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direct

[dih-rekt, dahy-] / dɪˈrɛkt, daɪ- /










Usage

What are other ways to say direct? To direct is to give information for guidance, or instructions or orders for a course of procedure: to direct someone to the station. To conduct is to precede or escort them to a place, sometimes with a degree of ceremony: to conduct a guest to his room. Guide implies continuous presence or agency in showing or indicating a course: to guide a traveler. To lead is to bring them onward in a course, guiding by contact or by going in advance; hence, figuratively, to influence or induce to some course of conduct: to lead a procession; to lead astray.

Example Sentences

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Even if Fern’s direct impact on electricity wasn’t awful, its longer-term impact on prices could be more severe.

From Barron's

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From Barron's

Even though she was smiling, her voice had a combination of strain and relief that Coal had heard in other mothers’ voices, but never directed toward himself.

From Literature

Workers accused Kaiser Permanente of unlawfully undermining negotiations and attempting to intimidate workers by warning them about the consequences of striking and directing their peers to report union activity to management.

From Los Angeles Times

One potential method could be a directed share program, which companies use to set aside shares for a specific group of people that have a relationship with them, according to experts.

From MarketWatch