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Direct vs Unambiguous - What's the difference?

direct | unambiguous |

As adjectives the difference between direct and unambiguous

is that direct is straight, constant, without interruption while unambiguous is clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity.

As an adverb direct

is directly.

As a verb direct

is to manage, control, steer.

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

    * * ----

    unambiguous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
  • * {{quote-journal
    • , year = 1965 , month = July , first = Donald , last = Knuth , coauthors = , title = On the Translation of Languages from Left to Right , journal = Information and Control , volume = 8 , issue = , url = http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~mckeeman/cs48/mxcom/doc/knuth65.pdf , pages = 707–639 , passage = }}
    An LR(k'') grammar is clearly unambiguous''', since the definition
    implies every derivation tree must have the same handle, and by induc-
    tion there is only one possible tree. It is interesting to point out further-
    more that nearly every grammar which is known to be '''unambiguous     is
    either an LR(''k'') grammar, or (dually) is a right-to-left translatable
    grammar, or is some grammar which is translated using "both ends to-
    ward the middle." Thus, the LR(''k     ) condition may be regarded as the most
    powerful general test for nonambiguity that is now available.

    Antonyms

    * ambiguous

    Related terms

    * unambiguity