English dictionary definition of:

direct

plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public
command with authority
give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction
put an address on (an envelope)
intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
guide the actors in (plays and films)
lead, as in the performance of a composition
direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
cause to go somewhere
take somebody somewhere
be in charge of

lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact
direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short
(of a current) flowing in one direction only
straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action
similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity
moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth
having no intervening persons, agents, conditions
in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker
in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child
being an immediate result or consequence