DPage 278
- English Word Direct Definition To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.
- English Word Direct Definition 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.
- English Word Direct Definition To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.
- English Word Direct Definition 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.
- English Word Direct-acting Definition Acting directly, as one part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts.
- English Word Directed Definition of Direct
- English Word Directer Definition One who directs; a director.
- English Word Directing Definition of Direct
- English Word Direction Definition The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public affairs or of a bank.
- English Word Direction Definition That which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants.
- English Word Direction Definition The name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; as, the direction of a letter.
- English Word Direction Definition The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly direction.
- English Word Direction Definition The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors.
- English Word Direction Definition The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object.
- English Word Directive Definition Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way.
- English Word Directive Definition Able to be directed; manageable.
- English Word Directly Definition In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.
- English Word Directly Definition In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct, means.
- English Word Directly Definition Without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.
- English Word Directly Definition Exactly; just.