All 50 Uses of
direct
in
Arrowsmith
- Clif was occasionally irritating; he hated open windows; he talked of dirty socks; he sang "Some die of Diabetes" when Martin was studying; and he was altogether unable to say anything directly.†
Chpt 5
- —a very dangerous microbe, and if you will kindly direct me—†
Chpt 6 *
- He found in her a casualness, a lack of prejudice, a directness, surprising in the daughter of Andrew Jackson Tozer.†
Chpt 6 (definition 1) *
- I've been talking to the technical director and salesmanager and we feel it's the time to strike.†
Chpt 13 (definition 2)
- Then the card of Dr. A. DeWitt Tubbs, Director of the McGurk Institute of Biology, of New York, was brought to him.†
Chpt 13 (definition 2)
- He was mildly pleased that its director should have called on him.
Chpt 13 (definition 2) *director = supervisor (person in charge)standard suffix: The suffix "-or" often converts a verb to a noun that means "a person who." This is the pattern you see in words like actor, editor, and visitor.
- He bought a small Roentgen ray outfit; and he was made a director of the Tozer bank.†
Chpt 16 (definition 2)
- Two days later he wrote that Dr. Almus Pickerbaugh Director of Public Health in the city of Nautilus, Iowa, was looking for a second-in—command, and would probably be willing to send particulars.†
Chpt 18 (definition 2)
- The well-known Dr. Tom Bissex is football coach, health director, and professor of hygiene, chemistry, physics, French, and German.†
Chpt 19 (definition 2)
- Martin left Leora at the Sims House, the old-fashioned, second-best hotel in Nautilus, to report to Dr. Pickerbaugh, Director of the Department of Public Health.†
Chpt 19 (definition 2)
- He received Martin with four "Well's," which he gave after the manner of a college cheer; he showed him through the Department, led him into the Director's private office, gave him a cigar, and burst the dam of manly silence: "Doctor, I'm delighted to have a man with your scientific inclinations.†
Chpt 19 (definition 2)
- Then this—well, it hasn't anything to do with health, directly, but it'll just indicate the opportunity you'll have here to get in touch with all the movements for civic weal.†
Chpt 19
- …who was not a Working Girl but a Nice Girl Who Was Working; to give publicity to the newspapers; to buy paper-clips and floor-wax and report-blanks at the lowest prices; to assist, in need, the two part-time physicians in the city clinic; to direct the nurses and the two sanitary inspectors; to scold the Garbage Removal Company; to arrest—or at least to jaw at—all public spitters; to leap into a Ford and rush out to tack placards on houses in which were infectious diseases; to keep a…†
Chpt 19
- But I mean: you look so athletic and everything, and the other assistant director—don't tell Daddy I said so, but he was an old crank!†
Chpt 19 (definition 2)
- When Pickerbaugh predicted for Nautilus, in fifteen years, a health department thrice as large, with many full-time clinic and school physicians and possibly Martin as director (Pickerbaugh himself having gone off to mysterious and interesting activities in a Larger Field), Martin merely croaked, "Yes, that'd be—be fine," while to himself he was explaining, "Damn that girl, I wish she wouldn't shake herself at me."†
Chpt 19 (definition 2)
- Martin, very busy, restrained his desire to observe, "You win— g' by!" and he buzzed, with the cordiality suitable to a new Assistant Director: "No, I'm afraid I can't."†
Chpt 20 (definition 2)
- He dared to look away from the path of faces directly in front of him.
Chpt 20 (definition 3) *directly = close
- Leora was confessing to the friendly Mrs. Tredgold how cautiously the wife of an assistant director has to economize and with that caressing voice of hers Mrs. Tredgold comforted, "I know.†
Chpt 22 (definition 2)
- V. Martin realized that he was likely to be the next Director of the Department.†
Chpt 22 (definition 2)
- "Gosh, I may be up against it when I become Director," he fretted.†
Chpt 22 (definition 2)
- At eleven the victory was certain, and Martin, his bowels weak with unconfidence, realized that he was now Director of Public Health, with responsibility for seventy thousand lives.†
Chpt 23 (definition 2)
- As he walked home he thought less of being Director than of Orchid's eyes.†
Chpt 23 (definition 2)
- Next day Martin was appointed, but only as Acting Director, with a salary of thirty-five hundred instead of four thousand.†
Chpt 23 (definition 2)
- When the office staff arrived in the morning they found something that had but rarely occurred during the regime of Almus Pickerbaugh: the Director of the Department was transplanting cultures, and on a long table was his wife, asleep.†
Chpt 24 (definition 2)
- He wanted to destroy them, but the police power of the Director of Public Health was vague.†
Chpt 24 (definition 2)
- They bullied their congregations; each of them asserted, "People come sneaking around with criticisms of our new Director of Health.†
Chpt 24 (definition 2)
- When Mayor Pugh returned he did not discharge Martin, but he appointed over him, as full director, Pickerbaugh's friend, Dr. Bissex, the football coach and health director of Mugford College.†
Chpt 24 (definition 2)
- When Mayor Pugh returned he did not discharge Martin, but he appointed over him, as full director, Pickerbaugh's friend, Dr. Bissex, the football coach and health director of Mugford College.†
Chpt 24 (definition 2)
- The city regulations don't fix the salary of anybody except the Director and the inspectors.†
Chpt 24 (definition 2)
- You go into private practice here— I'll finance your getting an office and so on—and when the time comes, maybe in five or ten years from now, we'll all get together again and have you put in as full Director.†
Chpt 24 (definition 2)
- I do not care what you do—if you just do not steal my staph cultures out of the ice-box, and if you will look mysterious all the time, so Dr. Tubbs, our Director, will t'ink you are up to something big.
