Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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direct | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
hit | Yes | No | Yes | No |
direct (noun) | hit (noun) |
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the act of contacting one thing with another | |
a conspicuous success | |
(baseball) when a batter strikes a picthed ball into fair territory and arrives safely on base (without an error or a fielder's choice being made by the defense) | |
a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate | |
a connection made via the internet to another website | |
a dose of a narcotic drug | |
(physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together |
direct (adjective) | hit (adjective) |
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direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short | |
(of a current) flowing in one direction only | |
straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action | |
similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity | |
in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child | |
moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth | |
lacking compromising or mitigating elements | |
in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker | |
having no intervening persons, agents, conditions | |
being an immediate result or consequence |
direct (verb) | hit (verb) |
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plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to |
specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target |
command with authority | hit with a missile from a weapon |
give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction | hit the intended target or goal |
put an address on (an envelope) | deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument |
point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards | hit against; come into sudden contact with |
intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments |
guide the actors in (plays and films) | cause to move by striking |
lead, as in the performance of a composition | affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely |
take somebody somewhere | reach a destination, either real or abstract |
cause to go somewhere | drive something violently into a location |
direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | reach a point in time, or a certain state or level |
govern or manage | cause to experience suddenly |
encounter by chance | |
kill intentionally and with premeditation |
direct (adverb) | hit (adverb) |
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without deviation |