Word Meanings - GUIDEPOST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, to direct travelers.

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• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• DIRECT ACTION
  See BELOW
• DIRECT NOMINATION
  The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates
• DIRECTRIX
  1. A directress. Jer. Taylor. A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating
• DIRECT
  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. Direct action. See Direct-acting. -- Direct discourse , the language of any one quoted
• DIRECTORY
  Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
• DIRECTRESS
  A woman who directs. Bp. Hurd.
• DIRECTORSHIP
  The condition or office of a director; directorate.
• DIRECTORIAL
  1. Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive. 2. Pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the Directory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3. Whoever goes to the directorial presence
• GUIDEBOARD
  A board, as upon a guidepost having upon it directions or information as to the road. Lowell.
• DIRECTOIRE STYLE
  A style of dress prevalent at the time of the French Directory, characterized by great extravagance of design and imitating the Greek and Roman costumes.
• DIRECT PRIMARY
  A primary by which direct nominations of candidates for office are made.
• DIRECTION
  The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object. Wilhelm. Syn. -- Administration; guidance; management; superintendence;
• DIRECT-ACTING
  Acting directly, as one part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts. Direct-acting steam engine, one in which motion is transmitted to the crank without the intervention of a beam or lever; -- also called direct-action steam
• DIRECTORATE
  The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.
• DIRECTLY
  1. In a direct manner; in a straight line or course. "To run directly on." Shak. Indirectly and directly too Thou hast contrived against the very life Of the defendant. Shak. 2. In a straightforward way; without anything intervening;
• DIRECT-COUPLED
  Coupled without intermediate connections, as an engine and a dynamo. Direct-coupled antenna , an antenna connected electrically with one point of a closed oscillation circuit in syntony with it and earthed.
• DIRECTOR
  A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent. In all affairs thou sole director. Swift. 2. One of a body
• DIRECTNESS
  The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.
• GUINEA-PIG DIRECTOR
  A director who serves merely or mainly for the fee paid for attendance.
• UNDIRECTLY
  Indirectly. Strype.
• MISDIRECTION
  An error of a judge in charging the jury on a matter of law. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.
• INDIRECTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness. 2. Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty. W. Montagu.
• INDIRECTION
  Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. "By indirections find directions out." Shak.
• REDIRECT
  Applied to the examination of a witness, by the party calling him, after the cross-examination.
• MISDIRECT
  To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies. Shenstone.