The Meaning of 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.
• (a.) Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.
• (a.) Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
• (a.) In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.
• (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.
• (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.
• (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.
• (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.
• (v. t.) To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.
• (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.
• (v. i.) To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.
• (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.

Homophones

deregt

Rhymes

affect , aftereffect , albrecht , architect , aspect , becht , bedecked , brecht , checked , circumspect , collect , confect , connect , correct , decked , defect , deflect , deject , deregt , detect , dialect , disaffect , disconnect , disinfect , disrespect , dissect , effect , eject , elect , erect , expect , fecht , hecht , henpecked , incorrect , indirect , infect , inject , insect , inspect , intellect , interconnect , interject , intersect , introspect , knecht , misdirect , necked , neglect , nondirect , object , overprotect , pecht , perfect , prefect , project , protect , rechecked , recht , recollect , reconnect , redirect , reflect , reinspect , reject , respect , resurrect , retrospect , schlecht , sect , select , specht , subject , suspect , teleconnect , trekked , unchecked , wecht , whelked , wrecked