(Electricity) Of a current flowing in one direction only; not alternating.

ETYM Latin directus, p. p. of dirigere to direct: cf. French direct. Related to Dress, Dirge.
1. Proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short.
2. As an immediate result or consequence.
3. Immediate or direct in bearing or force; having nothing intervening.
4. Exact.
5. Effected directly by action of the voters rather than through elected representatives.
6. Extended senses; direct in means or manner or behavior or language or action.
7. In precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker; SYN. verbatim.

(Mathematics) Varying in the same manner as another quantity.

(Astronomy) Moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth.

In a direct way: as from point to point without deviation; by the shortest way; from the source without interruption or diversion; without an intervening agency or step

1. To be in charge of.
2. To command with authority.
3. To give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction; SYN. point.
4. To guide the actors in (plays and films).