direct

Meanings

Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
Straightforward; sincere.
Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
In the line of descent; not collateral.
In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; said of the motion of a celestial body.
Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates.
having a single flight number.

To manage, control, steer.
To aim (something) at (something else).
To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent.

Borrowed from Latin dīrectus, perfect passive participle of dīrigō, from dis- + regō. Compare dress.

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