| direct | | |
| direct | (v.) | command with authority.; "He directed the children to do their homework" |
| aim, direct, place, point, target | (v.) | intend (something) to move towards a certain goal.; "He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face"; "criticism directed at her superior"; "direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself" |
| direct | (v.) | guide the actors in (plays and films). |
| direct | (v.) | be in charge of. |
| conduct, direct, guide, lead, take | (v.) | take somebody somewhere.; "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance?"; "He conducted us to the palace" |
| direct, send | (v.) | cause to go somewhere.; "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation" |
| aim, direct, take, take aim, train | (v.) | point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards.; "Please don't aim at your little brother!"; "He trained his gun on the burglar"; "Don't train your camera on the women"; "Take a swipe at one's opponent" |
| conduct, direct, lead | (v.) | lead, as in the performance of a composition.; "conduct an orchestra; Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years" |
| direct | (v.) | give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction.; "I directed them towards the town hall" |
| aim, calculate, direct | (v.) | specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public. |
| channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer | (v.) | direct the course; determine the direction of travelling. |
| address, direct | (v.) | put an address on (an envelope). |
| direct, engineer, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize | (v.) | plan and direct (a complex undertaking).; "he masterminded the robbery" |
| direct | (adj.) | direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short.; "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit" |
| direct, unmediated | (adj.) | having no intervening persons, agents, conditions.; "in direct sunlight"; "in direct contact with the voters"; "direct exposure to the disease"; "a direct link"; "the direct cause of the accident"; "direct vote" |
| direct | (adj.) | straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action.; "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach" |
| direct, lineal | (adj.) | in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.; "lineal ancestors"; "lineal heirs"; "a direct descendant of the king"; "direct heredity" |
| direct | (adj.) | moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth. |
| direct | (adj.) | similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity.; "a term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases)" |
| direct | (adj.) | (of a current) flowing in one direction only.; "direct current" |
| direct | (adj.) | being an immediate result or consequence.; "a direct result of the accident" |
| direct, verbatim | (adj.) | in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker.; "a direct quotation"; "repeated their dialog verbatim" |
| direct | (adj.) | lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact.; "the direct opposite" |
| direct, directly, straight | (adv.) | without deviation.; "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office" |
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