All 50 Uses of
direct
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Scarcely was the captain's breath out of his body when he assumed the command without consulting any one, and he caused us to lose a day and a half at the Island of Elba, instead of making for Marseilles direct.
Chpt 1-2 (definition 1)direct = immediately
- "I will go directly," was Edmond's reply; and, embracing his father, and nodding to Caderousse, he left the apartment.
Chpt 1-2 (definition 1)
- "—to be sure!" cried Dantes, eagerly quitting the table; "let us go directly!"
Chpt 5-6 (definition 1)
- Your son has probably neglected some prescribed form or attention in registering his cargo, and it is more than probable he will be set at liberty directly he has given the information required, whether touching the health of his crew, or the value of his freight.
Chpt 5-6 (definition 1)directly = as soon as
- I will let you know that directly I have seen M. de Villefort, whom I shall endeavor to interest in Edmond's favor.
Chpt 5-6 (definition 1)directly = recently
- Well, then, see, here is a gentleman who had none of these resources at his disposal—a gentleman, only a simple magistrate, who learned more than you with all your police, and who would have saved my crown, if, like you, he had the power of directing a telegraph.
Chpt 11-12 (definition 2)directing = controlling
- "On the contrary, sir,--on the contrary," said Louis XVIII, "this affair seems to me to have a decided connection with that which occupies our attention, and the death of General Quesnel will, perhaps, put us on the direct track of a great internal conspiracy."
Chpt 11-12 (definition 3)direct = clear
- "Oh, then let it be directly!" exclaimed the young man.
Chpt 15-16 (definition 1)directly = immediately
- …and this, while it spared him interpreters, persons always troublesome and frequently indiscreet, gave him great facilities of communication, either with the vessels he met at sea, with the small boats sailing along the coast, or with the people without name, country, or occupation, who are always seen on the quays of seaports, and who live by hidden and mysterious means which we must suppose to be a direct gift of providence, as they have no visible means of support.
Chpt 22-23 (definition 4)direct = straight (without anything in between)
- Two of the men from Jacopo's boat came on board the yacht to assist in navigating it, and he gave orders that she should be steered direct to Marseilles.
Chpt 25-26 (definition 4)direct = straight (without going anywhere else first)
- The sharp gaze of Caderousse was instantly directed towards the priest's garments, as though hoping to discover the location of the treasure.
Chpt 25-26 (definition 5)directed = focused
- Instead of going direct to his study, M. Morrel had returned to his bed-chamber, which he was only this moment quitting.
Chpt 29-30 (definition 4)direct = straight (without going anywhere else first)
- Although of a paleness that was almost livid, this man had a remarkably handsome face; his eyes were penetrating and sparkling; his nose, quite straight, and projecting direct from the brow, was of the pure Greek type, while his teeth, as white as pearls, were set off to admiration by the black mustache that encircled them.
Chpt 31-32 (definition 4)direct = straight (without anything in between)
- Franz adjusted his telescope, and directed it towards the yacht.
Chpt 31-32 (definition 5) *directed = pointed
- It is much more convenient at Paris,—when anything cannot be done, you pay double, and it is done directly.
Chpt 33-34 (definition 1)directly = immediately
- …weapon; he purchased powder and ball, and everything served him for a mark—the trunk of some old and moss-grown olive-tree, that grew on the Sabine mountains; the fox, as he quitted his earth on some marauding excursion; the eagle that soared above their heads: and thus he soon became so expert, that Teresa overcame the terror she at first felt at the report, and amused herself by watching him direct the ball wherever he pleased, with as much accuracy as if he placed it by hand.
Chpt 33-34 (definition 5)direct = aim
- The young man looked, bowed in obedience, and then went to Teresa, and invited her to dance in a quadrille directed by the count's daughter.
Chpt 33-34 (definition 2)directed = conducted (the actions of the person in charge of the performance)
- The traveller, who was going from Palestrina to Tivoli, had mistaken his way; the young man directed him; but as at a distance of a quarter of a mile the road again divided into three ways, and on reaching these the traveller might again stray from his route, he begged Luigi to be his guide.
Chpt 33-34 (definition 6)directed = gave directions to
- From that time he had watched them, and profiting by the moment when her lover had left her alone, had carried her off, and believed he at length had her in his power, when the ball, directed by the unerring skill of the young herdsman, had pierced his heart.
