direct





direct - verb

  • command with authority
  • intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
  • guide the actors in (plays and films)
  • be in charge of
  • take somebody somewhere
  • cause to go somewhere
  • point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
  • lead, as in the performance of a composition
  • give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction
  • specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public
  • direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
  • put an address on (an envelope)
  • plan and direct (a complex undertaking)

direct - adjective

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

direct - adverb

  • without deviation

direct - thesaurus

address   aim   calculate   channelise   channelize   conduct   directly   engineer   guide   head   lead   lineal   maneuver American English spelling   manoeuver   manoeuvre British English spelling   mastermind   orchestrate   organise British English spelling   organize American English spelling   place   point   send   steer   straight   take   target   train   unmediated   verbatim  

Scrabble score for direct

d is 2 i is 1 r is 1 e is 1 c is 3 t is 1
Scrabble score = 9

generated at 14:38:49 on 13-08-24

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