Found 4 items, similar to direct.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: direct mengarahkan
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: direct langsung, mengarah, mengarahkan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: direct direct adj 1: direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short; “a direct route”; “a direct flight”; “a direct hit” [ant: indirect] 2: immediate or direct in bearing or force; having nothing intervening; “in direct sunlight”; “in direct contact with the voters”; “direct exposure to the disease”; “a direct link”; “the direct cause of the accident” 3: extended senses; direct in means or manner or behavior or language or action; “a direct question”; “a direct response”; “a direct approach” [ant: indirect] 4: in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child; “lineal ancestors”; “lineal heirs”; “a direct descendant of the king”; “direct heredity” [syn: lineal] [ant: collateral] 5: moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth [ant: retrograde] 6: similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity; “a term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases)” [ant: inverse] 7: of a current flowing in one direction only; not alternating; “direct current” [ant: alternating] 8: as an immediate result or consequence; “a direct result of the accident” 9: in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker; “a direct quotation”; “repeated their dialog verbatim” [syn: verbatim] 10: effected directly by action of the voters rather than through elected representatives; “many people favor direct election of the President rather than election by the Electoral College” 11: exact; “the direct opposite” direct v 1: command with authority; “He directed the children to do their homework” 2: intend (something) to move towards a certain goal; “He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face”; “criticism directed at her superior”; “direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself” [syn: target, aim, place, point] 3: guide the actors in (plays and films) 4: be in charge of 5: take somebody somewhere; “We lead him to our chief”; “can you take me to the main entrance?”; “He conducted us to the palace” [syn: lead, take, conduct, guide] 6: cause to go somewhere; “The explosion sent the car flying in the air”; “She sent her children to camp”; “He directed all his energies into his dissertation” [syn: send] 7: aim or direct at; as of blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment; “Please don't aim at your little brother!”; “He trained his gun on the burglar”; “Don't train your camera on the women”; “Take a swipe at one's opponent” [syn: aim, take, train, take aim] 8: lead, as in the performance of a composition; “conduct an orchestra; Bairenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years” [syn: conduct, lead] 9: give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction; “I directed them towards the town hall” 10: specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public [syn: calculate, aim] 11: direct the course; determine the direction of travelling [syn: steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, head, guide, channelize, channelise] 12: put an address on (an envelope, for example) [syn: address] 13: plan and direct (a complex undertaking); “he masterminded the robbery” [syn: mastermind, engineer, organize, organise, orchestrate] direct adv : without deviation; “the path leads directly to the lake”; “went direct to the office” [syn: directly, straight]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Direct Direct \Di*rect"\, v. i. To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide. [1913 Webster] Wisdom is profitable to direct. --Eccl. x. 10. [1913 Webster] Direct \Di*rect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Directed; p. pr. & vb. n. Directing.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. [1913 Webster] The Lord direct your into the love of God. --2 Thess. iii. 5. [1913 Webster] The next points to which I will direct your attention. --Lubbock. [1913 Webster] 3. 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. [1913 Webster] I will direct their work in truth. --Is. lxi. 8. [1913 Webster] 4. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go. [1913 Webster] I 'll first direct my men what they shall do. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. 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. Syn: To guide; lead; conduct; dispose; manage; regulate; order; instruct; command. [1913 Webster] Direct \Di*rect"\, n. (Mus.) 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. --Moore (Encyc. of Music). [1913 Webster] Direct \Di*rect"\, a. [L. directus, p. p. of dirigere to direct: cf. F. direct. See Dress, and cf. Dirge.] 1. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means. [1913 Webster] What is direct to, what slides by, the question. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 2. Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken. [1913 Webster] Be even and direct with me. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous. [1913 Webster] He nowhere, that I know, says it in direct words. --Locke. [1913 Webster] A direct and avowed interference with elections. --Hallam. [1913 Webster] 4. In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line. [1913 Webster] 5. (Astron.) 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. [1913 Webster] 6. (Political Science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates; as, direct nomination, direct legislation. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Direct action. (a) (Mach.) See Direct-acting. (b) (Trade unions) See Syndicalism, below. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Direct discourse (Gram.), the language of any one quoted without change in its form; as, he said “I can not come;” -- correlative to indirect discourse, in which there is change of form; as, he said that he could not come. They are often called respectively by their Latin names, oratio directa, and oratio obliqua. Direct evidence (Law), evidence which is positive or not inferential; -- opposed to circumstantial evidence, or indirect evidence. -- This distinction, however, is merely formal, since there is no direct evidence that is not circumstantial, or dependent on circumstances for its credibility. --Wharton. Direct examination (Law), the first examination of a witness in the orderly course, upon the merits. --Abbott. Direct fire (Mil.), fire, the direction of which is perpendicular to the line of troops or to the parapet aimed at. Direct process (Metal.), one which yields metal in working condition by a single process from the ore. --Knight. Direct tax, a tax assessed directly on lands, etc., and polls, distinguished from taxes on merchandise, or customs, and from excise. [1913 Webster]