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      "phonetic": [
        "daɪˈrɛkt",
        "dərˈɛkt",
        "dɪˈrɛkt"
      ],
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      "etymologies": [
        "Borrowed from Latin dīrectus, perfect passive participle of dīrigō (“straighten, direct”), from dis- (“asunder, in pieces, apart, in two”) + regō (“make straight, rule”). Compare dress.  Doublet of derecho."
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      "typelist": [
        {
          "name": "Adjective",
          "meanlist": [
            {
              "mean": "Proceeding without deviation or interruption."
            },
            {
              "mean": "Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.\nthe most direct route between two buildings"
            },
            {
              "mean": "Straightforward; sincere.\nc. 1599–1602 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Be even and direct with me."
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            {
              "mean": "Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.\n1689 December (indicated as 1690)​,  ,  chapter 1, in  Two Treatises of Government: , London:    Awnsham Churchill, , →OCLC:\nHe nowhere, that I know, says it in direct words.\n1827,  Henry Hallam,  “On the English Constitution from Henry VII. to Mary”, in  The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George II. , volume I, London: John Murray, , →OCLC, page 48:Nor did the government scruple a direct and avowed interference with elections."
            },
            {
              "mean": "In the line of descent; not collateral.\na descendant in the direct line"
            },
            {
              "mean": "(astronomy) 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."
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            {
              "mean": "(political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates.\ndirect nomination; direct legislation"
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            {
              "mean": "(aviation, travel) having a single flight number."
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          "name": "Adverb",
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            {
              "mean": "Directly.\n1912,  Central Provinces (India),  Central Provinces District Gazetteers, page 96:The walls, which are fixed direct into the ground without a plinth, are made of wattle and plastered with a thin lair of mud or cowdung.\n2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 346:\nPresumably Mary is to carry messages that she, Anne, is too delicate to convey direct."
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        },
        {
          "name": "Verb",
          "meanlist": [
            {
              "mean": "To manage, control, steer.\nto direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army"
            },
            {
              "mean": "To aim (something) at (something else).\nThey directed their fire towards the men on the wall.\nHe directed his question to the room in general."
            },
            {
              "mean": "To point out to or show (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.\nHe directed me to the left-hand road.\n1882, John Lubbock, Flowers, Fruits and Leaves\nthe next points to which I will direct your attention"
            },
            {
              "mean": "To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.\nShe directed them to leave immediately.\nc. 1597 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :I'll first direct my men what they shall do."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(dated) To address (a letter) to a particular person or place.\n1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview 2001, p. 310:\ns I do not know where I shall be, and shall have my letters sent after me as soon as I do know, continue to direct hither."
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