Chpt 33-34 (definition 5)directed = aimed
- The road selected was a continuation of the Via Sistina; then by cutting off the right angle of the street in which stands Santa Maria Maggiore and proceeding by the Via Urbana and San Pietro in Vincoli, the travellers would find themselves directly opposite the Colosseum.
Chpt 33-34 (definition 4)directly = where stated (used for emphasis)
- The usual guide from the hotel having followed them, they had paid two conductors, nor is it possible, at Rome, to avoid this abundant supply of guides; besides the ordinary cicerone, who seizes upon you directly you set foot in your hotel, and never quits you while you remain in the city, there is also a special cicerone belonging to each monument—nay, almost to each part of a monument.
Chpt 33-34 (definition 1)directly = as soon as
- "Your excellency is perfectly right in so thinking," said the man; "I came here direct from the Castle of St. Angelo, and I had an immense deal of trouble before I could get a chance to speak to Beppo."
Chpt 33-34 (definition 4)direct = straight (without going anywhere else first)
- To surround the scaffold with twenty of my best men, who, at a signal from me, will rush forward directly Peppino is brought for execution, and, by the assistance of their stilettos, drive back the guard, and carry off the prisoner.
Chpt 33-34 (definition 1)directly = as soon as
- And whom will you employ to carry the reprieve to the officer directing the execution?
Chpt 33-34 (definition 2) *directing = supervising
- Certainly, directly the curtain falls on the stage.
Chpt 33-34 (definition 1)directly = as soon as
- "All I can say is," continued the countess, taking up the lorgnette, and directing it toward the box in question, "that the gentleman, whose history I am unable to furnish, seems to me as though he had just been dug up; he looks more like a corpse permitted by some friendly grave-digger to quit his tomb for a while, and revisit this earth of ours, than anything human."
Chpt 33-34 (definition 5)directing = pointing
- "Well." inquired Franz, after the countess had a second time directed her lorgnette at the box, "what do you think of our opposite neighbor?"
Chpt 33-34 (definition 5)directed = pointed
- Then you really consider we shall not be intruding if we pay our respects to him directly?
Chpt 33-34 (definition 1)directly = immediately
- He resolved, therefore, to let things take their course without making any direct overture to the count. ... However, he resolved to lead the conversation to a subject which might possibly clear up his doubts.
Chpt 35-36 (definition 3) *direct = clear
- I will be with you directly.
Chpt 35-36 (definition 1)directly = in a short time
- While the three gentlemen walked along the Piazza de Spagni and the Via Frattina, which led directly between the Fiano and Rospoli palaces, Franz's attention was directed towards the windows of that last palace, for he had not forgotten the signal agreed upon between the man in the mantle and the Transtevere peasant.
Chpt 35-36 (definition 4)directly = in a straight line
- While the three gentlemen walked along the Piazza de Spagni and the Via Frattina, which led directly between the Fiano and Rospoli palaces, Franz's attention was directed towards the windows of that last palace, for he had not forgotten the signal agreed upon between the man in the mantle and the Transtevere peasant.
Chpt 35-36 (definition 5)directed = focused
- Peppino is a lad of sense, who, unlike most men, who are happy in proportion as they are noticed, was delighted to see that the general attention was directed towards his companion.
Chpt 35-36 (definition 5)
- Her opera-glass was so fixedly directed towards them, that Franz saw it would be cruel not to satisfy her curiosity; and, availing himself of one of the privileges of the spectators of the Italian theatres, who use their boxes to hold receptions, the two friends went to pay their respects to the countess.
Chpt 35-36 (definition 5)directed = pointed
- He went away directly he saw me enter the ball-room to find you.
Chpt 37-38 (definition 1)directly = as soon as
- Albert de Morcerf inhabited a pavilion situated at the corner of a large court, and directly opposite another building, in which were the servants' apartments.
Chpt 39-40 (definition 4)directly = where stated (used for emphasis)
- Address yourself to M. Humann, section of the indirect contributions, corridor A., No. 26.
Chpt 39-40 (definition 4)indirect = with the involvement of other peoplestandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indirect means not and reverses the meaning of direct. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- What? private secretary to a minister, plunged at once into European cabals and Parisian intrigues; having kings, and, better still, queens, to protect, parties to unite, elections to direct; making more use of your cabinet with your pen and your telegraph than Napoleon did of his battle-fields with his sword and his victories; possessing five and twenty thousand francs a year, besides your place; a horse, for which Chateau-Renaud offered you four hundred louis, and which you would not…
Chpt 39-40 (definition 2)direct = supervise (be in charge of)
- Directly I have given my card to the count, who has promised to pay us a visit at Rue Meslay, No. 14.
