(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.
