indirectness 的定义
- not in a direct course or path; deviating from a straight line; roundabout: an indirect course in sailing.
- coming or resulting otherwise than directly or immediately, as effects or consequences: an indirect advantage.
- not direct in action or procedure: His methods are indirect but not dishonest.
- not straightforward; devious; deceitful: He is known as a shady, indirect fellow.
- not direct in bearing, application, force, etc.: indirect evidence.
- Grammar. of, relating to, or characteristic of indirect discourse: an indirect quote.
- not descending in a direct line of succession, as a title or inheritance.
indirectness 近义词
等同于 circumlocution
更多indirectness例句
- What they didn’t measure was the “indirect” effect of vaccines in preventing the further spread of the virus, even though some computer models have predicted that blocking transmission could save more lives.
- Besides, high readability levels will make your content hard to understand for people with various cognitive disabilities, so this may be another indirect signal to Google that your content is good for a limited audience.
- Under the newly passed requirement, brokers and consultants must tell employers the various forms of direct or indirect compensation they receive from vendors associated with a health plan.
- Respiratory indirect calorimetry is typically done at a doctor’s office, although small, portable, more affordable devices are increasingly being brought to market.
- One indirect way to do it is to fill it with three-dimensional triangular tiles.
- This is true, but it indicates the other, more indirect cost of Edmund.
- Living with the threat of random death raining down leads to a strange way of life, a pathology of indirect fire.
- Instead, officials are musing about indirect sources of supply, by and through third countries.
- And the new channels tend to be underground, indirect, and unaccountable.
- Additionally, if inflation happened, it was so early on that we can only ever see indirect evidence for it.
- In such cases, Synthesis, which is taught hereafter, develops an indirect relation.
- Indirect lighting gave a pretty gleam to the metal gadgets on the tables.
- Here undoubtedly we may see the indirect influence which the New School exercised upon Tchaikovsky.
- Signalized as the hardiest of the indirect allies of the brigands in the affair of the "Chauffeurs of Mortagne."
- Robert Burns, who has sung of the haggis and the whisky of his native land, has only made indirect mention of porridge.