DICTOMETER

DIRECT

(direct, directo, dirigir, guiar, indicarle el camino a, mandar, direkte, rettlede, styre)

1. Synonyms:
   • Direct
   Definitions:
   • command with authority
   Examples:
   • He directed the children to do their homework
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Target
   • Aim
   • Place
   • Direct
   • Point
   Definitions:
   • intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
   Examples:
   • He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face
   • Criticism directed at her superior
   • Direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Direct
   Definitions:
   • guide the actors in (plays and films)
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Direct
   Definitions:
   • be in charge of
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Lead
   • Take
   • Direct
   • Conduct
   • Guide
   Definitions:
   • take somebody somewhere
   Examples:
   • We lead him to our chief
   • Can you take me to the main entrance?
   • He conducted us to the palace
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Send
   • Direct
   Definitions:
   • cause to go somewhere
   Examples:
   • The explosion sent the car flying in the air
   • She sent her children to camp
   • He directed all his energies into his dissertation
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Aim
   • Take
   • Train
   • Take aim
   • Direct
   Definitions:
   • point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
   Examples:
   • 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
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Conduct
   • Lead
   • Direct
   Definitions:
   • lead, as in the performance of a composition
   Examples:
   • Conduct an orchestra
   • Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Direct
   Definitions:
   • give directions to
   • point somebody into a certain direction
   Examples:
   • I directed them towards the town hall
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Calculate
    • Aim
    • Direct
    Definitions:
    • specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public
    
    
11. Synonyms:
    • Steer
    • Maneuver
    • Manoeuver
    • Manoeuvre
    • Direct
    • Point
    • Head
    • Guide
    • Channelize
    • Channelise
    Definitions:
    • direct the course
    • determine the direction of travelling
    
    
12. Synonyms:
    • Address
    • Direct
    Definitions:
    • put an address on (an envelope)
    
    
13. Synonyms:
    • Mastermind
    • Engineer
    • Direct
    • Organize
    • Organise
    • Orchestrate
    Definitions:
    • plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
    Examples:
    • He masterminded the robbery
    
    

1. Synonyms:
   • Direct
   Definitions:
   • direct in spatial dimensions
   • proceeding without deviation or interruption
   • straight and short
   Examples:
   • A direct route
   • A direct flight
   • A direct hit
   Antonyms:
   • INDIRECT
   • askance, askant, asquint, squint, squint-eyed, squinty, sidelong
   • devious, circuitous, roundabout
   • diversionary
   • meandering(prenominal), rambling, wandering(prenominal), winding
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Direct
   • Unmediated
   Definitions:
   • having no intervening persons, agents, conditions
   Examples:
   • 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
   Antonyms:
   • Mediate
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Direct
   Definitions:
   • straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action
   Examples:
   • A direct question
   • A direct response
   • A direct approach
   Antonyms:
   • INDIRECT
   • allusive
   • backhanded
   • circuitous, roundabout
   • circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious
   • devious, oblique
   • digressive, discursive, excursive, rambling
   • hearsay
   • mealymouthed, mealy-mouthed
   • tortuous
   
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Lineal
   • Direct
   Definitions:
   • in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child
   Examples:
   • Lineal ancestors
   • Lineal heirs
   • A direct descendant of the king
   • Direct heredity
   Antonyms:
   • EAL
   
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Direct
   Definitions:
   • moving from west to east on the celestial sphere
   • or
   Antonyms:
   • RETROGRADE
   
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Direct
   Definitions:
   • similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity
   Examples:
   • A term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases)
   Antonyms:
   • INVERSE
   • reciprocal
   
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Direct
   Definitions:
   • (of a current) flowing in one direction only
   Examples:
   • Direct current
   Antonyms:
   • ALTERNATING
   
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Direct
   Definitions:
   • being an immediate result or consequence
   Examples:
   • A direct result of the accident
   Antonyms:
   • Secondary
   
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Direct
   • Verbatim
   Definitions:
   • in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker
   Examples:
   • A direct quotation
   • Repeated their dialog verbatim
   Antonyms:
   • Inexact
   
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Direct
    Definitions:
    • lacking compromising or mitigating elements
    • exact
    Examples:
    • The direct opposite
    Antonyms:
    • Relative
    • Comparative
    
    
    

1. Synonyms:
   • Directly
   • Straight
   • Direct
   Definitions:
   • without deviation
   Examples:
   • The path leads directly to the lake
   • Went direct to the office