[
  {
    "word": "direct",
    "phonetic": "/d(a)\u026a\u02c8\u0279\u025bkt/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/d(a)\u026a\u02c8\u0279\u025bkt/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/direct-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1648225",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To manage, control, steer.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army"
          },
          {
            "definition": "To aim (something) at (something else).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "He directed his question to the room in general."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "He directed me to the left-hand road."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "She directed them to leave immediately."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "to direct a letter"
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Proceeding without deviation or interruption.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "the most direct route between two buildings"
          },
          {
            "definition": "Straightforward; sincere.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "In the line of descent; not collateral.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "a descendant in the direct line"
          },
          {
            "definition": "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.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "direct nomination; direct legislation"
          },
          {
            "definition": "(travel) having a single flight number.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "explicit",
          "patent",
          "univocal",
          "immediate"
        ],
        "antonyms": [
          "indirect"
        ]
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "adverb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Directly.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/direct"
    ]
  }
]