Usually means: Straightforward, without deviation or interruption.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word direct:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. direct: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. direct: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. direct: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. direct: Collins English Dictionary
  5. direct: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. direct: Wiktionary
  7. direct: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. direct: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. direct: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. direct: Dictionary.com
  11. direct: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. direct: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. DIRECT, Direct (Tower of Power album), Direct (Vangelis album), Direct: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Direct: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. direct: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. direct: Rhymezone
  17. direct, direct, direct(e): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. direct: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. direct: Free Dictionary
  20. direct: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. direct: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. direct: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. Direct, direct: Wordnik
  24. direct: Vocabulary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. direct: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. direct: Legal dictionary
  5. Direct: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. direct: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. direct: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. DIRECT: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. direct: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. direct: Nine Planets Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. direct: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
adjective:  Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
adjective:  Straightforward; sincere.
adjective:  Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
adjective:  In the line of descent; not collateral.
adjective:  (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.
adjective:  (political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates.
adjective:  (aviation, travel) Having a single flight number.
adjective:  (mathematics, logic, of a proof) Not employing the law of the excluded middle or argument by contradiction.
adverb:  Directly.
verb:  To manage, control, steer.
verb:  To aim (something) at (something else).
verb:  To point out to or show (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
verb:  To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
verb:  (dated) To address (a letter) to a particular person or place.

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