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Pinpoint vs Direct - What's the difference?

pinpoint | direct |

As adjectives the difference between pinpoint and direct

is that pinpoint is extremely precise or specific, especially regarding location while direct is straight, constant, without interruption.

As verbs the difference between pinpoint and direct

is that pinpoint is to identify or locate precisely or with great accuracy while direct is to manage, control, steer.

As a noun pinpoint

is the point of a pin.

As an adverb direct is

directly.

pinpoint

English

Alternative forms

* pin-point

Noun

(en noun)
  • The point of a pin.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Extremely precise or specific, especially regarding location.
    • The machine assembles parts at high speed and with pinpoint accuracy.
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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To identify or locate precisely or with great accuracy.
    • They investigators tried to pinpoint the source of the flames.

    Anagrams

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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

    Related terms

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

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