What is the meaning of direct?

verb

• Command with authority.
  • usage: "He directed the children to do their homework"
• 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"
  • synonyms: target, aim, place, point
• Guide the actors in (plays and films. )
• Be in charge of.
• Take somebody somewhere.
  • usage: "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.
  • usage: "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
• 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"
  • synonyms: aim, take, train, take aim
• Lead, as in the performance of a composition.
  • usage: "conduct an orchestra; Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years"
  • synonyms: conduct, lead
• Give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction.
  • usage: "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. )
  • usage: "he masterminded the robbery"
  • synonyms: mastermind, engineer, organize, organise, orchestrate

adjective

• Direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short.
  • usage: "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit"
• 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"
  • synonyms: unmediated
• Straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action.
  • usage: "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach"
• In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.
  • usage: "lineal ancestors"; "lineal heirs"; "a direct descendant of the king"; "direct heredity"
  • synonyms: lineal
• 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)
  • usage: "a term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases. "
• Of a current. ( flowing in one direction only)
  • usage: "direct current"
• Being an immediate result or consequence.
  • usage: "a direct result of the accident"
• In precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker.
  • usage: "a direct quotation"; "repeated their dialog verbatim"
  • synonyms: verbatim
• Lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact.
  • usage: "the direct opposite"

adverb

• Without deviation.
  • usage: "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office"
  • synonyms: directly, straight