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Indirect

adjective

Having intervening factors or persons or influences. "Indirect evidence" , "An indirect cause"

Not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination. "You must take an indirect course in sailing"

Descended from a common ancestor but through different lines. Synonym: collateral. "An indirect descendant of the Stuarts"

Extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action. "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. "An indirect advantage"

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"Indirect" Quotes from Famous Books

... justified when directed upon important objectives, or necessary points of passage. For this fire to have some efficacy, it is necessary to calculate the range with the greatest precision. On the defensive indirect fire will be employed sometimes to annoy the supply, reliefs, etc. To give results, great quantities of ammunition will have to be expended. All of the officers and non-commissioned officers and as many men as possible must be capable ...

— Military Instructors Manual • James P. Cole and Oliver Schoonmaker

... no more than three per cent. duty on imports,[51] and as this could contribute little to the revenue, that required to be sought elsewhere. A poll-tax, house-tax, land-tax, and many other direct taxes, furnished a part of it, and the balance was obtained by an indirect tax in the form of export duties; and as the corn, tobacco, and cotton of its people were obliged to compete in the general markets of the world with the produce of other lands, it is clear that these duties constituted a ...

— The trade, domestic and foreign • Henry Charles Carey

... whom Jude had written vouchsafed no answer, and the young man was thus thrown back entirely on himself, as formerly, with the added gloom of a weakened hope. By indirect inquiries he soon perceived clearly what he had long uneasily suspected, that to qualify himself for certain open scholarships and exhibitions was the only brilliant course. But to do this a good deal of coaching would be necessary, and much natural ...

— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy

... There remain indirect methods. Astronomers are well acquainted with the proportions which the various planetary orbits bear to each other. They are so connected, in the manner expressed by Kepler's Third Law, that the periods being known, it only needs to find the interval between any two of them in ...

— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

... see,' said Mr. Cupples simply, 'I love my niece. She is the only child that there has been in our—in my house. Moreover, my wife brought her up as a girl, and any reflection on Mabel I could not help feeling, in the heat of the moment, as an indirect reflection ...

— Trent's Last Case - The Woman in Black • E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley

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