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indirect English

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indirect

If something is indirect, it is not straight and does not follow the shortest possible way.

indirect

having intervening factors or persons or influences reflection from the ceiling provided a soft indirect light indirect evidence an indirect cause not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination sometimes taking an indirect path saves time you must take an indirect course in sailing extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action making indirect but legitimate inquiries an indirect insult doubtless they had some indirect purpose in mind though his methods are indirect they are not dishonest known as a shady indirect fellow not as a direct effect or consequence indirect benefits an indirect advantage (= collateral) descended from a common ancestor but through different lines cousins are collateral relatives an indirect descendant of the Stuarts

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Simple sentences

Taxes consist of direct taxes and indirect ones.
You need to complete the exercise using indirect speech.

Movie subtitles

Is it because of our indirect contact and what happened at Kamine Island?
Not so much by natural death, as by indirect suicide.
Mothproof closets, filtered ventilation and indirect lighting.
That's rather an indirect route, isn't it?
The direct and the indirect.
Naturally, she thought that the indirect would not be as direct as the direct.
Prosecution wants to discredit the witness by indirect examination.
It's a kind of indirect fraud.
Excuse me, Colonel. It seems to be that, perhaps out of an excess of caution, my colleagues keep asking you indirect questions to which you can only reply in a roundabout way.
Under arrest, I became an indirect threat to whoever ordered the killing.
The opportunity foran indirect contact arose.
Indirect, okay?
It was indirect.
May I take your utterance as an indirect promise of a further talk on the subject of Emilie's and the children's freedom of movement?
Naturally, she thought that the indirect would not be as direct. as the direct.
Indirect.
It seems to be that, perhaps out of an excess of caution, my colleagues keep asking you indirect questions to which you can only reply in a roundabout way.
Magda, the light should be indirect!
In Hong Kong, and we can reach it only by indirect contact.
The indirect effect is a catalyst of chlorophyll production, also used in the photosynthesis process.
What would it cost for your indirect involvement?
I'm talking about the indirect violence you get through starvation in the townships.
The White House denies any direct or indirect involvement in this investigation.
I can plot a course, but only an indirect route.
Indirect stuff.
It's the indirect lighting.
Why choose me, since you were the indirect victim of the crime that's been committed?
Fie, what indirect and peevish course is this of hers.
Why this indirect praise?
Did you by indirect and forced courses subdue and poison this young maid's affections?
It was a wonderful house academic monk named Berthold Schwartz. and now it was something indirect a feudal village.
And the fake dollars are put into circulation in an indirect way. In America, Mexico and Brazil.
Indirect questions can be simple or compound.
For the last few hundred years, there have been persuasive but indirect arguments that all matter is made of atoms.

News and current affairs

Differences in indirect taxes such as VAT pose another way in which borders become obstacles to trade.
The US will then face not only the direct effects of a fiscal drag, but also its indirect effect on private spending.
The direct and indirect costs were relatively minor and affordable.
Other programs may help in indirect ways, but there obviously is much room for improvement.
Likewise, prior to Premier Wen Jiabao's trip to India in 2010, China began issuing visas on loose sheets of paper stapled into the passports of Kashmir residents applying to enter China - an indirect challenge to India's sovereignty.
Promoting private insurance may seem an indirect response to the tsunami disaster, but it is a rational - and powerful - response.
Today, China's proclivity for industrial production is manifested in large-scale manufacturing and infrastructure projects, encouraged by direct and indirect government subsidies.
At the start of the process, China will have small and indirect ownership stakes in a great many US enterprises, and the odds are that the usual objections will be absent.
While the economic toll of graft cannot be precisely quantified, indirect evidence suggests that the costs are significant.
Another approach estimates the total change in mortality that the war caused (including deaths due to the war's direct and indirect effects) by calculating the change in the death rate from the pre-war period.
In its way, All4Syria has provided an indirect conduit for dialogue between government and opposition, which may not have taken place otherwise.
The Germans fear that such innovations would lead to a rise in domestic borrowing costs, and to direct and indirect fiscal transfers to poorer countries.
The best therapy for reinvigorating growth is both direct, by increasing competitive pressure, and indirect, by triggering the necessary adaptation in national employment, welfare, and education policies.
For starters, the impact of rules and regulations can be direct or indirect.
The European Central Bank is taking a similarly indirect approach.
Yet, even at times when fighting is less intense Congo suffers from the indirect effects of the war.
The effectiveness of such a cooperative approach was apparent in the Egypt-sponsored indirect talks with Israel.
That is why, over the last decade, physicists have begun to look for indirect evidence of quantum gravity.
These tests work much like those that use the stability of atoms as indirect evidence for the quantization of the electromagnetic force.

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