Scrabble and Words with Friends

• DIRECT is a valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. Scrabble uses the TWL word list.
  

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• DIRECT is a valid Words with Friends word worth 10 points. Words with Friends uses the ENABLE word list.
  

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• DIRECT is a 6 letter word containing the letters c, d, e, i, r, t.

Definitions

• direct

  verb command with authority
  He directed the children to do their homework

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• direct

  verb intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
  criticism directed at her superior
  direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself

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• direct

  verb guide the actors in (plays and films)

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• direct

  verb be in charge of

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• direct

  verb take somebody somewhere

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• direct

  verb cause to go somewhere
  He directed all his energies into his dissertation

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• direct

  verb point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards

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• direct

  verb lead, as in the performance of a composition

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• direct

  verb give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction
  I directed them towards the town hall

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• direct

  verb specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public

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• direct

  verb direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

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• direct

  verb put an address on (an envelope)

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• direct

  verb plan and direct (a complex undertaking)

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• direct

  adjective direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short
  a direct route
  a direct flight
  a direct hit

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• direct

  adjective straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action
  a direct question
  a direct response
  a direct approach

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• direct

  adjective in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child
  a direct descendant of the king
  direct heredity

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• direct

  adjective moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth

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• direct

  adjective similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity
  a term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases)

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• direct

  adjective (of a current) flowing in one direction only
  direct current

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• direct

  adverb without deviation
  the path leads directly to the lake
  went direct to the office

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• direct

  adjective satellite having no intervening persons, agents, conditions
  in direct sunlight
  in direct contact with the voters
  direct exposure to the disease
  a direct link
  the direct cause of the accident
  direct vote

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• direct

  adjective satellite being an immediate result or consequence
  a direct result of the accident

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• direct

  adjective satellite in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker
  a direct quotation

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• direct

  adjective satellite lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact
  the direct opposite

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• Lookup DIRECT using the Merriam-Webster dictionary

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