direct

What is the Definition of direct?

Verb:

1. command with authority
2. intend (something)
3. guide the actors in (plays and films)
4. be in charge of
5. take somebody somewhere
6. cause to go somewhere
7. point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment)
8. lead, as in the performance of a composition
9. give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction
10. specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public
11. direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
12. put an address on (an envelope)
13. plan and direct (a complex undertaking)

Adjective:

1. direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short
2. having no intervening persons, agents, conditions
3. straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action
4. in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child
5. moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth
6. similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity
7. or decreases
8. or decreases
9. (of a current)
10. being an immediate result or consequence
11. in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker
12. lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact

Adverb:

1. without deviation

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