Direct-acting: alternatives and connections

A part performed by instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying…

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; a…

A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.

Manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of acting; conduct; carriage; especially, manner of acting with respect to the cou…

Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a double-acting engine or pump.

acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another

A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minorit…

Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent.

The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the c…

One who, or that which, greases; specifically, a person employed to lubricate the working parts of machinery, engines, carriages, etc.

Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager.

A part (usually separate from the bed or frame) for supporting some of the principal working parts of a machine

Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the intervention of another object as a cause, means, or agency; acting, perceiv…

In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immedia…

Situated upon, attached to, or growing out of, some part; -- said especially of the parts of the flower; as, the calyx, corolla, and s…

The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition.

A box for working implements; hence, a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like.

The proper relative position or adjustment of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working; as, the eng…