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