Definition of directs

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• directs is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 10
• directs is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 10
• directs is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 11

Definition of directs

• plan and direct (a complex undertaking) (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. engineer
  2. mastermind
  3. orchestrate
  4. organise
  5. organize
• take somebody somewhere (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. conduct
  2. guide
  3. lead
  4. take
• having no intervening persons, agents, conditions (adjective)

  Examples

  1. in direct sunlight
  2. in direct contact with the voters
  3. direct exposure to the disease
  4. a direct link
  5. the direct cause of the accident
  6. direct vote

  Synonyms

  1. unmediated
• put an address on (an envelope) (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. address
• specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. aim
  2. calculate
• lead, as in the performance of a composition (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. conduct
  2. lead
• in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a direct descendant of the king
  2. direct heredity

  Synonyms

  1. lineal
• cause to go somewhere (verb)

  Examples

  1. He directed all his energies into his dissertation

  Synonyms

  1. send
• in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a direct quotation

  Synonyms

  1. verbatim
• without deviation (adverb)

  Examples

  1. the path leads directly to the lake
  2. went direct to the office

  Synonyms

  1. directly
  2. straight
• direct the course; determine the direction of travelling (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. channelise
  2. channelize
  3. guide
  4. head
  5. maneuver
  6. manoeuver
  7. manoeuvre
  8. point
  9. steer
• intend (something) to move towards a certain goal (verb)

  Examples

  1. criticism directed at her superior
  2. direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself

  Synonyms

  1. aim
  2. place
  3. point
  4. target
• point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. aim
  2. take
  3. take aim
  4. train
• be in charge of (verb)
• being an immediate result or consequence (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a direct result of the accident
• command with authority (verb)

  Examples

  1. He directed the children to do their homework
• direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a direct route
  2. a direct flight
  3. a direct hit
• give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction (verb)

  Examples

  1. I directed them towards the town hall
• guide the actors in (plays and films) (verb)
• lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact (adjective)

  Examples

  1. the direct opposite
• moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth (adjective)
• (of a current) flowing in one direction only (adjective)

  Examples

  1. direct current
• similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases)
• straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a direct question
  2. a direct response
  3. a direct approach

See definition of directs in Merriam Webster