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English Dictionary: direct	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
direct adv without deviation; "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office" Synonym(s): directly, straight, direct adj direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short; "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit" Antonym(s): indirect having no intervening persons, agents, conditions; "in direct sunlight"; "in direct contact with the voters"; "direct exposure to the disease"; "a direct link"; "the direct cause of the accident"; "direct vote" Synonym(s): direct, unmediated straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action; "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach" Antonym(s): indirect in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child; "lineal ancestors"; "lineal heirs"; "a direct descendant of the king"; "direct heredity" Synonym(s): lineal, direct Antonym(s): collateral, indirect moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth Antonym(s): retrograde 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)" Antonym(s): inverse (of a current) flowing in one direction only; "direct current" Antonym(s): alternating being an immediate result or consequence; "a direct result of the accident" in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker; "a direct quotation"; "repeated their dialog verbatim" Synonym(s): direct, verbatim lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact; "the direct opposite" v command with authority; "He directed the children to do their homework" 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" Synonym(s): target, aim, place, direct, point guide the actors in (plays and films) be in charge of take somebody somewhere; "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance?"; "He conducted us to the palace" Synonym(s): lead, take, direct, conduct, guide 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" Synonym(s): send, direct point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards; "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" Synonym(s): aim, take, train, take aim, direct lead, as in the performance of a composition; "conduct an orchestra; Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years" Synonym(s): conduct, lead, direct give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction; "I directed them towards the town hall" specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public Synonym(s): calculate, aim, direct direct the course; determine the direction of travelling Synonym(s): steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, head, guide, channelize, channelise put an address on (an envelope) Synonym(s): address, direct plan and direct (a complex undertaking); "he masterminded the robbery" Synonym(s): mastermind, engineer, direct, organize, organise, orchestrate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Direct \Direct"\, a. (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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tax \Tax\, n. [F. taxe, fr. taxer to tax, L. taxare to touch, sharply, to feel, handle, to censure, value, estimate, fr. tangere, tactum, to touch. See {Tangent}, and cf. {Task}, {Taste}.] 1. A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority. Specifically: (a) A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government. A farmer of taxes is, of all creditors, proverbially the most rapacious. --Macaulay. (b) Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like. Note: Taxes are {annual} or {perpetual}, {direct} or {indirect}, etc. (c) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses. 2. A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject. 3. A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health. 4. Charge; censure. [Obs.] --Clarendon. 5. A lesson to be learned; a task. [Obs.] --Johnson. {Tax cart}, a spring cart subject to a low tax. [Eng.] Syn: Impost; tribute; contribution; duty; toll; rate; assessment; exaction; custom; demand.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Demonstration \Dem`on*stra"tion\, n. [L. demonstratio: cf. F. d[82]monstration.] 1. The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof; especially, proof beyond the possibility of doubt; indubitable evidence, to the senses or reason. Those intervening ideas which serve to show the agreement of any two others are called [bd]proofs;[b8] and where agreement or disagreement is by this means plainly and clearly perceived, it is called demonstration. --Locke. 2. An expression, as of the feelings, by outward signs; a manifestation; a show. Did your letters pierce the queen to any demonstration of grief? --Shak. Loyal demonstrations toward the prince. --Prescott. 3. (Anat.) The exhibition and explanation of a dissection or other anatomical preparation. 4. (Mil.) a decisive exhibition of force, or a movement indicating an attack. 5. (Logic) The act of proving by the syllogistic process, or the proof itself. 6. (Math.) A course of reasoning showing that a certain result is a necessary consequence of assumed premises; -- these premises being definitions, axioms, and previously established propositions. {Direct}, [or] {Positive}, {demonstration} (Logic & Math.), one in which the correct conclusion is the immediate sequence of reasoning from axiomatic or established premises; -- opposed to {Indirect}, [or] {Negative}, {demonstration} (called also {reductio ad absurdum}), in which the correct conclusion is an inference from the demonstration that any other hypothesis must be incorrect.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Direct \Direct"\, 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. What is direct to, what slides by, the question. --Locke. 2. Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken. Be even and direct with me. --Shak. 3. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous. He nowhere, that I know, says it in direct words. --Locke. A direct and avowed interference with elections. --Hallam. 4. In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line. 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. {Direct action}. (Mach.) See {Direct-acting}. {Direct discourse} (Gram.), the language of any one quoted without change in its form; as, he said [bd]I can not come;[b8] -- 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, [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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Direct \Direct"\, 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. 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. The Lord direct your into the love of God. --2 Thess. iii. 5. The next points to which I will direct your attention. --Lubbock. 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. I will direct their work in truth. --Is. lxi. 8. 4. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go. I 'll first direct my men what they shall do. --Shak. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Direct \Di*rect"\, v. i. To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide. Wisdom is profitable to direct. --Eccl. x. 10.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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).