Definition of "Direct" :

verb: plan and direct (a complex undertaking)

verb: specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public

verb: command with authority

"He directed the children to do their homework."

verb: give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction

"I directed them towards the town hall."

verb: put an address on (an envelope)

verb: intend (something) to move towards a certain goal

"Criticism directed at her superior."

verb: point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards

verb: guide the actors in (plays and films)

verb: lead, as in the performance of a composition

verb: direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

verb: cause to go somewhere

"He directed all his energies into his dissertation."

verb: take somebody somewhere

verb: be in charge of

adjective: lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact

"The direct opposite."

adjective: direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short

"A direct route."

adjective: (of a current) flowing in one direction only

"Direct current."

adjective: straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action

"A direct question."

adjective: 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)."

adjective: moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth

adjective: having no intervening persons, agents, conditions

"In direct sunlight."

adjective: in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker

"A direct quotation."

adjective: in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child

"A direct descendant of the king."

adjective: being an immediate result or consequence

"A direct result of the accident."

adverb: without deviation

"The path leads directly to the lake."