DIRECT MEANING IN SPANISH

Definition & Synonyms

• Direct

1. (v. t.) 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.
2. (a.) Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
3. (v. t.) To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.
4. (n.) 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.
5. (v. t.) 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.
6. (a.) Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.
7. (a.) Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
8. (a.) 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.
9. (v. t.) 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.
10. (v. i.) To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.
11. (v. t.) 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.
12. (a.) In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.
13. (a.) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates; as, direct nomination, direct legislation.

Synonyms:
Address, Aim, Calculate, Conduct, Directly, Engineer, Guide, Head, Lead, Lineal, Maneuver, Manoeuvre, Organize, Place, Point, Send, Steer, Straight, Take, Target, Train, Verbatim,

• Direct action

1. () See Syndicalism, below.

• Direct current

1. () A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the inducing current, produced by stopping or removing the latter; also, a similar current produced by removal of a magnet.
2. () 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.

• Direct nomination

1. () The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates without any nominating convention, and, loosely, to the nomination effected, as in the case of candidates for president or senator of the United States, by the election of nominating representatives pledged or instructed to vote for certain candidates dssignated by popular vote.

• Direct primary

1. () A primary by which direct nominations of candidates for office are made.