DIRECT — ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ
direct
Plan and direct (a complex undertaking).
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- He masterminded the robbery.
Specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public.
Command with authority.
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- He directed the children to do their homework.
Give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction.
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- I directed them towards the town hall.
Put an address on (an envelope, for example).
Intend (something) to move towards a certain goal.
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- He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face.
- Criticism directed at her superior.
- Direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself.
Aim or direct at; as of blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment.
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- 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.
Guide the actors in (plays and films).
Lead, as in the performance of a composition.
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- Conduct an orchestra; Bairenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years.
Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling.
Cause to go somewhere.
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- The explosion sent the car flying in the air.
- She sent her children to camp.
- He directed all his energies into his dissertation.
Take somebody somewhere.
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- We lead him to our chief.
- Can you take me to the main entrance?
- He conducted us to the palace.
Be in charge of.
Exact.
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- The direct opposite.
Effected directly by action of the voters rather than through elected representatives.
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- Many people favor direct election of the President rather than election by the Electoral College.
Direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short.
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- A direct route.
- A direct flight.
- A direct hit.
Of a current flowing in one direction only; not alternating.
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- Direct current.
Extended senses; direct in means or manner or behavior or language or action.
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- A direct question.
- A direct response.
- A direct approach.
Similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity.
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- A term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases).
Moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth.
Immediate or direct in bearing or force; having nothing intervening.
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- In direct sunlight.
- In direct contact with the voters.
- Direct exposure to the disease.
- A direct link.
- The direct cause of the accident.
In precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker.
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- A direct quotation.
- Repeated their dialog verbatim.
In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.
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- Lineal ancestors.
- Lineal heirs.
- A direct descendant of the king.
- Direct heredity.
As an immediate result or consequence.
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- A direct result of the accident.
Without deviation.
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- The path leads directly to the lake.
- Went direct to the office.
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