direct

Plan and direct (a complex undertaking).

Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling.

Intend (something) to move towards a certain goal.

“criticism directed at her superior”

“direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself”

Point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards.

Be in charge of.

Command with authority.

“He directed the children to do their homework”

Give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction.

“I directed them towards the town hall”

Guide the actors in (plays and films).

Take somebody somewhere.

Put an address on (an envelope).

Specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public.

Lead, as in the performance of a composition.

Cause to go somewhere.

“He directed all his energies into his dissertation”

Without deviation.

“the path leads directly to the lake”

“went direct to the office”

Being an immediate result or consequence.

“a direct result of the accident”

Direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short.

“a direct route”

“a direct flight”

Lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact.

“the direct opposite”

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

(of a current) flowing in one direction only.

“direct current”

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)”

Straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action.

“a direct question”

“a direct response”

Having no intervening persons, agents, conditions.

“in direct sunlight”

“in direct contact with the voters”

In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.

“a direct descendant of the king”

“direct heredity”

In precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker.

“a direct quotation”