having no intervening medium | direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short |
very close or connected in space or time | (of a current) flowing in one direction only |
performed with little or no delay | straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action |
of the present time and place | similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity |
immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect | 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 |