All 30 Uses of
direct
in
Catch-22
- It was still more frustrating to try to appeal directly to Major Major, the long and bony squadron commander, who looked a little bit like Henry Fonda in distress and went jumping out the window of his office each time Yossarian bullied his way past Sergeant Towser to speak to him about it.
Chpt 3 (definition 1)directly = personally (person-to-person)
- The three enlisted men in each crew were not briefed at all, but were carried directly out on the airfield to the separate planes in which they were scheduled to fly that day, where they waited around with the ground crew until the officers with whom they had been scheduled to fly swung off the rattling tailgates of the trucks delivering them and it was time to climb aboard and start up.
Chpt 5 (definition 2)directly = immediately
- Captain Flume turned to ice, his eyes, flung open wide, staring directly up into Chief White Halfoat's, glinting drunkenly only inches away.
Chpt 6 (definition 1)directly = straight (exactly where stated)
- One evening he felt the need for a live model and directed his wife to march around the room.
Chpt 8 (definition 3)directed = instructed
- 'Add that to the charges against him,' Major Metcalf directed the corporal who could take shorthand.
Chpt 8 (definition 3)
- Then he spied the plane with the burning engine directly above him and screamed to McWatt through the intercom to turn left hard.
Chpt 13 (definition 1)directly = close
- Yossarian continued staring in tormented fascination at Aarfy's spherical countenance beaming at him so serenely and vacantly through the drifting whorls of white paper bits and concluded that he was a raving lunatic just as eight bursts of flak broke open successively at eye level off to the right, then eight more, and then eight more, the last group pulled over toward the left so that they were almost directly in front.
Chpt 15 (definition 1)directly = exactly
- The leader of this team of doctors was a dignified, solicitous gentleman who held one finger up directly in front of Yossarian and demanded, 'How many fingers do you see?'
Chpt 18 (definition 1)directly = close (without anything in between)
- 'Take a look, Chaplain,' Colonel Cathcart directed, screwing a cigarette into his holder and seating himself affluently in the swivel chair behind his desk.
Chpt 19 (definition 3)directed = instructed
- A jeep started up with a backfire directly outside and roared away.
Chpt 20 (definition 1)directly = close
- For one thing, there was ex-P. F.C. Wintergreen, who also wanted to be a general and who always distorted, destroyed, rejected or misdirected any correspondence by, for or about Colonel Cathcart that might do him credit.†
Chpt 21 (definition 3)
- 'A man was killed in his plane over Avignon last week and bled all over him,' Colonel Korn reported directly to General Dreedle.
Chpt 21 (definition 1)directly = personally (person-to-person)
- A number of men who were not moaning were now giggling openly, and there was no telling how far the unorganized insurrection of moaning might have gone if General Dreedle himself had not come forward to quell it, stepping out determinedly in the center of the platform directly in front of Major Danby, who, with his earnest, persevering head down, was still concentrating on his wrist watch and saying, '…twenty-five seconds… twenty… fifteen…'
Chpt 21 (definition 1)directly = close (without anything in between)
- Why don't you sell the eggs directly to you and eliminate the people you buy them from?'
Chpt 22 (definition 1)directly = straight (without anyone in between)
- Why don't they bypass you and buy the eggs directly from you in Malta at four and a quarter cents apiece?
Chpt 22 (definition 1)directly = straight (without anything in between)
- Milo cursed himself hourly for his monumental greed and stupidity in purchasing the entire Egyptian cotton crop, but a contract was a contract and had to be honored, and one night, after a sumptuous evening meal, all Milo's fighters and bombers took off, joined in formation directly overhead and began dropping bombs on the group.
Chpt 24 (definition 1)directly = straight (in a straight line)
- He sat nude on the lowest limb of the tree and balanced himself with both hands grasping the bough directly above.
Chpt 24 (definition 1)directly = close
- He did not pause, but strode directly across the clearing into the orderly room, where he was welcomed by a gaunt, stoop-shouldered staff sergeant with prominent cheekbones and long, very light blond hair, who informed him graciously that he could go right in, since Major Major was out.
Chpt 25 (definition 1)directly = straight (exactly where stated; used for emphasis)
- Aarfy shook his head regretfully again and lowered his obscene, lactescent ear almost directly into Yossarian's face.
Chpt 26 (definition 1)directly = straight (without anything in between)
- Nurse Cramer was still standing directly in front of him so that he could not pass.
Chpt 26 (definition 1)directly = exactly where stated (used for emphasis)
- 'Get up off the floor and into your bed,' he directed Dunbar through thin lips.
Chpt 27 (definition 3)directed = instructed
- 'Be quiet, damn you!' directed Yossarian.
Chpt 27 (definition 3) *directed = commanded
- McWatt set course directly back toward the field.
Chpt 30 (definition 2) *directly = immediately
- A second parachute popped open a few minutes later and coasted down, like the first, directly in toward the clearing of the landing strip.
Chpt 30 (definition 1)directly = straight (exactly where stated; used for emphasis)
- Yossarian was stunned by their overbearing vigor and zeal, by their practical, direct efficiency.
Chpt 32 (definition 4) *direct = straightforward (uncomplicated)
- You may be a wizard at directing a pincer movement in good weather on level terrain against an enemy that has already committed his reserves, but you don't always think so clearly anywhere else.
Chpt 33 (definition 5)directing = supervising
- I didn't think I should, since I was in Orvieto at the time directing the antiaircraft fire.
Chpt 35 (definition 5) *
- The long vessel was halfway across the harbor when they flew in from the west, and broke it apart with direct hits from every flight that filled them all with waves of enormously satisfying group pride until they found themselves engulfed in great barrages of flak that rose from guns in every bend of the huge horseshoe of mountainous land below.
Chpt 35 (definition 1)direct = exact
- He heard sobbing directly overhead.
Chpt 38 (definition 1) *directly = straight (in a straight line)
- Snowden rolled his head to the other side of his neck in order to stare at Yossarian more directly.
Chpt 41 (definition 1)directly = in a straight line
Definitions:
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(1) (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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(2) (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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(3) (direct as in: directed the jury to...) give instructions or commands
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(4) (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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(5) (direct as in: directed the movie) supervise, control, or to be in charge of