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  Indirect \In`di*rect"\, a. [Pref. in- not + direct: cf. F.
     indirect.]
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     1. Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a
        direct line or course; circuitous; as, an indirect road.
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     2. Not tending to an aim, purpose, or result by the plainest
        course, or by obvious means, but obliquely or
        consequentially; by remote means; as, an indirect
        accusation, attack, answer, or proposal.
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              By what bypaths and indirect, crooked ways
              I met this crown.                     --Shak.
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     3. Not straightforward or upright; unfair; dishonest; tending
        to mislead or deceive.
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              Indirect dealing will be discovered one time or
              other.                                --Tillotson.
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     4. Not resulting directly from an act or cause, but more or
        less remotely connected with or growing out of it; as,
        indirect results, damages, or claims.
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     5. (Logic & Math.) Not reaching the end aimed at by the most
        plain and direct method; as, an indirect proof,
        demonstration, etc.
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     Indirect claims, claims for remote or consequential damage.
        Such claims were presented to and thrown out by the
        commissioners who arbitrated the damage inflicted on the
        United States by the Confederate States cruisers built and
        supplied by Great Britain.
  
     Indirect demonstration, a mode of demonstration in which
        proof is given by showing that any other supposition
        involves an absurdity (reductio ad absurdum), or an
        impossibility; thus, one quantity may be proved equal to
        another by showing that it can be neither greater nor
        less.
  
     Indirect discourse. (Gram.) See Direct discourse, under
        Direct.
  
     Indirect evidence, evidence or testimony which is
        circumstantial or inferential, but without witness; --
        opposed to direct evidence.
  
     Indirect tax, a tax, such as customs, excises, etc.,
        exacted directly from the merchant, but paid indirectly by
        the consumer in the higher price demanded for the articles
        of merchandise.
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  Indirect \In`di*rect"\, a. [Pref. in- not + direct: cf. F.
     indirect.]
     1. Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a
        direct line or course; circuitous; as, an indirect road.
  
     2. Not tending to an aim, purpose, or result by the plainest
        course, or by obvious means, but obliquely or
        consequentially; by remote means; as, an indirect
        accusation, attack, answer, or proposal.
  
              By what bypaths and indirect, crooked ways I met
              this crown.                           --Shak.
  
     3. Not straightforward or upright; unfair; dishonest; tending
        to mislead or deceive.
  
              Indirect dealing will be discovered one time or
              other.                                --Tillotson.
  
     4. Not resulting directly from an act or cause, but more or
        less remotely connected with or growing out of it; as,
        indirect results, damages, or claims.
  
     5. (Logic & Math.) Not reaching the end aimed at by the most
        plain and direct method; as, an indirect proof,
        demonstration, etc.
  
     Indirect claims, claims for remote or consequential damage.
        Such claims were presented to and thrown out by the
        commissioners who arbitrated the damage inflicted on the
        United States by the Confederate States cruisers built and
        supplied by Great Britain.
  
     Indirect demonstration, a mode of demonstration in which
        proof is given by showing that any other supposition
        involves an absurdity (reductio ad absurdum), or an
        impossibility; thus, one quantity may be proved equal to
        another by showing that it can be neither greater nor
        less.
  
     Indirect discourse. (Gram.) See Direct discourse, under
        Direct.
  
     Indirect evidence, evidence or testimony which is
        circumstantial or inferential, but without witness; --
        opposed to direct evidence.
  
     Indirect tax, a tax, such as customs, excises,

  Demonstration \Dem`on*stra"tion\, n. [L. demonstratio: cf. F.
     d['e]monstration.]
     1. The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof;
        especially, proof beyond the possibility of doubt;
        indubitable evidence, to the senses or reason.
  
              Those intervening ideas which serve to show the
              agreement of any two others are called ``proofs;''
              and where agreement or disagreement is by this means
              plainly and clearly perceived, it is called
              demonstration.                        --Locke.
  
     2. An expression, as of the feelings, by outward signs; a
        manifestation; a show.
  
              Did your letters pierce the queen to any
              demonstration of grief?               --Shak.
  
              Loyal demonstrations toward the prince. --Prescott.
  
