direct
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
direct /dɪˈrɛkt, dʌɪ-/
▶adjective
- 1 going from one place to another without changing direction or stopping.
■ Astronomy & Astrology (of apparent planetary motion) proceeding from west to east in accord with actual motion.
- 2 straightforward; frank.
■ (of proof) clear; unambiguous.
- 3 without intervening factors or intermediaries: the complications are a direct result of bacteria spreading.
■ (of light or heat) proceeding from a source without being reflected or blocked.
■ (of descent) proceeding in continuous succession from parent to child.
- 4 perpendicular to a surface.
- 1 control the operations of.
■ supervise and control (a film, play, or other production).
- 2 aim in a particular direction or at a particular person.
■ tell or show (someone) the way.
- 3 give an order to.
– derivatives
directness noun.
directness noun.
– origin ME: from L. directus, past part. of dirigere, from di- ‘distinctly’ or de- ‘down’ + regere ‘put straight’.
'direct' also found in these Oxford entries:
absorption costing
- AC/DC
- acetate
- active
- active service
- address
- administer
- aim
- alternating current
- angle
- Antipodes
- antithesis
- armchair
- aspire
- attachment
- automatic
- backshift
- bake
- baton
- bend
- bluff
- bombard
- bridge
- broil
- cast
- categorical
- channel
- chess
- circuitous
- clinician
- commutate
- commutator
- con
- conduct
- contagious
- contemplation
- control
- corollary
- cottier tenure
- coup
- credit transfer
- cross-country
- DBS
- DC
- degree
- determinative
- devious
- DI
- direct action
