indirect
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
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Etymology: From Middle French indirect, from Late Latin indirectus (“not direct”).
Inflected forms:
form: more indirect
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most indirect
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: indirects
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: indirects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: indirecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: indirected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: indirected
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Not direct
pos: adj
examples: While not mentioning any of their competitors by name, the CEO made some indirect statements that they were acting immorally.
Se asked him some indirect questions to ascertain whether he was single.
Indirect messages permit communicative contacts when, without them, the alternatives would be total inhibition, silence, and solitude on the one hand, or, on the other, communicative behavior that is direct, offensive, and hence forbidden. This is a painful choice. In actual practice, neither alternative is likely to result in the gratification of personal or sexual needs. In this dilemma, indirect communications provide a useful compromise. As an early move in the dating game, the young man might invite the young woman to dinner or to the movies.
gloss: Not direct:
pos: adj
examples: The direct result of socialising every day in the bars may be happiness and meeting new people, but the indirect results could be addiction, or even poverty.
gloss: Not direct:
pos: adj
gloss: Not direct:
pos: adj
examples: In an effort to beat the traffic jams, they opted to take an indirect route to their destination.
gloss: Not direct:
pos: adj
gloss: Figuratively
pos: adj
gloss: Figuratively
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Did you, by indirect, and forced courſes / Subdue, and poyſon this tong Maides affections? / Or came it by requeſt, and ſuch faire queſtion / As ſoule, to ſoule affordeth?
gloss: An indirect cost.
pos: noun
examples: In the case of a piece of equipment such as a pump, the supplier's costs may be broken down into the directs of labour, material, and component costs on the one hand, and the indirects of customized engineering, sales, factory overheads, and order management costs on the other.
2010, Anna M. Gil-Lafuente and José M. Merigó (editos), Computational Intelligence in Business and Economics
Gradually analytical thinking was taking a greater awareness of the importance it took for all the investigation system of the possible identification or traceability of fixed costs and, in general, of the indirects of other times.
gloss: An indirect radiator.
pos: noun
examples: Indirect radiators are seldom installed except for rooms on the first or second floors; and in the former case the duct, D, is very short, and in the latter it is usually from 12 to 16 feet long. It should be stated in this connection that indirects of large size should be spread out as much as possible so as to give a large area against the current of air.
gloss: To access by means of indirection; to dereference.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The X operations access the data fields by indirecting through the _rep pointer.
These correspond to an indirected parallel write and an indirected parallel read operation respectively.
Antonyms: direct
Related words: indirection
Derived words: free indirect discourse
free indirect style
indirect anagram
indirect cost
indirect dye
indirect election
indirect fire
indirect free kick
indirectivity
indirect kiss
indirectly
indirect maternal death
indirectness
indirect object
indirect predation
indirect procurement
indirect question
indirect quotation
indirect red card
indirect report
indirect speech
indirect tax
indirect transitive
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: dolayı
lang: Bulgarian
word: непряк
roman: neprjak
lang: Bulgarian
word: косвен
roman: kosven
lang: Catalan
word: indirecte
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 間接 /间接
roman: jiànjiē
lang: Cornish
word: andhidro
lang: Czech
word: nepřímý
lang: Dutch
word: onrechtstreeks
lang: Dutch
word: indirect
lang: Esperanto
word: nerekta
lang: Finnish
word: epäsuora
lang: Finnish
word: välillinen
lang: French
word: indirect
lang: Galician
word: indirecto
lang: German
word: indirekt
lang: Greek
word: έμμεσος
roman: émmesos
lang: Hungarian
word: indirekt
lang: Hungarian
word: közvetett
lang: Italian
word: indiretto
lang: Latin
word: obliquus
lang: Māori
word: porowhawhe
lang: Polish
word: pośredni
lang: Portuguese
word: indireto
lang: Russian
word: ко́свенный
roman: kósvennyj
lang: Russian
word: непрямо́й
roman: neprjamój
lang: Slovak
word: nepriamy
lang: Spanish
word: indirecto
lang: Welsh
word: anuniongyrchol