Chpt 26 (definition 2)director = supervisor (person in charge)standard suffix: The suffix "-or" often converts a verb to a noun that means "a person who." This is the pattern you see in words like actor, editor, and visitor.
- There was a department of publications, whence were issued the Institute reports, and the American Journal of Geographic Pathology, edited by the Director, Dr. Tubbs; there was a room for photography, a glorious library, an aquarium for the Department of Marine Biology, and (Dr.†
Chpt 26 (definition 2)
- Clinging to the soaring wall, above the dais on which lunched the Director and the seven heads of departments, was a carved musicians'-gallery.†
Chpt 26 (definition 2)
- Now let's go call on the Director.†
Chpt 26 (definition 2)
- He had graduated from Harvard, studied on the Continent, been professor of pathology in the University of Minnesota, president of Hartford University, minister to Venezuela, editor of the Weekly Statesman and president of the Sanity League, finally Director of McGurk.†
Chpt 26 (definition 2)
- But the Director was as cordial to the insignificant Martin Arrowsmith as though Martin were a visiting senator.†
Chpt 26 (definition 2)
- And now, Doctor, I want you to meet the real Director of the Institute—my secretary, Miss Pearl Robbins.†
Chpt 26 (definition 2)
- It was murmured that Holabird hoped some day to be made Assistant Director, an office which was to be created for him.†
Chpt 27 (definition 2)
- He became completely bogged in Newton's "Fluxions"; he spoke of Newton to Tubbs and found that the illustrious Director knew nothing about him.†
Chpt 27 (definition 2)
- Under the martinet eye of Col. Director Dr. A. DeWitt Tubbs he had to wear his uniform, at least recognizable portions of it, at the Institute, but by evening he slipped into the habit of sneaking into citizen clothes, and when he went with Leora to the movies he had an agreeable feeling of being Absent Without Leave, of risking at every street corner arrest by the Military Police and execution at dawn.†
Chpt 27 (definition 2)
- He found chocolate belonging to an innocent technician; he even invaded the office of the Director and in the desk of the Diana-like Pearl Robbins unearthed tea and a kettle (as well as a lip-stick, and a love-letter beginning "My Little Ickles").†
Chpt 28 (definition 2)
- Now do not let the Director know about this and get enthusiastic too soon.†
Chpt 28 (definition 2)
- How the Director first heard that Martin was finding gold is not known.†
Chpt 29 (definition 2)
- I must know about it, not only because I take a very friendly interest in your work but because I am, after all, your Director!
Chpt 29 (definition 2)director = supervisor (person in charge)standard suffix: The suffix "-or" often converts a verb to a noun that means "a person who." This is the pattern you see in words like actor, editor, and visitor.
- D.—and more room and technicians, and you will report to me directly, talk things over with me daily, instead of with Gottlieb.†
Chpt 29 *
- Then Rippleton Holabird burst in on him: "Martin, my dear boy, the Director has just been telling me about your discovery and his splendid plans for you.†
Chpt 29 (definition 2)
- Wasn't it simply too decent of the Director to be so eager to recognize and help you in every way!†
Chpt 29 (definition 2)
- "I have let you alone, Dr. Gottlieb," said Tubbs, "but, hang it, I am the Director!†
Chpt 29 (definition 2)
- Max, I love you like a brother, but Tubbs is the Director, and if he feels he needs this Arrowsmith (Is he the thin young fellow I see around your lab?†
Chpt 29 (definition 2)
- He was going to standardize and co-ordinate all mental activities in America, by the creation of a bureau which should direct and pat and gently rebuke and generally encourage chemistry and batikmaking, poetry and Arctic exploration, animal husbandry and Bible study, Negro spirituals and business-letter writing.†
Chpt 30
Definitions:
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(1) (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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(2) (direct as in: directed the movie) supervise, control, or to be in charge of
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(3) (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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(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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(direct as in: directed the jury to...) give instructions or commands