different between direct vs strike

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin d?rectus, perfect passive participle of d?rig? (“straighten, direct”), from dis- (“asunder, in pieces, apart, in two”) + reg? (“make straight, rule”). Compare dress.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d(a)????kt/, /d????kt/, /da??????kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt
• Hyphenation: di?rect

Adjective

direct (comparative more direct, superlative most direct)

1. Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
2. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.

3. Straightforward; sincere.
4. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.

   • He nowhere, that I know, says it in direct words.

   • 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England

     a direct and avowed interference with elections

5. In the line of descent; not collateral.

6. (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.
7. (political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates.

8. (aviation, travel) having a single flight number.

Synonyms

• (proceeding uninterrupted): immediate
• (express, plain, unambiguous): explicit, patent, univocal; see also Thesaurus:explicit

Antonyms

• indirect

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

direct (comparative more direct, superlative most direct)

1. 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

direct (third-person singular simple present directs, present participle directing, simple past and past participle directed)

1. To manage, control, steer.

   to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army

2. 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.

3. 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.

   • 1882, John Lubbock, Flowers, Fruits and Leaves

     the next points to which I will direct your attention

4. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.

   She directed them to leave immediately.
5. (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

Derived terms

• co-direct, codirect
• misdirect
• redirect

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Credit, credit, triced

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French direct, from Latin d?r?ctus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?r?kt/
• Hyphenation: di?rect
• Rhymes: -?kt

Adjective

direct (comparative directer, superlative directst)

1. direct, immediate
2. direct, blunt, frank

Inflection

Adverb

direct

1. immediately

Synonyms

• onmiddellijk
• meteen
• rechtstreeks

Derived terms

• drek

Descendants

• Afrikaans: direk
• ? Papiamentu: dirèkt

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.??kt/
• Homophones: directe, directes, directs

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin d?rectus. Doublet of droit, which was inherited.

Adjective

direct (feminine singular directe, masculine plural directs, feminine plural directes)

1. direct

Etymology 2

From directement.

Adverb

direct

1. (colloquial) directly

   Si t'as pas envie d'y aller, dis-le direct.

   • 'If you don't want to go, say it straight up.'

Derived terms

Related terms

• diriger
• directeur
• direction

See also

• droit

Anagrams

• crédit
• décrit
• dicter

Further reading

• “direct” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin d?rectus, perfect passive participle of d?rig?, d?rigere (“straighten, direct”). Compare the inherited drait, drouait.

Adjective

direct m

1. (Jersey) direct

Derived terms

• directément (“directly”)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French direct, Latin directus. Compare the inherited doublet drept.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?rekt/

Adjective

direct m or n (feminine singular direct?, masculine plural direc?i, feminine and neuter plural directe)

1. direct
2. head-on

Declension

Adverb

direct

1. directly
2. straight

English

Etymology

From Middle English stryken, from Old English str?can, from Proto-Germanic *str?kan?, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, rub, press”). Cognate with Dutch strijken, German streichen, Danish stryge, Icelandic strýkja, strýkva.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /st?a?k/
• Rhymes: -a?k

Verb

strike (third-person singular simple present strikes, present participle striking, simple past struck, past participle struck or (see usage notes) stricken or (archaic) strucken)

1. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.

2. (physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
   1. (transitive) To hit.
   2. (transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
   3. (intransitive) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
   4. (transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping.
   5. (intransitive, dated) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; to run aground.

   6. (transitive) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.

   7. (intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
   8. (transitive) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
   9. (transitive) To cause to ignite by friction.

3. (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.

4. (personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
   1. (transitive) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
   2. (intransitive) To carry out a violent or illegal action.
   3. (intransitive) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.

   4. (transitive, figuratively) To impinge upon.
   5. (intransitive) To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.

      Synonym: strike work

      • 1889, New York (State). Dept. of Labor. Bureau of Statistics, Annual Report (part 2, page 127)

        Two men were put to work who could not set their looms; a third man was taken on who helped the inefficients to set the looms. The other weavers thought this was a breach of their union rules and 18 of them struck […]

   6. (transitive) To impress, seem or appear (to).
   7. (transitive) To create an impression.
   8. (sports) To score a goal.
   9. To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
   10. To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.

   11. (intransitive, Britain, obsolete, slang) To steal or rob; to take forcibly or fraudulently.
   12. (slang, archaic) To borrow money from; to make a demand upon.
5. To touch; to act by appulse.
6. (transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
   1. (nautical) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
   2. (by extension) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
   3. To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
      • 1979, Texas Monthly (volume 7, number 8, page 109)

        The crew struck the set with a ferocity hitherto unseen, an army more valiant in retreat than advance.

7. (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
8. (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
9. (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.

10. (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
11. To make and ratify.

12. To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
13. (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
14. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.

15. (sugar-making, obsolete) To lade thickened sugar cane juice from a teache into a cooler.
16. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
17. (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
18. To balance (a ledger or account).

Usage notes

• The past participle of strike is usually struck (e.g. He'd struck it rich, or When the clock had struck twelve, etc.); stricken is significantly rarer. However, it is still found in transitive constructions where the subject is the object of an implied action, especially in the phrases "stricken with/by (an affliction)" or "stricken (something) from the record" (e.g. The Court has stricken the statement from the record, or The city was stricken with disease, etc.). Except for in these contexts, stricken is almost never found in informal or colloquial speech.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

strike (plural strikes)

2. (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
   • 1996, Lyle Lovett, "Her First Mistake" on The Road to Ensenada:

     It was then I knew I had made my third mistake. Yes, three strikes right across the plate, and as I hollered "Honey, please wait" she was gone.

3. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
4. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
5. A blow or application of physical force against something.
   • 1996, Annie Proulx, Accordion Crimes

     […] and they could hear the rough sound, could hear too the first strikes of rain as though called down by the music.

   • 2008, Lich King, "Attack of the Wrath of the War of the Death of the Strike of the Sword of the Blood of the Beast", Toxic Zombie Onslaught

6. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
7. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
8. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.

9. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
10. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
11. An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
12. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
13. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
14. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
15. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
16. The discovery of a source of something.
17. The strike plate of a door.
18. (fishing) A nibble on the bait by a fish.
    • 2014, Michael Gorman, Effective Stillwater Fly Fishing (page 87)

      I must admit that my focus was divided, which limited my fishing success. I made a few casts, then arranged my inanimate subjects and took photos. When my indicator went down on my first strike, I cleanly missed the hook up.

Antonyms

• (work stoppage): industrial peace; lockout

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

• German: streiken

References

Further reading

• strike in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Farmer, John Stephen (1904) Slang and Its Analogues?^[1], volume 7, page 12

Anagrams

• Kister, kiters, trikes

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?ajk/

Noun

strike m (plural strikes)

1. (bowling) a strike

Derived terms

• striker

Related terms

• spare

Italian

Noun

strike m (invariable)

1. strike (in baseball and ten-pin bowling)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English strike.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?st?ajk/, /is.?t?aj.ki/

Noun

strike m (plural strikes)

1. (bowling) strike (the act of knocking down all pins)
2. (baseball) strike (the act of missing a swing at the ball)

Spanish

Etymology

From English strike.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?aik/, [?st??ai?k]

• IPA^(key): /es?t?aik/, [es?t??ai?k]

Noun

strike m (plural strikes)

1. (baseball) strike

2. (bowling) strike