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8 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Direct \Di*rect"\, a. (Political Science) Pertaining to or effected immediately by action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates; as direct nomination, direct legislation. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Demonstration \Dem`on*stra"tion\, n. [L. demonstratio: cf F. d['e]monstration.] 1. The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof; especially, proof beyond the possibility of doubt; indubitable evidence, to the senses or reason. Those intervening ideas which serve to show the agreement of any two others are called ``proofs;'' and where agreement or disagreement is by this means plainly and clearly perceived, it is called demonstration. --Locke. 2. An expression, as of the feelings, by outward signs; a manifestation; a show Did your letters pierce the queen to any demonstration of grief? --Shak. Loyal demonstrations toward the prince. --Prescott. 3. (Anat.) The exhibition and explanation of a dissection or other anatomical preparation. 4. (Mil.) a decisive exhibition of force, or a movement indicating an attack. 5. (Logic) The act of proving by the syllogistic process, or the proof itself 6. (Math.) A course of reasoning showing that a certain result is a necessary consequence of assumed premises; -- these premises being definitions, axioms, and previously established propositions. {Direct}, or {Positive}, {demonstration} (Logic & Math.), one in which the correct conclusion is the immediate sequence of reasoning from axiomatic or established premises; -- opposed to {Indirect}, or {Negative}, {demonstration} (called also {reductio ad absurdum}), in which the correct conclusion is an inference from the demonstration that any other hypothesis must be incorrect. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tax \Tax\, n. [F. taxe, fr taxer to tax, L. taxare to touch, sharply, to feel handle, to censure, value, estimate, fr tangere tactum to touch. See {Tangent}, and cf {Task}, {Taste}.] 1. A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority. Specifically: a A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government. A farmer of taxes is of all creditors, proverbially the most rapacious. --Macaulay. b Especially, the sum laid upon specific things as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like Note: Taxes are {annual} or {perpetual}, {direct} or {indirect}, etc c A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses. 2. A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject. 3. A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as a heavy tax on time or health. 4. Charge; censure. [Obs.] --Clarendon. 5. A lesson to be learned; a task. [Obs.] --Johnson. {Tax cart}, a spring cart subject to a low tax. [Eng.] Syn: Impost; tribute; contribution; duty; toll; rate; assessment; exaction; custom; demand. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Direct \Di*rect"\, a. [L. directus p. p. of dirigere to direct: cf F. direct. See {Dress}, and cf {Dirge}.] 1. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end as a direct line direct means What is direct to what slides by the question. --Locke. 2. Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken. Be even and direct with me --Shak. 3. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous. He nowhere, that I know says it in direct words --Locke. A direct and avowed interference with elections. --Hallam. 4. In the line of descent; not collateral; as a descendant in the direct line 5. (Astron.) 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}. (Mach.) See {Direct-acting}. {Direct discourse} (Gram.), the language of any one quoted without change in its form as he said ``I can not come;'' -- correlative to {indirect discourse}, in which there is change of form as he said that he could not come They are often called respectively by their Latin names {oratio directa}, and {oratio obliqua}. {Direct evidence} (Law), evidence which is positive or not inferential; -- opposed to {circumstantial, or indirect, evidence}. -- This distinction, however, is merely formal, since there is no direct evidence that is not circumstantial, or dependent on circumstances for its credibility. --Wharton. {Direct examination} (Law), the first examination of a witness in the orderly course, upon the merits. --Abbott. {Direct fire} (Mil.), fire, the direction of which is perpendicular to the line of troops or to the parapet aimed at {Direct process} (Metal.), one which yields metal in working condition by a single process from the ore. --Knight. {Direct tax}, a tax assessed directly on lands, etc., and polls, distinguished from taxes on merchandise, or customs, and from excise. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Direct \Di*rect"\, v. i. To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide. Wisdom is profitable to direct. --Eccl. x. 10. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Direct \Di*rect"\, n. (Mus.) 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. --Moore (Encyc. of Music). From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Direct \Di*rect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Directed}; p. pr & vb n. {Directing}.] 1. 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. 2. 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. The Lord direct your into the love of God. --2 Thess. iii. 5. The next points to which I will direct your attention. --Lubbock. 3. 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. I will direct their work in truth. --Is. lxi. 8. 4. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order as he directed them to go I 'll first direct my men what they shall do --Shak. 5. 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. Syn: To guide; lead; conduct; dispose; manage; regulate; order instruct; command. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: direct adj 1: direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short; "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit" [ant: {indirect}] 2: immediate or direct in bearing or force; having nothing intervening; "in direct sunlight"; "in direct contact with the voters"; "direct exposure to the disease"; "a direct link"; "the direct cause of the accident" 3: extended senses direct in means or manner or behavior or language or action "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach" [ant: {indirect}] 4: in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child; "lineal ancestors"; "lineal heirs"; "a direct descendant of the king"; "direct heredity" [syn: {lineal}] [ant: {collateral}] 5: (astronomy) moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth [ant: {retrograde}] 6: (mathematics) varying in the same manner as another quantity; "a term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases)" [ant: {inverse}] 7: (electricity) of a current flowing in one direction only; not alternating; "direct current" [ant: {alternating}] 8: as an immediate result or consequence; "a direct result of the accident" 9: in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker; "a direct quotation"; "repeated their dialog verbatim" [syn: {verbatim}] 10: effected directly by action of the voters rather than through elected representatives; "many people favor direct election of the President rather than election by the Electoral College" 11: exact; "the direct opposite" adv : without deviation; "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office" [syn: {directly}, {straight}] v 1: command with authority; "He directed the children to do their homework" 2: intend something to move towards a certain goal; "He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face"; "criticism directed at her superior"; "direct your anger towards others not towards yourself" [syn: {target}, {aim}, {place}, {point}] 3: guide the actors in (plays and films) 4: be in charge of 5: take somebody somewhere; "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance?"; "He conducted us to the palace" [syn: {lead}, {take}, {conduct}, {guide}] 6: cause to go somewhere; "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation" [syn: {send}] 7: aim or direct at as of blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment; "Please don't aim at your little brother!" "He trained his gun on the burglar"; "Don't train your camera on the women"; "Take a swipe at one's opponent" [syn: {aim}, {take}, {train}, {take aim}] 8: lead; "conduct an orchestra" [syn: {conduct}, {lead}] 9: give directions to point somebody into a certain direction; "I directed them towards the town hall" [syn: {point}] 10: specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public [syn: {calculate}, {aim}] 11: direct the course; determine the direction of travelling [syn: {steer}, {maneuver}, {manouevre}, {point}, {head}, {guide}] 12: put an address on (an envelope, for example) [syn: {address}] 13: plan and direct (a complex undertaking); "he masterminded the robber" [syn: {mastermind}, {engineer}, {organize}, {orchestrate}]
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