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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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He broke off contact with the band and directed all communication to go through his counsel.

From Los Angeles Times

Now that same declaration, expressed with absolute resolve, is directed at Greenland.

From BBC

In mid-January, he said he planned to direct his representatives to purchase $200 billion in mortgage-backed securities, an announcement that pressured mortgage rates down to the lowest level in over three years.

From MarketWatch

But soon after I arrived a college friend in New York asked me to perform in a play he’d written that another college friend of ours was directing.

From The Wall Street Journal

Many patients share overlapping risk factors such as obesity and high blood pressure, making it hard to determine whether the kidneys themselves play a direct role in harming the heart.

From Science Daily