(a.) Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
(a.) Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.
(a.) Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
(a.) In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.
(a.) 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.
(v. t.) To arrange in a direct or straight line, as against a mark, or towards a goal; to point; to aim; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance.
(v. t.) To point out or show to (any one), as the direct or right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; as, he directed me to the left-hand road.
(v. t.) To determine the direction or course of; to cause to go on in a particular manner; to order in the way to a certain end; to regulate; to govern; as, to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army.
(v. t.) To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.
(v. t.) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to superscribe; as, to direct a letter.
(v. i.) To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.
(n.) A character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(2) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(3) However, when first trimester specimens were analyzed, the direct-product measurements were significantly larger than the corresponding 3H2O assay results.
(4) The generally accepted hypothesis is a coronary spasm but a direct cardiotoxicity of 5-FU cannot be.
(5) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(6) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(7) Results indicated a .85 probability that Directive Guidance would be followed by Cooperation; a .67 probability that Permissiveness would lead to Noncooperation; and a .97 likelihood that Coerciveness would lead to either Noncooperation or Resistance.
(8) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(9) In addition to oncogenes, the transferred DNA contains genes that direct the synthesis and exudation of opines, which are used as nutrients by the bacteria.
(10) A total of 104 evaluable patients 20-90 years old treated by direct vision internal urethrotomy a.m. Sachse for urethral strictures reported retrospectively via a questionnaire their sexual potency before and after internal urethrotomy.
(11) However, direct measurements of mediator release should be carried out to reach a firm conclusion.
(12) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(13) These data indicate that RNA faithfully transfers "suppressive" as well as "positive" types of immune responses that have been reported previously for lymphocytes obtained directly from tumour-bearing and tumour-immune animals.
(14) The occupation of the high affinity calcium binding site by Ca(II) and Mn(II) does not influence the Cu(II) binding process, suggesting that there is no direct interaction between this site and the Cu(II) binding sites.
(15) The pancreatic changes are unlikely to be an artefact, but rather a direct toxic effect of the alcohol as confirmed by the biochemical changes.
(16) Errors in the initial direction of response were fewer in binocular viewing in comparison with monocular viewing.
(17) In the second approach, attachment sites of DTPA groups were directed away from the active region of the molecule by having fragment E1,2 bound in complex, with its active sites protected during the derivatization.
(18) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
(19) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
(20) The direct monocyte source is not sufficient to insure the stability of this population.
Insinuate
Definition:
(v. t.) To introduce gently or slowly, as by a winding or narrow passage, or a gentle, persistent movement.
(v. t.) To introduce artfully; to infuse gently; to instill.
(v. t.) To hint; to suggest by remote allusion; -- often used derogatorily; as, did you mean to insinuate anything?
(v. t.) To push or work (one's self), as into favor; to introduce by slow, gentle, or artful means; to ingratiate; -- used reflexively.
(v. i.) To creep, wind, or flow in; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.
(v. i.) To ingratiate one's self; to obtain access or favor by flattery or cunning.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hence the major role of the 14-A arm of carboxybiotin is not to permit a large carboxyl migration but, rather to permit carboxybiotin to traverse the gap which occurs at the interface of three subunits and to insinuate itself between the CoA and keto acid sites.
(2) Dr Abby Innes European Institute, LSE • If David Cameron really wants to clean out the Augean stables of corruption, he should not use international summits to insinuate that corruption is only a foreign problem.
(3) It took aim at the law’s insinuation of a parasitic relationship between media and aggregators: “Google News creates real value for these publications by driving people to their website, which in turn helps generate advertising revenues.” The shutdown affects only Google News in Spain – news stories from Spain can still be accessed through the company’s main search engine.
(4) When state television broadcast the Oscar-winning Polish film Ida , the screening was preceded by a 12-minute warning to viewers of alleged historical inaccuracies “The ‘politics of memory’ policy appears to work largely by insinuation,” said Davies.
(5) Subsequently, small lymphocytes migrated through the basal lamina and insinuated themselves between the differentiated epithelial cells.
(6) Much of the story, however, is doubtful; perhaps now, with Carr's death, it may be possible to disentangle some of the strands of insinuation, legal spin and lies.
(7) The sign, which was hung on an electrical line, revealed the executive’s home address and insinuated that she was a prostitute who gave her services for free to Milan’s top transportation official.
(8) In addition to insinuating that Obama, a Christian, is secretly a Muslim, Trump has also falsely stated the president was born in Kenya when he was, in fact, born in Hawaii.
(9) Here lies our greatest risk, one insufficiently appreciated by those who so blithely accept the tentacles of corporation, press and state insinuating their way into the private sphere.
(10) As scholar Thavolia Glymph writes in Out of the House of Bondage , her study of women and slavery in America, the insinuation has long been that planter women "suffered under the weight of the same patriarchal authority to which slaves were subjected".
(11) March 26, 2016 In August 2015 Trump insinuated that Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly asked him tough questions in the first primary debate because she was menstruating.
(12) It is thus able not only to export more Coca-Cola, it is free to export more of the diseases of western culture, insinuating the brand with youngsters.
(13) Yesterday, former New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller published a column which, while partially praising Manning's leaks, insinuated that the claims Manning made in his in-court statement about his motives and actions may be unreliable because they are not found in the logs of the chats in which he engaged with the government informant.
(14) Typical histologic features included a dense, collagenous stroma; prominent, dilated, thin-walled vessels; muscular hyperplasia of small arteries; keloidal change; myxoid change; and fibrous tissue insinuation into the muscularis propria of the bowel.
(15) The man has a record; my insinuations are hardly far-fetched.
(16) In some of the fiercest exchanges of the 2016 presidential race so far, Clinton accused her challenger of “artfully smearing” her with “innuendo and insinuation” by suggesting payments from Wall Street were a sign of corruption.
(17) TransCanada has also spent enormous amounts of PR money putting ads on Oprah's network and the like, in an attempt to rebrand itself as " ethical oil ", insinuating that the Keystone XL pipeline would ensure America receives its oil from friendly Canada, instead of unstable regions elsewhere in the world.
(18) And, if that happens, many of the controversies which raged in 2009 – when her crushing world 800m title triumph was overshadowed by accusations and insinuations about her gender – will again swirl around Rio like a tornado.
(19) Nerves insinuate between the muscle cells and occur all along the internal face of the muscular layer, sometimes in close contact with the syncytium.
(20) At one point in the press conference, Clinton said about half of the 60,000 emails on her server were private, and she insinuated that they had been deleted, saying “I had no reason to save them, but that was my decision, because the federal guidelines are clear and the State Department request was clear.” “I chose not to keep my private personal emails,” she said.