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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.

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Well, you certainly know how to ask a direct question.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026

Actor Tommy Dorfman snatched up the rights to write and direct the body thriller.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

The Ifab has now accepted the request, and says that any foul before the ball is in play that has a direct impact can be reviewed.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

Canada, on the other hand, has done exactly the opposite: If you have a direct ancestor born across the northern border, no matter how far back, you probably qualify.

From Salon • May 31, 2026

No explicit articulation of those assumptions had been necessary in a national forum before 1790, because no frontal assault on slavery had been made that required a direct or systematic response.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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