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Direct vs Rivet - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between direct and rivet

is that direct is to manage, control, steer while rivet is to attach or fasten parts by using rivets.

As an adjective direct

is straight, constant, without interruption.

As an adverb direct

is directly.

As a noun rivet is

a cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end.

direct

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Straight, constant, without interruption.
  • Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
    • the most direct route between two buildings
  • Straightforward; sincere.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Be even and direct with me.
  • Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
  • * John Locke
    • He nowhere, that I know, says it in direct words.
  • * Hallam
    • a direct and avowed interference with elections
  • In the line of descent; not collateral.
    • a descendant in the direct line
  • (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.

    • Antonyms

    * indirect

    Derived terms

    * direct action * direct current * direct flight * direct initiative * direct object * direct quote

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Directly.
  • * 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 346:
    • Presumably Mary is to carry messages that she, Anne, is too delicate to convey direct .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To manage, control, steer.
    • to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army
  • To aim (something) at (something else).
    • They directed their fire towards the men on the wall.
    He directed his question to the room in general.
  • To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
    • He directed me to the left-hand road.
  • * Lubbock
    • the next points to which I will direct your attention
  • To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
    • She directed them to leave immediately.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I'll first direct my men what they shall do.
  • (dated) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent.
    • to direct a letter

    Related terms

    * direction * directly * director * adroit * dirge * dirigible * dress

    Anagrams

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    rivet

    English

    (wikipedia rivet)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end.
  • (figuratively) any fixed point or certain basis
  • (obsolete) a light kind of footman's armour (back-formation from almain-rivet)

    • Derived terms

    * rivet counter * pop rivet

    Verb

  • to attach or fasten parts by using rivets
  • to install rivets
  • to command the attention of.
  • * 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
    • The furnishings and other contents of the room it was which riveted his attention. He examined many things minutely--strange tools and weapons, books, paper, clothing-- what little had withstood the ravages of time in the humid atmosphere of the jungle coast.

    See also

    * riveters * riveting * riveter * rivets * riveted

    Anagrams

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