     3. (Anat.) The exhibition and explanation of a dissection or
        other anatomical preparation.
  
     4. (Mil.) a decisive exhibition of force, or a movement
        indicating an attack.
  
     5. (Logic) The act of proving by the syllogistic process, or
        the proof itself.
  
     6. (Math.) A course of reasoning showing that a certain
        result is a necessary consequence of assumed premises; --
        these premises being definitions, axioms, and previously
        established propositions.
  
     Direct, or Positive, demonstration (Logic & Math.), one
        in which the correct conclusion is the immediate sequence
        of reasoning from axiomatic or established premises; --
        opposed to
  
     Indirect, or Negative, demonstration (called also
        reductio ad absurdum), in which the correct conclusion
        is an inference from the demonstration that any other
        hypothesis must be incorrect.

  Tax \Tax\, n. [F. taxe, fr. taxer to tax, L. taxare to touch,
     sharply, to feel, handle, to censure, value, estimate, fr.
     tangere, tactum, to touch. See Tangent, and cf. Task,
     Taste.]
     1. A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed
        by authority. Specifically:
        (a) A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for
            the support of a government.
  
                  A farmer of taxes is, of all creditors,
                  proverbially the most rapacious.  --Macaulay.
        (b) Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon
            polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a
            window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.
  
     Note: Taxes are annual or perpetual, direct or
           indirect, etc.
        (c) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society
            to defray its expenses.
  
     2. A task exacted from one who is under control; a
        contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed
        upon a subject.
  
     3. A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy
        tax on time or health.
  
     4. Charge; censure. [Obs.] --Clarendon.
  
     5. A lesson to be learned; a task. [Obs.] --Johnson.
  
     Tax cart, a spring cart subject to a low tax. [Eng.]
  
     Syn: Impost; tribute; contribution; duty; toll; rate;
          assessment; exaction; custom; demand.

  indirect
       adj 1: having intervening factors or persons or influences;
              "reflection from the ceiling provided a soft indirect
              light"; "indirect evidence"; "an indirect cause"
       2: not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight
          line or course to a destination; "sometimes taking an
          indirect path saves time"; "must take an indirect couse in
          sailing" [ant: direct]
       3: descended from a common ancestor but through different
          lines; "cousins are collateral relatives"; "an indirect
          descendant of the Stuarts" [syn: collateral] [ant: lineal]
       4: 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" [ant: direct]
       5: not as a direct effect or consequence; "indirect benefits";
          "an indirect advantage"

  indirect
     Γαλλικά a.
     έμμεσος

  indirect
     French a.
     (l en indirect)
     Romanian a.
     (l en indirect)

  indirect
     a.
     1 Not direct
     2 # Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result
     3 # Not focused straight at the target or subject, but by more subtle
  means
     4 # Not involving the quickest, shortest, or most convenient path
     n.
     1 (lb en finance) An indirect cost.
     2 An indirect radiator
     vb.
     (lb en programming transitive) To access by means of indirection; to
  dereference.

  indirect
     French a.
     (l en indirect)
     Romanian a.
     (l en indirect)

  indirect
     French a.
     (l en indirect)

  indirect
     Ranska a.
     1 epäsuora
     2 välillinen

  indirect
     Engelska a.
     indirekt

  Indirect /ɪndaɪɹˈɛkt/
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  indirect //ˌɪndaɪˈɹɛkt// //ˌɪndəˈɹɛkt// //ˌɪndɪˈɹɛkt// 
  косвен, непряк
  not direct

  indirect /ɪndaɪɹˈɛkt/
  nepřímý

  indirect /ɪndaɪɹˈɛkt/ 
  anuniongyrchol 

  indirect /ɪndaɪɹˈɛkt/
  indirekt, mittelbar 
     Synonym: mediate
  
   see: indirect speech, oblique speech
  

  indirect //ˌɪndaɪˈɹɛkt// //ˌɪndəˈɹɛkt// //ˌɪndɪˈɹɛkt// 
  epäsuora, välillinen
  not direct

  indirect /ɪndaɪɹˈɛkt/
  neizravan, neizravne, neizravni, neupravan, posredan, zaobilazan

