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1. v. керувати; направляти; спрямовувати; наводити; приписувати; пропонувати; віддавати розпорядження; адресувати; посилати; диригувати; режисерувати

1. To manage or conduct the affairs of; regulate.

2. To have or take charge of; control.

3. To give authoritative instructions to: directed the student to answer.

4. To cause to move toward a goal; aim.

5. To show or indicate the way for: directed us to the airport.

6. To cause to move in or follow a straight course: directed their fire at the target.

7. To indicate the intended recipient on (a letter, for example).

8. To address or adapt (remarks, for example) to a specific person, audience, or purpose.

9. To give guidance and instruction to (actors or musicians, for example) in the rehearsal and performance of a work.

10. To supervise the performance.

11. To give commands or directions.

12. To conduct a performance or rehearsal.

2. adj. прямий; відкритий; правдивий; ясний; очевидний; явний; безпосередній

1. Proceeding without interruption in a straight course or line; not deviating or swerving: a direct route.

2. Straightforward and candid; frank: a direct response.

3. Having no intervening persons, conditions, or agencies; immediate: direct contact; direct sunlight.

4. Effected by action of the voters, rather than through elected representatives or delegates: direct elections.

5. Being of unbroken descent; lineal: a direct descendant of the monarch.

6. Consisting of the exact words of the writer or speaker: a direct quotation.

7. Lacking compromising or mitigating elements; absolute: direct opposites.

8. Mathematics. Varying in the same manner as another quantity, especially increasing if another quantity increases or decreasing if it decreases.

9. Astronomy. Designating west-to-east motion of a planet in the same direction as the sun's movement against the stars.

3. adv. прямо; відразу; безпосередньо