directs

Synonyms for directs

verb manage, oversee

late 14c., from Latin directus "straight," past participle of dirigere "set straight" (see direct (v.)).

And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.

We are told that judgment or taste "directs the combination."

God requires that we should do no otherwise than as he directs.

What is it originates, directs, and controls the motive power?

"Mookoomahn and those that are with him will do as Sishetakushin directs," said Mookoomahn.

But religion has God for its object, for it directs us to God alone.

"I have always found it best to do just as Merriwell directs," said Hodge, stiffly.

Here she directs a slow lingering glance at him from her violet eyes.

That interest is to his help or hurt, according as he directs it.

Crescenzi directs the walling, and Smith of Deanston the ploughing.