Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
the most direct route between two buildings
Straightforward; sincere.
Be even and direct with me.
Directly.
The walls, which are fixed direct into the ground without a plinth, are made of wattle and plastered with a thin lair of mud or cowdung.
Borrowed from Latin dīrectus, perfect passive participle of dīrigō (“straighten, direct”), from dis- (“asunder, in pieces, apart, in two”) + regō (“make straight, rule”). Compare dress. Doublet of der...
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They directed their fire towards the men on the wall.
To point out to or show (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; to refer.
He directed me to the left-hand road.