Directs Meaning

There are 24 meaning(s) for word Directs

Meaning 1 : plan and direct (a complex undertaking)

    Synonyms : engineer,  mastermind,  orchestrate,  organise,  organize
Meaning 2 : take somebody somewhere

    Synonyms : conduct,  guide,  lead,  take
Meaning 3 : having no intervening persons, agents, conditions

    Example : 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
Meaning 4 : put an address on (an envelope)

    Synonyms : address
Meaning 5 : specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public

    Synonyms : aim,  calculate
Meaning 6 : lead, as in the performance of a composition

    Synonyms : conduct,  lead
Meaning 7 : in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child

    Example : a direct descendant of the king,direct heredity

    Synonyms : lineal
Meaning 8 : cause to go somewhere

    Example : He directed all his energies into his dissertation

    Synonyms : send
Meaning 9 : in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker

    Example : a direct quotation

    Synonyms : verbatim
Meaning 10 : without deviation

    Example : the path leads directly to the lake,went direct to the office

    Synonyms : directly,  straight
Meaning 11 : direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

    Synonyms : channelise,  channelize,  guide,  head,  maneuver,  manoeuver,  manoeuvre,  point,  steer
Meaning 12 : intend (something) to move towards a certain goal

    Example : criticism directed at her superior,direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself

    Synonyms : aim,  place,  point,  target
Meaning 13 : point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards

    Synonyms : aim,  take,  take aim,  train
Meaning 14 : be in charge of

Meaning 15 : being an immediate result or consequence

    Example : a direct result of the accident

Meaning 16 : command with authority

    Example : He directed the children to do their homework

Meaning 17 : direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short

    Example : a direct route,a direct flight,a direct hit

Meaning 18 : give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction

    Example : I directed them towards the town hall

Meaning 19 : guide the actors in (plays and films)

Meaning 20 : lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact

    Example : the direct opposite

Meaning 21 : moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth

Meaning 22 : (of a current) flowing in one direction only

    Example : direct current

Meaning 23 : similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity

    Example : a term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases)

Meaning 24 : straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action

    Example : a direct question,a direct response,a direct approach