direct

direct is a 6-letter English word with 36 senses as adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, verb, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 36 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
2. adjective. Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.
3. adjective. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
4. adjective. In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.
5. adjective. 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.
6. transitive verb. 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.
7. transitive verb. 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.
8. transitive verb. 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.
9. transitive verb. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.
10. transitive verb. 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.
11. intransitive verb. To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.
12. noun. 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.
13. verb. plan and direct (a complex undertaking)

    "he masterminded the robbery"

    Synonyms: engineer, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize

14. verb. specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public

    Synonyms: aim, calculate

15. verb. command with authority

    "He directed the children to do their homework"

16. verb. give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction

    "I directed them towards the town hall"

17. verb. put an address on (an envelope)

    Synonyms: address

18. verb. intend (something) to move towards a certain goal

    "He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face"

    "criticism directed at her superior"

    Synonyms: aim, place, point, target

19. verb. 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"

    Synonyms: aim, take, train

20. verb. guide the actors in (plays and films)
21. verb. lead, as in the performance of a composition

    "conduct an orchestra; Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years"

    Synonyms: conduct, lead

22. verb. direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

    Synonyms: channelise, channelize, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer

23. verb. cause to go somewhere

    "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"

    "She sent her children to camp"

    Synonyms: send

24. verb. take somebody somewhere

    "We lead him to our chief"

    "can you take me to the main entrance?"

    Synonyms: conduct, guide, lead, take

25. verb. be in charge of
26. adjective. lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact

    "the direct opposite"

27. adjective. direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short

    "a direct route"

    "a direct flight"

28. adjective. (of a current) flowing in one direction only

    "direct current"

29. adjective. straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action

    "a direct question"

    "a direct response"

30. adjective. 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)"

31. adjective. moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth
32. adjective. having no intervening persons, agents, conditions

    "in direct sunlight"

    "in direct contact with the voters"

    Synonyms: unmediated

33. adjective. in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker

    "a direct quotation"

    "repeated their dialog verbatim"

    Synonyms: verbatim

34. adjective. in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child

    "lineal ancestors"

    "lineal heirs"

    Synonyms: lineal

35. adjective. being an immediate result or consequence

    "a direct result of the accident"

36. adverb. without deviation

    "the path leads directly to the lake"

    "went direct to the office"

    Synonyms: directly, straight

Synonyms

engineer, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize, aim, calculate, address, place, point, target, take, train, conduct, lead, channelise, channelize, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, steer, send

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in direct:

credit, triced

Common word forms

directs, directed, directer, directly, directest, directing, directable, directness

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