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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Artful :: Artful (a.) Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty; as, an artful boy. [The usual sense.].
Lead :: Lead (v. t.) To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, esp. by going with or going in advance of. Hence, figuratively: To direct; to counsel; to instruct; as, to lead a traveler; to lead a pupil..
Ovaliform :: Ovaliform (a.) Having the form of an egg; having a figure such that any section in the direction of the shorter diameter will be circular, and any in the direction of the longer diameter will be oval..
Spiralozooid :: Spirally (adv.) In a spiral form, manner, or direction..
Elenctical :: Elenctical (a.) Serving to refute; refutative; -- applied to indirect modes of proof, and opposed to deictic..
Aim :: Aim (v. t.) To direct or point, as a weapon, at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object; as, to aim a musket or an arrow, the fist or a blow (at something); to aim a satire or a reflection (at some person or vice)..
Directory :: Directory (a.) Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
Distract :: Distract (v. t.) To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the eye; to distract the attention..
Polestar :: Polestar (n.) A guide or director.
Regulate :: Regulate (v. t.) To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws..
Director :: Director (n.) One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent..
Latus Rectum :: Latus rectum () The line drawn through a focus of a conic section parallel to the directrix and terminated both ways by the curve. It is the parameter of the principal axis. See Focus, and Parameter..
Fluctuate :: Fluctuate (v. i.) To move now in one direction and now in another; to be wavering or unsteady; to be irresolute or undetermined; to vacillate.
Stock :: Stock (n.) The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family..
Eddy :: Eddy (n.) A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current..
Homotropous :: Homotropous (a.) Turned in the same direction with something else.
Admeasure :: Admeasure (v. t.) Formerly, the adjustment of proportion, or ascertainment of shares, as of dower or pasture held in common. This was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff..
Burke :: Burke (v. t.) To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question..
Remit :: Remit (v. t.) To send off or away; hence: (a) To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen. Sir T. Elyot. (b) To submit, refer, or leave (something) for judgment or decision..
Angle :: Angle (n.) The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle..
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