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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. ²
a. - Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken. ²
a. - Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous. ²
a. - In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line. ²
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. ²
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. ²
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. ²
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. ²
v. t. - To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go. ²
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
v. i. - To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide. ²
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. ²
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. ²

The word "direct" uses 6 letters: C D E I R T.

Direct anagrams of direct:
  credit   triced

Words formed by adding one letter before or after direct (in bold), or to cdeirt in any order:
e -   recited   tierced   h -   ditcher   i -   dictier   k -   tricked   o -   cordite   p -   predict   s -   credits   directs   v -   verdict  

Shorter words found within direct:
cedi   cider   cire   cite   cited   citer   cried   de   dice   dicer   die   diet   dire   dirt   dit   dite   ed   edict   edit   er   et   etic   ice   iced   id   ire   ired   it   re   rec   recti   red   rei   ret   rice   riced   rid   ride   rite   ted   ti   tic   tide   tie   tied   tier   tire   tired   trice   tried  

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