direct

  • (verb): To manage, control, steer.
  • (verb): To aim (something) at (something else).
  • (verb): To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
  • (verb): To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
  • (verb): To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent.
  • (adjective): Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
  • (adjective): Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
  • (adjective): Straightforward; sincere.
  • (adjective): Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
  • (adjective): In the line of descent; not collateral.
  • (adjective): 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.
  • (adjective): Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates.
  • (adjective): (travel) having a single flight number.
  • (adverb): Directly.
  • to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army
  • He directed his question to the room in general.
  • He directed me to the left-hand road.
  • She directed them to leave immediately.
  • to direct a letter