direct

1. 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. Source: opted

2. a. Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken. Source: opted

3. a. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous. Source: opted

4. a. In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line. Source: opted

5. 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. Source: opted

6. 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. Source: opted

7. 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. Source: opted

8. 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. Source: opted

9. v. t. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go. Source: opted

10. 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. Source: opted

11. v. i. To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide. Source: opted

12. 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. Source: opted

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