Direct vs. Oversee — What's the Difference?

Extending or moving from one place to another without changing direction or stopping

Supervise (a person or their work), especially in an official capacity

Without intervening factors or intermediaries

To watch over and direct; supervise.

(of a person or their behaviour) going straight to the point; frank

(literally) To survey, look at something in a wide angle.

Perpendicular to a surface; not oblique

(figuratively) To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.

With no one or nothing in between

To inspect, examine

Control the operations of; manage or govern

(obsolete) To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.

Aim (something) in a particular direction or at a particular person

To observe secretly or unintentionally.

Give (someone) an official order or authoritative instruction

To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook{2}.

To manage or regulate the business or affairs of; be in charge of

To omit or neglect seeing; to overlook{5}.

To supervise or oversee (an activity or process)

To see unintentionally or unexpectedly; - the visual analogy to overhear.

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

To see too or too much; hence, to be deceived.

To supervise the performance or production of

Watch and direct;

To give an order to; command

To show or indicate the way for

To cause to move in a certain direction or toward a certain object; turn or point

To concentrate or focus (one's sight or attention, for example) on a particular object or activity.

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

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

To give commands or directions.

To conduct a performance or rehearsal.

See direct examination.

Proceeding without interruption in a straight course or line; not deviating or swerving

Straightforward and candid; not devious or ambiguous

Having no intervening persons, conditions, or agencies; immediate

Effected by action of the voters, rather than through elected representatives or delegates

Being of unbroken descent; lineal

Consisting of the exact words of the writer or speaker

Lacking compromising or mitigating elements; absolute

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

(Astronomy) Designating west-to-east motion of a planet in the same direction as the sun's apparent annual movement with respect to the stars.

(Sports) Being a direct free kick.

Straight; directly.

Proceeding without deviation or interruption.

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.

Straightforward; sincere.

Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.

In the line of descent; not collateral.

(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.

(political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates.

Having a single flight number.

Directly.

To manage, control, steer.

To aim (something) at (something else).

To point out to or show (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.

To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.

(dated) To address (a letter) to a particular person or place.

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.

Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.

In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.

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.

Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates; as, direct nomination, direct legislation.

To arrange in a direct or straight line, as against a mark, or towards a goal; to point; to aim; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance.

To point out or show to (any one), as the direct or right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; as, he directed me to the left-hand road.

To determine the direction or course of; to cause to go on in a particular manner; to order in the way to a certain end; to regulate; to govern; as, to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army.

To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.

To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to superscribe; as, to direct a letter.

To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.

A character, thus [ ], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation.

Command with authority;

Intend (something) to move towards a certain goal;

Guide the actors in (plays and films)

Be in charge of

Take somebody somewhere;

Cause to go somewhere;

Aim or direct at; as of blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment;

Lead, as in the performance of a composition;

Give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction;

Specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public

Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

Put an address on (an envelope, for example)

Plan and direct (a complex undertaking);

Direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short;

Immediate or direct in bearing or force; having nothing intervening;

Extended senses; direct in means or manner or behavior or language or action;

In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child;

Moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth

Similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity;

Of a current flowing in one direction only; not alternating;

As an immediate result or consequence;

In precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker;

Effected directly by action of the voters rather than through elected representatives;

Exact;

Without deviation;