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(1) - Direct (n.) 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. (2) - Direct (v. i.) To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide. (3) - Direct (v. t.) 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. (4) - Direct (v. t.) To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go. (5) - Direct (v. t.) 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. (6) - Direct (v. t.) 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. (7) - Direct (v. t.) 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. (8) - Direct (a.) 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. (9) - Direct (a.) In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line. (10) - Direct (a.) Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous. (11) - Direct (a.) Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken. (12) - Direct (a.) Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means. |