direct
直接,直接的,直达,直接的说
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Definitions
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- : to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- : to regulate the course of; control: History is directed by a small number of great men and women.
- : to administer; manage; supervise: She directs the affairs of the estate.
- : to give authoritative instructions to; command; order or ordain: I directed him to leave the room.
- : to serve as a director in the production or performance of.
- : to guide, tell, or show the way to a place: I directed him to the post office.
- : to point, aim, or send toward a place or object: to direct radio waves around the globe.
- : to channel or focus toward a given result, object, or end: She directed all her energies toward the accomplishment of the work.
- : to address to a person or persons: The secretary directed his remarks to two of the committee members.
- : to address to an intended recipient.
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- : to act as a guide.
- : to give commands or orders.
- : to serve as the director of a play, film, orchestra, etc.
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- : proceeding in a straight line or by the shortest course; straight; undeviating; not oblique: a direct route.
- : proceeding in an unbroken line of descent; lineal rather than collateral: a direct descendant.
- : Mathematics. containing terms of which an increase in one results in an increase in another: a term is said to be in direct proportion to another term if one increases as the other increases. the function itself, in contrast to its inverse.Compare inverse.
- : without intervening persons, influences, factors, etc.; immediate; personal: direct contact with the voters; direct exposure to a disease.
- : straightforward; frank; candid: the direct remarks of a forthright individual.
- : absolute; total; exact: the direct opposite.
- : consisting exactly of the words originally used; verbatim: direct quotation.
- : Government. of or by action of voters, which takes effect without representatives or another intervening agency, as in direct democracy.
- : inevitable; consequential: War will be a direct result of such political action.
- : allocated for or arising from a particular known agency, process, job, etc.: The new machine was listed by the accountant as a direct cost.
- : Electricity. of or relating to direct current.
- : Astronomy. moving in an orbit in the same direction as the earth in its revolution around the sun.appearing to move on the celestial sphere in the direction of the natural order of the signs of the zodiac, from west to east.Compare retrograde.
- : Surveying. in its normal position; not inverted or transited.
- : working without the use of a mordant; substantive.
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- : in a direct manner; directly; straight: Answer me direct.
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Examples
Players and their direct support teams and essential staff members not able to work from home will be the only players allowed to enter Melbourne Park.
Multiple assistant coaches said they have had to come to terms with the direct impact that the protocols can have on their team’s record, either by cutting down on practice time and in-person meetings or by sidelining players.
In June 2019, Housing Commissioners Stefanie Benvenuto and Ryan Clumpner directed the agency to study the viability of a vacancy fee.
The more common direct-drive motor begins spinning the blades once the machine is turned on, while a clutch-drive motor engages when you move a handle or throw a switch.
Today, Shop Pay’s payment option is used by a number of top direct-to-consumer and newer brands, including Allbirds, Kith, Beyond Yoga, Kylie Cosmetics, Jonathan Adler, Loeffler Randall, Blueland and others.
In 2009, Lee Daniels announced that he would direct Selma and that Liam Neeson would play President Lyndon Johnson.
If someone wants to ensure a direct and secure connection, no entity, whether a hotel or otherwise, should be able to block it.
The twang we hear as emblematic of white country music is actually the direct descendant of black folk music banjo.
Idiocies multiply in direct proportion to the accumulating legal rigidities.
Today they are more direct, especially in many conflict regions of the world.
Each religion claims that its own Bible is the direct revelation of God, and is the only true Bible teaching the only true faith.
The steamboat of 1809 and the steam locomotive of 1830 were the direct result of what had gone before.
It was a direct lie to tell the Austrian commander that an armistice had been arranged and the bridge ceded to the French.
I suppose that to most men such a warning would be a direct incitement to make the attempt.
Even the policeman who is paid to direct you, replies to your inquiry with the shortest and gruffest monosyllable that will do.