Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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direct | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
primary | Yes | Yes | No | No |
direct (noun) | primary (noun) |
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a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen | |
one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing | |
coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit | |
(astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it |
direct (adjective) | primary (adjective) |
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direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short | of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary |
(of a current) flowing in one direction only | of or being the essential or basic part |
straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action | most important element |
similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity | not derived from or reducible to something else; basic |
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) | primary (verb) |
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plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | |
specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | |
command with authority | |
give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction | |
put an address on (an envelope) | |
point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards | |
intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | |
guide the actors in (plays and films) | |
lead, as in the performance of a composition | |
take somebody somewhere | |
cause to go somewhere | |
direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | |
govern or manage |
direct (adverb) | primary (adverb) |
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without deviation |