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DIRECT, a. L., to make straight. See Right.

1. Straight right as, to pass in a direct line from one body or place to another. It is opposed to crooked, winding, oblique. It is also opposed to refracted as a direct ray of light.

2. In astronomy, appearing to move forward in the zodiac, in the direction of the sign opposed to retrograde as, the motion of a planet is direct.

3. In the line of father and sons opposed to collateral as a descendant in the direct line.

4. Leading or tending to an end, as by a straight line or course not circuitous. Thus we speak of direct means to effect an object a direct course a direct way.

5. Open not ambiguous or doubtful.

6. Plain express not ambiguous as, he said this in direct words he made a direct acknowledgment.

7. In music, a direct interval is that which forms any kind of harmony on the fundamental sound which produces it as the fifth, major third and octave.

Direct tax, is a tax assess on real estate, as houses and lands.

DIRECT, L.

1. To point or aim in a straight line, towards a place or object as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance to direct the eye to direct a course or flight.

2. To point to show the right road or course as, he directed me to the left hand road.

3. To regulate to guide or lead to govern to cause to proceed in a particular manner as, to direct the affairs of a nation.

Wisdom is profitable to direct. Ecclesiastes 10 .

4. To prescribe a course to mark out a way. Job 37 .

5. To order to instruct to point out a course of proceeding, with authority to command. But direct is a softer term than command.

DIRECT, n. In music, a character placed at the end of a stave to direct the performer to the first note of the next stave.