All 5 Uses of
direct
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Directly I could just barely hear a "me-yow! me-yow!" down there.
Chpt 1directly = in a short time
- Directly it begun to rain, and it rained like all fury, too, and I never see the wind blow so.
Chpt 9
- But she watched for a chance, and directly banged away at a rat; but she missed him wide, and said "Ouch!" it hurt her arm so.
Chpt 11
- Well, I fought along, and directly I hears the whoop BEHIND me.
Chpt 15 *
- Next, for about a half an hour, I whoops now and then; at last I hears the answer a long ways off, and tries to follow it, but I couldn't do it, and directly I judged I'd got into a nest of towheads, for I had little dim glimpses of them on both sides of me—sometimes just a narrow channel between, and some that I couldn't see I knowed was there because I'd hear the wash of the current against the old dead brush and trash that hung over the banks.
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(direct as in: depart directly) without delay, or in the quickest manner, or without going somewhere else firsteditor's notes: You may see the term direct flight used in a technical manner that is not as quick as a non-stop flight. In technical usage, a direct flight from Los Angeles to New York could stop at a city on the way, but you would not get off the plane during the stop.