What is the meaning of the word "direct"?

Definitions:

(of a current) flowing in one direction only adjective
- direct current
being an immediate result or consequence adjective
- a direct result of the accident
command with authority verb
- They directed the children to do their homework.
direct the course verb
- determine the direction of travelling
give directions to verb
- point somebody into a certain direction
having no intervening persons, agents, conditions adjective
- in direct sunlight
in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker adjective
- a direct quotation
moving from west to east on the celestial sphere adjective
- orfor planetsaround the sun in the same direction as the Earth
similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity adjective
- 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
- a direct question
without deviation adverb
- the path leads directly to the lake