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Definition of 'direct' Verb
- command with authority; "He directed the children to do their homework"
- 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"
Synonyms: target aim place point - guide the actors in (plays and films)
- be in charge of
- take somebody somewhere; "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance?"; "He conducted us to the palace"
Synonyms: lead take conduct guide - 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"
Synonyms: send - aim or direct at; as of blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment; "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"
Synonyms: aim take train take aim - lead, as in the performance of a composition; "conduct an orchestra; Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years"
Synonyms: conduct lead - give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction; "I directed them towards the town hall"
- specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public
Synonyms: calculate aim - direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
Synonyms: steer maneuver manoeuver manoeuvre point head guide channelize channelise - put an address on (an envelope)
Synonyms: address - plan and direct (a complex undertaking); "he masterminded the robbery"
Synonyms: mastermind engineer organize organise orchestrate Adjective
- direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short; "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit"
Antonyms: indirect - 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"
Synonyms: unmediated - extended senses; direct in means or manner or behavior or language or action; "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach"
Antonyms: indirect - in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child; "lineal ancestors"; "lineal heirs"; "a direct descendant of the king"; "direct heredity"
Synonyms: lineal
Antonyms: collateral indirect - moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth
Antonyms: retrograde - 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)"
Antonyms: inverse - (of a current) flowing in one direction only; "direct current"
Antonyms: alternating - being an immediate result or consequence; "a direct result of the accident"
- in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker; "a direct quotation"; "repeated their dialog verbatim"
Synonyms: verbatim - lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact; "the direct opposite"
Adverb
- without deviation; "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office"
Synonyms: directly straight
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