Definition of direct

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Direct (v. t.) To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go..

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Demoniac :: Demoniac (n.) A human being possessed by a demon or evil spirit; one whose faculties are directly controlled by a demon.
Verbal :: Verbal (a.) Of or pertaining to a verb; as, a verbal group; derived directly from a verb; as, a verbal noun; used in forming verbs; as, a verbal prefix..
Dispose :: Dispose (v. t.) To give a tendency or inclination to; to adapt; to cause to turn; especially, to incline the mind of; to give a bent or propension to; to incline; to make inclined; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by for before the indirect object..
Siderostat :: Siderostat (n.) An apparatus consisting essentially of a mirror moved by clockwork so as to throw the rays of the sun or a star in a fixed direction; -- a more general term for heliostat.
Right-handed :: Right-handed (a.) Having the same direction or course as the movement of the hands of a watch seen in front; -- said of the motion of a revolving object looked at from a given direction.
Metagenesis :: Metagenesis (n.) The change of form which one animal species undergoes in a series of successively produced individuals, extending from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. Opposed to monogenesis. See Alternate generation, under Generation..
Bear :: Bear (v. t.) To manage, wield, or direct..
Shear :: Shear (v. t.) An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress..
Cross :: Cross (a.) Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other..
Bureau :: Bureau (n.) Hence: A department of public business requiring a force of clerks; the body of officials in a department who labor under the direction of a chief.
Bore :: Bore (v. i.) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
Witness :: Witness (v. t.) To see or know by personal presence; to have direct cognizance of.
Summered :: Summer (n.) The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.
Reentrant :: Reentrant (a.) Reentering; pointing or directed inwardds; as, a re/ntrant angle..
Pointing :: Pointing (n.) The act of designating, as a position or direction, by means of something pointed, as a finger or a rod..
Round :: Round (adv.) By or in a circuit; by a course longer than the direct course; back to the starting point.
Martello Tower :: Martello tower () A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction..
Address :: Address (v.) To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter..
Reichstag :: Reichstag (n.) The Diet, or House of Representatives, of the German empire, which is composed of members elected for a term of three years by the direct vote of the people. See Bundesrath..
Pointed :: Pointed (a.) Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing..
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