direct vs motion

direct

verb
  • To point out to or show (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way. 

  • To manage, control, steer. 

  • To aim (something) at (something else). 

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

adv
  • Directly. 

adj
  • having a single flight number. 

  • Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end. 

  • Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates. 

  • Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous. 

  • Proceeding without deviation or interruption. 

  • Straightforward; sincere. 

  • In the line of descent; not collateral. 

  • 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. 

motion

verb
  • To gesture indicating a desired movement. 

  • To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure. 

  • To make a proposal; to offer plans. 

noun
  • A change from one place to another. 

  • A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement. 

  • A state of progression from one place to another. 

  • from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place. 

  • A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant. 

  • A change of position with respect to time. 

  • A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting. 

  • A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive. 

  • Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity. 

  • Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.) 

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