Nearest vs Direct - What's the difference?

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Nearest is a related term of direct.

As adjectives the difference between nearest and direct

is that nearest is closest to, (near) while direct is straight, constant, without interruption.

As a preposition nearest

is closest to.

As an adverb direct is

directly.

As a verb direct is

to manage, control, steer.

nearest

English

Adjective

(head)

Closest to, (near).

* 1843 , (Edgar Allan Poe), :

Fastening one end of this at that point of the trunk of the tree which was nearest the peg, he unrolled it till it reached the peg and thence further unrolled it, in the direction already established by the two points of the tree and the peg, for the distance of fifty feet

Preposition

(English prepositions)

closest to

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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

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