Meaning of direct in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

verb

• To manage, control, steer.

  Example: to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army

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

  Example: He directed his question to the room in general.

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

  Example: He directed me to the left-hand road.

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

  Example: She directed them to leave immediately.

• To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent.

  Example: to direct a letter

adjective

• Proceeding without deviation or interruption.

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

  Example: the most direct route between two buildings

• Straightforward; sincere.

• Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.

• In the line of descent; not collateral.

  Example: a descendant in the direct line

• 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.

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

  Example: direct nomination; direct legislation

• (travel) having a single flight number.

adverb

• Directly.