Usually means: Guides actions or operations authoritatively.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word DIRECTS:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. directs: Merriam-Webster
  2. directs: Collins English Dictionary
  3. directs: Vocabulary.com
  4. Direct's, Directs, direct's, directs: Wordnik
  5. directs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. directs: Wiktionary
  7. directs: Dictionary.com
  8. directs: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. directs: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. directs: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. directs: Legal dictionary
  3. directs: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. directs: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. directs: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. directs: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (direct)

adjective:  Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
adjective:  Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
adjective:  Straightforward; sincere.
adjective:  Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
adjective:  In the line of descent; not collateral.
adjective:  (astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; said of the motion of a celestial body.
adjective:  (political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates.
adjective:  (aviation, travel) Having a single flight number.
adjective:  (mathematics, logic, of a proof) Not employing the law of the excluded middle or argument by contradiction.
adverb:  Directly.
verb:  To manage, control, steer.
verb:  To aim (something) at (something else).
verb:  To point out to or show (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
verb:  To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
verb:  (dated) To address (a letter) to a particular person or place.
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