Directness

Definition

direct /dǝ'rekt, dÇ-, daÇ-/ adj ၁။ ေျဖာင့္ေသာ။ အနီးဆံုး။ တိုက္႐ိုက္။ တည့္တည့္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ follow a direct course/route ❍ a direct flight (ie without stopping) ❍ There's a direct train from London to Leeds (ie It may stop at other stations but one does not have to change trains). ❍ a direct hit/shot (ie not hitting sth else first) ❍ the direct rays of the sun (ie not reflected from or blocked by sth in between). ၂။ (က) ေျဖာင့္မတ္ေသာ။ ပြင့္လင္း ေသာ။ တဲ့တိုးျဖစ္ေသာ။ a direct person/manner/answer ❍ She has a direct way of speaking. ❍ He is very direct, so you always know what his real views are. (ခ) ျမင္သာ ေသာ။ ရွင္းေသာ။ ထင္ရွားေသာ။ တိုက္႐ိုက္သက္ဆိုင္ေသာ။ direct evidence/proof ❍ This information has a direct bearing on the case. ၃။ (က) တိုက္႐ိုက္။ ၾကားခံ ၾကားလူ မပါေသာ။ a direct result/link/connection ❍ I'm in direct contact with the hijackers. (ခ) တိုက္႐ိုက္ဆင္းသက္လာေသာ။ ေဆြစဥ္မ်ဳိးဆက္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ She is descended in a direct line from the country's first President. ၄။ တိက်ေသာ။ တိတိျဖစ္ေသာ။ ျပည့္စံုေသာ။ လံုးဝ (ျဖစ္ေသာ)။ That's the direct opposite of what you told me yesterday. Compare INDIRECT v ၁။ (က) စီမံသည္။ ၫႊန္ၾကားသည္။ She directed the planning of the festival. ❍ direct a group of workers. (ခ) (esp passive) ႐ုပ္ရွင္၊ ျပဇာတ္ စသည္တြင္ စီစဥ္ၫႊန္ၾကား သည္။ ဒါ႐ိုက္တာလုပ္သည္။ I'd rather act than direct. ❍ The film is directed by Steven Spielberg. ၂။ ~ sth to/toward…; ~ sth at sth ( rather fml ) ဦးတည္သည္။ ေရွး႐ႈသည္။ ၫႊန္ျပသည္။ ခ်ိန္(၍ထိုး)သည္။ The guide directed our attention to another picture. ❍ We directed our steps towards home. ❍ direct a blow at sb's head ❍ Our efforts should be directed towards greater efficiency. ၃။ ~ sb (to…) လမ္းၫႊန္ျပသည္။ လမ္းျပသည္။ Can you direct me (to the station)? ၄။ (က) ~ sth at/to sb ( fml ) ဦးတည္သည္။ ေခါင္းတည္သည္။ ရည္ၫႊန္းသည္။ advertising directed mainly at women ❍ Let me direct these remarks to the younger students. (ခ) ~ sth to… ( fml ) လိပ္မူသည္။ လိပ္တပ္သည္။ Shall I direct the letter to his business address or to his home address? (၅) ( fml ) ၫႊန္ၾကားသည္။ အမိန္႔ေပးသည္။ The officer directed his troops to advance. ❍ The court directed that he should pay a substantial fine. ❍ order v adv ၁။ တိုက္႐ိုက္။ တန္းတန္းမတ္မတ္။ You don't have to change train. The 10.40 goes direct. ၂။ ကိုယ္တိုင္။ I prefer to deal with him direct. directness n [U] ❏ direct access /also daÇ-/ n [U] ( computing ) အခ်က္အလက္မ်ားကို ခ်က္ခ်င္းရျခင္း။ See also RANDOM ACCESS ❏ direct action /also daÇ-/ n [U] ေစ့စပ္ေရးျဖင့္ မဟုတ္ဘဲ သပိတ္ေမွာက္ျခင္း၊ ဆႏၵျပျခင္း စသည္ျဖင့္ အခြင့္အေရး ေတာင္းဆို ျခင္း။ ❏ direct current /also daÇ-/ n [U] ( abbr DC) တစ္ဖက္တည္းသို႔စီးေသာ လွ်ပ္စီးေၾကာင္း။ တိုက္႐ိုက္လွ်ပ္စီး။ Compare ALTERNATING CURRENT ❏ direct debit /also daÇ-/ n [U, C] မိမိေငြစာရင္းမွ တစ္စံုတစ္ဦးအား သတ္မွတ္ရက္မ်ားတြင္ ေငြထုတ္ေပးရန္ ဘဏ္သို႔ လႊဲေသာစာ။ Compare STANDING ORDER ❏ direct object /also daÇ-/ n ( grammar ) ႀကိယာႏွင့္ တိုက္႐ိုက္ သက္ဆိုင္ေသာကံပုဒ္ (နာမ္၊ နာမ္စား၊ နာမ္ပုဒ္စု၊ နာမ္ဝါက်က႑)။ See also OBJECT n ၄ ❏ direct speech /also daÇ-/ n [U] တိုက္႐ိုက္ေျပာစကား။ Compare INDIRECT SPEECH

Examples

1. Direct flights from Scotland to North America
2. There is a more direct route straight up the motorway.
3. The building had taken a direct hit and was completely destroyed.
4. Only a few of us have direct access to the files.
5. Employees have little direct contact with management.
6. Their study found a direct link between poverty and crime.
7. Companies have closed as a direct result of the new law.
8. That’s a direct quote from the man himself.
9. Martin’s brother is his direct opposite in character.
10. The rewards will be in direct proportion to the work you put in.
11. Plant in a shady position away from direct sunlight.
12. I love New Yorkers – they’re sharp
13. funny
14. and direct.
15. She’s refused to answer direct questions about her plans for the company.
16. Steve says he’s a direct descendant of William Shakespeare.