Vocabulary : Direct action to Direction

Direct action : See Syndicalism, below.
Direct current : A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. ;; A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the inducing current, produced by stopping or removing the latter; also, a similar current produced by removal of a magnet.
Direct nomination : The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates without any nominating convention, and, loosely, to the nomination effected, as in the case of candidates for president or senator of the United States, by the election of nominating representatives pledged or instructed to vote for certain candidates dssignated by popular vote.
Direct primary : A primary by which direct nominations of candidates for office are made.
Direct-acting : Acting directly, as one part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts.

Direct-coupled : Coupled without intermediate connections, as an engine and a dynamo.
Directed : of Direct
Directer : One who directs; a director.
Directing : of Direct
Direction : The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public affairs or of a bank. ;; That which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants. ;; The name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; as, the direction of a letter. ;; The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly direction. ;; The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors. ;; The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object.

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