To point out to with authority; to instruct as a
superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.

To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the
name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to
superscribe; as, to direct a letter.

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.

To determine the direction or course of; to cause to go
on in a particular manner; to order in the way to a certain end; to
regulate; to govern; as, to direct the affairs of a nation or the
movements of an army.

To arrange in a direct or straight line, as against a
mark, or towards a goal; to point; to aim; as, to direct an arrow or a
piece of ordnance.

In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in
the direct line.

Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from
truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by
the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct
means.

Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.

To point out or show to (any one), as the direct or
right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; as, he
directed me to the left-hand road.