Word Meanings - DIRECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Direct action. See Direct-acting. -- Direct discourse , the language of any one quoted

Additional info about word: DIRECT

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. Direct action. See Direct-acting. -- Direct discourse , the language of any one quoted without change in its form; as, he said "I can not come;" -- correlative to indirect discourse, in which there is change of form; as, he said that he could not come. They are often called respectively by their Latin names, oratio directa, and oratio obliqua. -- Direct evidence , evidence which is positive or not inferential; -- opposed to circumstantial, or indirect, evidence. -- This distinction, however, is merely formal, since there is no direct evidence that is not circumstantial, or dependent on circumstances for its credibility. Wharton. -- Direct examination , the first examination of a witness in the orderly course, upon the merits. Abbott. -- Direct fire , fire, the direction of which is perpendicular to the line of troops or to the parapet aimed at. -- Direct process , one which yields metal in working condition by a single process from the ore. Knight. -- Direct tax, a tax assessed directly on lands, etc., and polls, distinguished from taxes on merchandise, or customs, and from excise. (more info) 1. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means. What is direct to, what slides by, the question. Locke. 2. Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken. Be even and direct with me. Shak. 3. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous. He howhere, that I know, says it in direct words. Locke. A direct and avowed interference with elections. Hallam. 4. In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIRECT)

• Apply
• Adduce
• use
• employ
• allot
• dedicate
• devote
• exercise
• apportion
• direct
• engage
• Bend
• Curve
• deviate
• incline
• tend
• swerve
• diverge
• mold
• persuade
• influence
• bias
• dispose
• lower
• subordinate to
• lean
• deflect
• bow
• condescend
• yield
• stoop
• submit
• Bid
• Tell
• request
• instruct
• order
• proffer
• charge
• command
• propose
• offer
• Charge
• Direct
• enjoin
• advise
• admonish
• arraign
• inculpate
• entrust
• commit
• load
• accuse
• impeach
• attack
• assault
• impute
• carry
• Command Order
• bid

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DIRECT)

• Supplicate
• entreat
• persuade
• beg
• petition
• suggest
• represent
• Straighten
• unbend
• rectilineate
• Rest
• ease
• disuse
• respite
• relax
• recreate
• Trend
• diverge
• ascend
• deter
• rise
• indispose
• disincline
• Hoist
• raise
• heighten
• exalt
• increase
• aggrandize
• elevate

Related words: (words related to DIRECT)

• ADMONISHER
  One who admonishes.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• SUPPLICATE
  supplicate; of uncertain origin, cf. supplex, supplicis, humbly begging or entreating; perhaps fr. sub under + a word akin to placare to reconcile, appease , or fr. sub under + plicare to fold, whence the idea of bending the knees . Cf. 1. To
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• OFFER
  ferre to bear, bring. The English word was influenced by F. offrir to 1. To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up. Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• ALLOTTABLE
  Capable of being allotted.
• OFFERER
  One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship. Hooker.
• RELAXANT
  A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• ASSAULTABLE
  Capable of being assaulted.
• PERSUADED
  Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• ALLOTRIOPHAGY
  A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food.
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• INDEVOTE
  Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• MISADVISE
  To give bad counsel to.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.