Recount vs Direct - What's the difference?
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To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of.
To rehearse; to enumerate.
Straight, constant, without interruption.
Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
Straightforward; sincere.
* Shakespeare
Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
* John Locke
* Hallam
In the line of descent; not collateral.
(astronomy) 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.
Directly.
* 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 346:
To manage, control, steer.
To aim (something) at (something else).
To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
* Lubbock
To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
* Shakespeare
(dated) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent.
Recount is a related term of direct.
As verbs the difference between recount and direct
is that recount is to tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of or recount can be to count or reckon again while direct is to manage, control, steer.As a noun recount
is retelling, narration, rendering or recount can be a counting again, as of votes.As an adjective direct is
straight, constant, without interruption.As an adverb direct is
directly.recount
English
Etymology 1
From and (etyl) reconter, variant of (etyl) raconter.Verb
(en verb)- The old man recounted the tale of how he caught the big fish.
- to recount one's blessings
Etymology 2
Anagrams
*direct
English
Adjective
(er)- the most direct route between two buildings
- Be even and direct with me.
- He nowhere, that I know, says it in direct words.
- a direct and avowed interference with elections
- a descendant in the direct line
Antonyms
* indirectDerived terms
* direct action * direct current * direct flight * direct initiative * direct object * direct quoteAdverb
(en adverb)- Presumably Mary is to carry messages that she, Anne, is too delicate to convey direct .
Verb
(en verb)- to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army
- They directed their fire towards the men on the wall.
- He directed his question to the room in general.
- He directed me to the left-hand road.
- the next points to which I will direct your attention
- She directed them to leave immediately.
- I'll first direct my men what they shall do.
- to direct a letter