  indirect /ɪndaɪɹˈɛkt/
  1. nem egyenes
  2. közvetett

  indirect /ˌɪndəˈrekt/
  I.   1.  pośredni
   2.  okrężny
   3.  nie bezpośredni
  II.  indirect object /ˌɪndərekt ˈɒbʤəkt/  [gram]   dopełnienie dalsze

  indirect /ɪndaɪɹˈɛkt/ 
  indireto

  indirect /ɪndaɪɹˈɛkt/
  1. dolaşık, dolambaçlı, doğru olmayan, dolaylı
  2. hile türünden
  3. dolaylslyla olan
  4. doğrudan doğruya olmayan, araçlı. indirect cost dolaylı masraf. indirect damage dolaylı zarar. indirect discourse sözcünün söylediklerinin şahıs ve zaman değişimiyle nakli. indirect lighting dolaylı ışıklandırma. indirect object dolaylı tümleç, - e halindeki isim. indirect result dolaylı sonuç. indirect tax dolaylı vergi. indirectly  dolaylı olarak. indirectness  dolaylılık.

  indirect /ɛ̃diʁˈɛkt/
  dieeun, ameeun, a-dro

   (complément i.) indirect /ɛ̃diʁˈɛkt/
  ameeun (renadenn a.)

  indirect /ɛ̃diʁˈɛkt/
  ameeun

  indirect /ɛ̃.di.ʁɛkt/ 
  косвен

  indirect /ɛ̃.di.ʁɛkt/ 
  indirekt

  indirect /ɛ̃diʀɛkt/ 
  indirect

  indirect /ɛ̃.di.ʁɛkt/ 
  epäsuora

  indirect /ɛ̃.di.ʁɛkt/ 
  間接, 間接的

  indirect /ɛ̃.di.ʁɛkt/ 
  obliquus

  indirect /ɛ̃dirɛkt/
  indirect, zijdelings

  indirect /ɛ̃.di.ʁɛkt/ 
  indirecto

  indirect /ˈɪndˌirɛkt/ 
  косвен

  indirect /indirɛkt/
  1. indirekt
  2. mittelbar

  indirect /ˈɪndˌirɛkt/ 
  έμμεσος

  indirect /indirɛkt/
  indirect

  indirect /ˈɪndˌirɛkt/ 
  obliquus

  indirect /ˈɪndˌirɛkt/ 
  indirecto

  
/ˌɪndɝˈɛkt/

  
/ɛ̃diʁɛkt/

  142 Moby Thesaurus words for "indirect":
     O-shaped, aberrant, aberrative, accessory, accidental, additional,
     adscititious, adventitious, ambagious, amoral, ancillary, artful,
     backhand, backhanded, calculating, chiseling, circuitous, circular,
     circumambient, circumlocutional, circumlocutory, collateral,
     collusive, coming, conscienceless, contingent, corrupt, corrupted,
     covinous, crafty, criminal, crooked, cunning, dark, deceitful,
     deflectional, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative,
     deviatory, devious, digressive, discursive, dishonest,
     dishonorable, divagational, divergent, doubtful, dubious,
     duplicitous, errant, erratic, evasive, eventual, excursive, false,
     falsehearted, felonious, finagling, final, fishy, fraudulent,
     furtive, guileful, helical, ill-got, ill-gotten, immoral,
     incidental, insidious, labyrinthine, last, left-handed, mazy,
     meandering, not kosher, oblique, orbital, out-of-the-way,
     periphrastic, planetary, questionable, rambling, rotary, rotten,
     round, roundabout, roving, scheming, secondary, serpentine, shady,
     shameless, sharp, shifting, shifty, side, sidelong, sinister,
     sinistral, sinuous, slippery, snaky, sneaking, sneaky, spiral,
     stray, subordinate, subsidiary, surreptitious, suspicious,
     swerving, tortuous, treacherous, trickish, tricky, turning,
     twisted, twisting, two-faced, ultimate, unconscienced,
     unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded,
     undirected, unethical, unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous,
     unstraightforward, vagrant, veering, wandering, wily, winding,
     without remorse, without shame, zigzag
  
  

  a. 间接的,次要的,欺骗的;

     a. 间接的,次要的,欺骗的