different between asunder vs indirect

English

Alternative forms

• asundre (obsolete)

Etymology

Originally two words; from Old English on (“a (preposition)”) sundran (“separate position”), from Proto-Germanic *sunder, *sundraz. Cognate with Danish sønder, Swedish sönder, Dutch zonder, German sonder, Icelandic sundur, Faroese sundur and Norwegian sunder/sønder; akin to Gothic ???????????????????????? (sundr?).

Pronunciation

• (UK, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??s?nd?/
• (US, General American) enPR: ?-s?n?d?r, IPA^(key): /??s?nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
• Hyphenation: asun?der

Adverb

asunder (comparative more asunder, superlative most asunder)

1. (archaic, literary) Into separate parts or pieces.

   Synonyms: apart, in twain

   Lest anyone find her treasure, she tore the map asunder and cast its pieces into the wind.

   • c. 1600,, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III, Scene 1,^[1]

     Page. I warrant you, he’s the man should fight with him.

     Robert Shallow. […] It appears so by his weapons. Keep them asunder:

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Psalm 2.3,^[2]

     Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

   • 1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Volume 1, Part 1, Chapter 3, p. 57,^[3]

     He desired I would stand like a Colossus, with my Legs as far asunder as I conveniently could.

   • 1985, Kate Bush, Running Up That Hill

     You don't want to hurt me, but see how deep the bullet lies. Unaware that I'm tearing you asunder. There is thunder in our hearts.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:asunder

Derived terms

• put asunder

Translations

Anagrams

• Urendas, asundre, dauners, enduras, unreads

English

Etymology

From Middle French indirect, from Late Latin indirectus

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??nda????kt/, /??nd????kt/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /??nd????kt/, /??nda????kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Adjective

indirect (comparative more indirect, superlative most indirect)

1. Not direct
   1. Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result

   2. Not focused straight at the target or subject, but by more subtle means
   3. Not involving the quickest, shortest, or most convenient path

Antonyms

• direct

Derived terms

Related terms

• indirection

Translations

Noun

indirect (plural indirects)

1. (finance) An indirect cost.
   • 2010, Anna M. Gil-Lafuente and José M. Merigó (editos), Computational Intelligence in Business and Economics

     Gradually analytical thinking was taking a greater awareness of the importance it took for all the investigation system of the possible identification or traceability of fixed costs and, in general, of the indirects of other times.

2. An indirect radiator
   • 1902, William S. Monroe, Steam Heating and Ventilation Chapter 4

     Indirect radiators are seldom installed except for rooms on the first or second floors; and in the former case the duct, D, is very short, and in the latter it is usually from 12 to 16 feet long. It should be stated in this connection that indirects of large size should be spread out as much as possible so as to give a large area against the current of air.

Verb

indirect (third-person singular simple present indirects, present participle indirecting, simple past and past participle indirected)

1. (programming, transitive) To access by means of indirection; to dereference.
   • 1997, Cay S. Horstmann, Practical Object-Oriented Development in C++ and Java (page 385)

     The X operations access the data fields by indirecting through the _rep pointer.

   • 2012, Geerd-R. Hoffmann, Dimitris K. Maretis, The Dawn of Massively Parallel Processing in Meteorology

     These correspond to an indirected parallel write and an indirected parallel read operation respectively.

Anagrams

• indicter, reindict

French

Etymology

From in- +? direct.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.di.??kt/

Adjective

indirect (feminine singular indirecte, masculine plural indirects, feminine plural indirectes)

1. indirect

Derived terms

• discours indirect
• mesure indirecte
• objet indirect

Further reading

• “indirect” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French indirect, from Latin indirectus.

Adjective

indirect m or n (feminine singular indirect?, masculine plural indirec?i, feminine and neuter plural indirecte)

1. indirect

Declension