Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
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Mastermind
plan and direct (a complex undertaking); "he masterminded the robbery"
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A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Emotion and tone, Economics, Sentence structure, Formality and interpersonal tone, International economics.plan and direct (a complex undertaking); "he masterminded the robbery"
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Emotion and tone, Economics, Sentence structure, Formality and interpersonal tone, International economics.plan and direct (a complex undertaking); "he masterminded the robbery"
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Emotion and tone, Economics, Sentence structure, Formality and interpersonal tone, International economics.To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; org…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Emotion and tone, Economics, Sentence structure, Formality and interpersonal tone, International economics.Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloq…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Emotion and tone, Formality and interpersonal tone.Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing; as, a conversational style.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Emotion and tone, Formality and interpersonal tone.See Methylal.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Emotion and tone, Formality and interpersonal tone.Not in the regular, usual, or established form; not according to official, conventional, prescribed, or customary forms or rules; irre…
Used in the same subject area: Emotion and tone, Economics, Formality and interpersonal tone.Of or pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conv…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Emotion and tone, Formality and interpersonal tone.the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the v…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Sentence structure.a system of recording all of a country's economic transactions with the rest of the world over a period of one year; "a favorable bala…
Used in the same subject area: Economics, International economics.a system of recording all of a country's economic transactions with the rest of the world over a period of one year; "a favorable bala…
Used in the same subject area: Economics, International economics.the comparative form of an adjective or adverb; "‘faster’ is the comparative of the adjective ‘fast’"; "‘less famous’ is the comparati…
Used in the same subject area: Economics, International economics.that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's exports and imports of goods and services and transfer payments
Used in the same subject area: Economics, International economics.the object that receives the direct action of the verb
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Sentence structure.the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management
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To aim; to direct.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plan, direct, complex, undertaking, masterminded.To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plan, direct, complex, undertaking, masterminded.To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plan, direct, complex, undertaking, masterminded.That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plan, direct, complex, undertaking, masterminded.A gift begged; a present.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plan, direct, complex, undertaking, masterminded.Composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plan, direct, complex, undertaking, masterminded.To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plan, direct, complex, undertaking, masterminded.The practice of gang robbery in India; robbery committed by dacoits.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plan, direct, complex, undertaking, masterminded.To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plan, direct, complex, undertaking, masterminded.To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plan, direct, complex, undertaking, masterminded.Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plan, direct, complex, undertaking, masterminded.Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plan, direct, complex, undertaking, masterminded.To look upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy (one) the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plan, direct, complex, undertaking, masterminded.
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