Chpt 39-40 (definition 4)directly = recently
- "You are right," said the countess, "and my fears are weakness, especially when directed against a man who has saved your life."
Chpt 41-42 (definition 5)directed = aimed
- 'Well, well,' said the jeweller, 'you seem, my good friends, to have had some fears respecting the accuracy of your money, by counting it over so carefully directly I was gone.'
Chpt 45-46 (definition 1)directly = as soon as
- All these circumstances did not strike me as painfully at the time as they have since done; in fact, all that had happened (with the exception of the story of the diamond, which certainly did wear an air of improbability), appeared natural enough, and called for neither apprehension nor mistrust; but, worn out as I was with fatigue, and fully purposing to proceed onwards directly the tempest abated, I determined to obtain a few hours' sleep.
Chpt 45-46 (definition 1)
- One of the officers went to the place I directed.
Chpt 45-46 (definition 6) *directed = instructed
- My first duty, directly I had succeeded in recalling the babe to life, was to restore it to its mother; but, in order to do so, I must have made close and careful inquiry, which would, in all probability, have led to my own apprehension; and I clung to life, partly on my sister's account, and partly from that feeling of pride inborn in our hearts of desiring to come off untouched and victorious in the execution of our vengeance.
Chpt 45-46 (definition 1)directly = as soon as
- …a person, in a word, who, although evidently past fifty, desired to be taken for not more than forty, bent forwards from the carriage door, on the panels of which were emblazoned the armorial bearings of a baron, and directed his groom to inquire at the porter's lodge whether the Count of Monte Cristo resided there, and if he were within.
Chpt 45-46 (definition 6)directed = instructed
- As soon as that important business is concluded, I will have a pair of my own horses harnessed to convey it direct to Madame Danglars.
Chpt 47-48 (definition 4)direct = straight (without going anywhere else first)
- Haidee's only reply was to direct her servant by a sign to withdraw the tapestried curtain that hung before the door of her boudoir, the framework of the opening thus made serving as a sort of border to the graceful tableau presented by the young girl's picturesque attitude and appearance.
Chpt 49-50 (definition 6)direct = instruct
- Well, would you believe it? directly my father caught the sound of your name he turned round quite hastily, and, like a poor silly thing, I was so persuaded that every one must be as much affected as myself by the utterance of your name, that I was not surprised to see my father start, and almost tremble; but I even thought (though that surely must have been a mistake) that M. Danglars trembled too.
Chpt 51-52 (definition 1)directly = as soon as
- "I will come directly," cried Valentine aloud.
Chpt 51-52 (definition 1)directly = immediately
- Madame de Villefort stretched out her hand to ring, intending to direct her waiting-maid to the spot where she would find Valentine, when the young lady herself entered the apartment.
Chpt 51-52 (definition 6)direct = instruct
Definitions:
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(1) (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.
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(2) (direct as in: directed the movie) supervise, control, or to be in charge of
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(3) (direct as in: was direct in my instructions) straightforward (uncomplicated or simple -- perhaps also indicating openness and honesty, or little concern for others' feelings)
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(4) (direct as in: directly above; or buy direct from) straight (exactly where stated); or without involvement of anything in betweenThe exact meaning of this sense of direct is subject to its context. For example:
- "The road runs directly to Las Vegas." -- straight (without varying from a straight line)
- "It was a direct hit." -- exact
- "The plant is in direct sunlight." -- unobstructed (without anything in between)
- "She wants a direct meeting with him." -- personal (without other people in between)
- "She paid direct attention to what he was reading." -- close
- "a direct gaze" -- straight, steady, or focused--not a brief glance taken while generally looking at other things; not a sideways look
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(5) (direct as in: directed her question to) to indicate direction; or to cause movement or focus in a direction or towards an objectThe exact meaning of this sense of direct is subject to its context. For example:
- "intentionally directed fire at unarmed civilians" -- aimed a gun
- "directed the question to her" -- aimed a question
- "directed her north" -- pointed in a particular direction
- "directed attention to the 3rd paragraph" -- focused attention on a particular object
- "The sound of her voice directed him to the kitchen." -- guided or gave directions to someone to help them move to a particular place
- "She directed him to the airport." -- gave directions to send someone to a particular place
- "She directed the boat north." -- steered it
- "directed the letter to" -- send a letter to a particular person by putting a name and address on it
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(6) (direct as in: directed the jury to...) give instructions or commands