord with actual motion.
• without intervening factors or intermediaries
• (of light or heat) proceeding from a source without being reflected or blocked
• (of genealogy) proceeding in continuous succession from parent to child
• (of taxation) levied on income or profits rather than on goods or services.
• complete (used for emphasis)
• (of a person or their behaviour) going straight to the point; frank
• (of evidence or proof) bearing immediately and unambiguously upon the facts at issue
• perpendicular to a surface; not oblique
• (of a route) shortest, straight
• Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
• Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.
• Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
• In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.
• 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 in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short
• having no intervening persons, agents, conditions
• straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action
• in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child
• moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth
• similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity
• (of a current) flowing in one direction only
• being an immediate result or consequence
• in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker
• lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact
• (of a quotation) taken from someone's words without being changed.

Words related to DIRECT

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Words that contain DIRECT

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How to use DIRECT in a sentence

• Animal parasites the direct cause of many diseases.
• If it were taken away, the direct result would be an accession of poverty and misery.
• If you argue that the ears are intended to catch sounds and direct them down to the hearing instrument, then explain their absurd shape.
• Yet to do this, and not give the Sultan a direct military authority in the province, would have been, in our opinion, a grievous error.
• The drag would help to stop the sledge, and if she could put an extra pressure on one side, to some extent direct it.
• The eldest pupil, Massieu, himself deaf and dumb, is an extraordinary genius and he may be said in some measure to direct all the others.
• He told it me with such a direct simplicity of conviction that I could not do otherwise than believe in him.
• Few of this audience will probably deny the truth of a direct Scriptural declaration.
• Manure should never be placed in direct contact with the roots or stem of the tree.
• However, there does not seem to be any direct proof of this as yet.
• The suffrage was equal, direct, universal, and secret.
• It is in vain to send forth armies if these do not inspire and direct them.
• So he contented himself with a brief and direct report of what had happened, explaining why Boris was not himself present to make this report.
• I have seen many strange things in my life, but never a cat that could fight fair, nor a woman that could answer a direct question.
• Host toward host with full collected force 600 They moved direct.
• Surely, she was a direct descendant from the Spartan mothers.
• The latter is a large copper vessel heated by direct fire or steam.
• This had to be captured before any direct attack on the town could be made.
• That also was arrested by a direct appeal to Grant.
• Some of its effects, both direct and indirect, I shall describe later, but before doing so it may be well to trace its genesis and development.
• The direct manner of the girl was largely the result of her new responsibilities.
• To form the mouth and throat by direct effort and expect a good tone to result thereby, is an action not only certain of failure but exceedingly stupid.
• There will be few direct illustrations of the subject matter of the text.
• The direct way from Ballinasloe was close by the castle, but there was another way about, on the south-east side of the hill.
• After making a half circle, we heard them coming direct for the herd.
• With regard to others, they have differed, through every shade or degree, from slight diversity to direct opposition.
• Let us see, now, from which observations the preceding thoughts are the direct result.
• The next morning, having learned that the Federal troops still occupied Martinsburg, General Jackson took the direct road to Williamsport.
• Its source is not inference at all but direct emotion and the pathetic fallacy.
• This whole terrific struggle ending at the cross was a direct spirit-battle with that great spirit prince.

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