Basic and Direct

noun

• A popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use.
• Usually plural. ( a necessary commodity for which demand is constant)
  • synonyms: staple

adjective

• Pertaining to or constituting a base or basis.
  • usage: "a basic fact"; "the basic ingredients"; "basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities"
• Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality.
  • usage: "a basic story line"; "a canonical syllable pattern"
  • synonyms: canonic, canonical
• Serving as a base or starting point.
  • usage: "a basic course in Russian"; "basic training for raw recruits"; "a set of basic tools"; "an introductory art course"
  • synonyms: introductory
• Of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base. .

• (a.) Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
• (a.) Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.
• (a.) Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.
• (a.) Having the base in excess or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the acid or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt.

• Name Meaning: Diminutive of Basil: Royal. Kingly. St Basil the Great was Bishop of Caesarea in the latter half of the 4th century. This name was introduced into Western Europe by the Crusaders. Derived from the same Greek word as the plant name basil
• Name Origin: Greek

verb

• Command with authority.
  • usage: "He directed the children to do their homework"
• Intend (something) to move towards a certain goal.
  • usage: "He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face"; "criticism directed at her superior"; "direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself"
  • synonyms: target, aim, place, point
• Guide the actors in (plays and films. )
• Be in charge of.
• Take somebody somewhere.
  • usage: "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance"; "He conducted us to the palace"
  • synonyms: lead, take, conduct, guide
• Cause to go somewhere.
  • usage: "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation"
  • synonyms: send
• Point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards.
  • usage: "Please don't aim at your little brother"; "He trained his gun on the burglar"; "Don't train your camera on the women"; "Take a swipe at one's opponent"
  • synonyms: aim, take, train, take aim
• Lead, as in the performance of a composition.
  • usage: "conduct an orchestra; Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years"
  • synonyms: conduct, lead
• Give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction.
  • usage: "I directed them towards the town hall"
• Specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public.
  • synonyms: calculate, aim
• Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling.
  • synonyms: steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, head, guide, channelize, channelise
• Put an address on (an envelope.
  • synonyms: address
• Plan and direct (a complex undertaking. )
  • usage: "he masterminded the robbery"
  • synonyms: mastermind, engineer, organize, organise, orchestrate

adjective

• Direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short.
  • usage: "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit"
• Having no intervening persons, agents, conditions.
  • usage: "in direct sunlight"; "in direct contact with the voters"; "direct exposure to the disease"; "a direct link"; "the direct cause of the accident"; "direct vote"
  • synonyms: unmediated
• Straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action.
  • usage: "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach"
• In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.
  • usage: "lineal ancestors"; "lineal heirs"; "a direct descendant of the king"; "direct heredity"
  • synonyms: lineal
• Moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or-for planets-around the sun in the same direction as the Earth.
• Similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity)
  • usage: "a term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases. "
• Of a current. ( flowing in one direction only)
  • usage: "direct current"
• Being an immediate result or consequence.
  • usage: "a direct result of the accident"
• In precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker.
  • usage: "a direct quotation"; "repeated their dialog verbatim"
  • synonyms: verbatim
• Lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact.
  • usage: "the direct opposite"

adverb

• Without deviation.
  • usage: "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office"
  • synonyms: directly, straight

• (v.t.) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to superscribe; as, to direct a letter.
• (a.) Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
• (v.t.) To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.
• (n.) A character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation.
• (v.t.) To determine the direction or course of; to cause to go on in a particular manner; to order in the way to a certain end; to regulate; to govern; as, to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army.
• (a.) Straightforward; not of crooked ways or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.
• (a.) Straight; not crooked, oblique or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
• (a.) In the direction of the general planetary motion or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body.
• (v.t.) To point out or show to (any one), as the direct or right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; as, he directed me to the left-hand road.
• (v.i.) To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.
• (v.t.) To arrange in a direct or straight line, as against a mark or towards a goal; to point; to aim; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance.
• (a.) In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.
• (a.) Pertaining to or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates; as, direct nomination, direct legislation.