The project manager will direct the team's efforts toward completing the archaeological excavation before the rainy season begins.
项目经理将指导团队的努力方向，在雨季开始前完成考古发掘工作。
• Solar panels convert sunlight directly into electricity.
From a Rhetorical Synthesis question · Expression of Ideas
Because lichens grow extremely slowly and absorb minerals directly from the air and rain, scientists use their size to estimate how long a rock surface has been exposed, a technique called lichenometry.
From a Central Ideas and Details question · Information and Ideas
The essay's closing paragraph returns to the question posed in its opening line, this time answering it directly using the evidence and reasoning developed throughout the body of the essay.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
Which choice best defines “direct”?
C — Control, give orders; straight. “direct” means control, give orders; straight.
Which word means “control, give orders; straight”?
D — direct. “direct” means control, give orders; straight.
direct — control, give orders; straight. In Chinese: 指导，直接的.
direct is pronounced /dəˈrekt/.
The project manager will direct the team's efforts toward completing the archaeological excavation before the rainy season begins. (项目经理将指导团队的努力方向，在雨季开始前完成考古发掘工作。)
guide, conduct, steer — all close in meaning to direct (control, give orders; straight).
mislead, follow — each the opposite of direct (control, give orders; straight).
Yes. direct is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.
di(separate)+rect(straight)