Definition of direct

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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..

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Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert.
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.
Trophic :: Trophic (a.) Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition..
Dispense :: Dispense (v. t.) To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct..
Heliostat :: Heliostat (n.) An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period; also, a geodetic heliotrope..
Prescribe :: Prescribe (v. t.) To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine..
Mobile :: Mobile (a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle..
Find :: Find (v. t.) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance..
Check :: Check (n.) A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below..
Longitudinally :: Longitudinally (adv.) In the direction of length.
Apagoge :: Apagoge (n.) An indirect argument which proves a thing by showing the impossibility or absurdity of the contrary.
Curve :: Curve (v. i.) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right..
Orthogamy :: Orthogamy (n.) Direct fertilization in plants, as when the pollen fertilizing the ovules comes from the stamens of the same blossom; -- opposed to heterogamy..
Bent :: Bent (v.) Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
Obrogate :: Obrogate (v. t.) To annul indirectly by enacting a new and contrary law, instead of by expressly abrogating or repealing the old one..
Leading :: Leading (n.) The act of guiding, directing, governing, or enticing; guidance..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches..
Lineal :: Lineal (a.) Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant..
Put :: Put (v. i.) To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
Al Segno :: Al segno () A direction for the performer to return and recommence from the sign /.
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