Wondering how to use Indirect in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as devious or circuitous.
Indirect meaning
- Not direct
- Not direct:
- Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result.
Synonyms of Indirect
Indirect vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Indirect
- The main meaning on this page is: Not direct | Not direct: | Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result.
- Useful related words include: devious, circuitous, roundabout, rambling.
- Possible Dutch translations are: onrechtstreeks, indirect.
- In the example corpus, indirect often appears in combinations such as: and indirect, an indirect, the indirect.
Context around Indirect
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 8 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Indirect
- In this selection, "indirect" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, positive, test, direct, object, fire and addressing stand out and add context to how "indirect" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 4ig an indirect 51 percent and a further indirect benefit to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "indirect" sits close to words such as abraham, awkward and bleeding, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with indirect
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Indirect addressing The indirect modes are useful for array processing and other looping. (13 words)
Objects of verbs can be either direct or indirect, while objects of prepositions are neither direct nor indirect. (18 words)
Indirect reference counting In indirect reference counting, it is necessary to keep track of whom the reference was obtained from. (20 words)
A further indirect benefit to the economy comes from the savings accounts of one-person households, which tend to save at higher rates, according to a 2019 study, in part because they aren’t able to share financial risk the way families can. (43 words)
He said: “Having gone through the provisions of our party’s constitution and the resolution of its NEC where it suggested direct, indirect or consensus method in conducting our primaries, I want to move that Plateau should adopt indirect primaries. (40 words)
A different route was chosen by the Soviets, who didn't develop a specialized indirect fire vehicle, but following a tradition of dual-purpose towed artillery, built a series of versatile assault guns with indirect fire capabilities (example ISU-152 ). (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
The deal gives the state of Hungary an indirect 49 percent ownership in Vodafone Hungary and 4iG an indirect 51 percent stake in Hungary’s second largest telecommunication company.
Interference with Serological Testing – Daratumumab binds to CD38 on red blood cells (RBCs) and results in a positive Indirect Antiglobulin Test (Indirect Coombs test).
He said: “Having gone through the provisions of our party’s constitution and the resolution of its NEC where it suggested direct, indirect or consensus method in conducting our primaries, I want to move that Plateau should adopt indirect primaries.
A different route was chosen by the Soviets, who didn't develop a specialized indirect fire vehicle, but following a tradition of dual-purpose towed artillery, built a series of versatile assault guns with indirect fire capabilities (example ISU-152 ).
Analysis using Searle's theory In order to generalize this sketch of an indirect request, Searle proposes a program for the analysis of indirect speech act performances, whatever they are.
As in the case of the load and store instructions, there was an indirect bit that would perform a single level of indirect addressing.
Indirect addresses had the same format as instructions, and the address modification indicated by the tag field of the indirect address was performed at each level.
Indirect addressing The indirect modes are useful for array processing and other looping.
Indirect fire main Indirect fire, the firing of a projectile without relying on direct line of sight between the gun and the target, possibly dates back to the 16th century.
Indirect reference counting In indirect reference counting, it is necessary to keep track of whom the reference was obtained from.
Indirect taxes are imposed on events, rights, privileges, and activities. citation Thus, a tax on the sale of property would be considered an indirect tax, whereas the tax on simply owning the property itself would be a direct tax.
It is very common, although by no means obligatory, to use the indirect-object pronoun redundantly when the indirect object appears somewhere after the verb: * Juan (le) dijo la verdad a María.
Note that an indirect object can often be re-worded with a prepositional phrase using "to" or "for", but is no longer an indirect object.
Objects of verbs can be either direct or indirect, while objects of prepositions are neither direct nor indirect.
The indirect election of the president through the electoral college conforms to the concept of republic as one with a system of indirect election.
The indirect pointer may be followed by operands which are stored in the indirect "block" rather than storing them repeatedly in the thread.
The OED defines all classical uses of the word "whom" in situations where the indirect object is not known – in effect, indicating the anonymity of the indirect object.
According to the leading British polling agency Opinion Research Business, more than 1 million Iraqis have died as a direct or indirect result of the US invasion.
A further indirect benefit to the economy comes from the savings accounts of one-person households, which tend to save at higher rates, according to a 2019 study, in part because they aren’t able to share financial risk the way families can.
And at the University of Toronto, neuroscientist David Hampson and his group tried introducing a smaller gene that would fit in a single AAV vector and compensate for the deficiency in an indirect way.
Common combinations with indirect
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and indirect 37×
- an indirect 35×
- the indirect 16×
- or indirect 15×
- of indirect 12×
- indirect jobs 12×
- indirect taxes 9×
- indirect fire 8×
- indirect costs 8×
- indirect tax 7×