different between indirect vs circumbendibus

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

English

Etymology

• From Latin circum (“round about”) (compare English circum-) + English bend + Latin -ibus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?km??b?nd?b?s/

Adjective

circumbendibus (comparative more circumbendibus, superlative most circumbendibus)

1. (often humorous) indirect or roundabout
   • 1918 Sidney Watson, In the Twinkling of an Eye, Bible institute of Los Angeles, p66

     “We’re all circumbendibus, / Wherever we may be, / We’re all circumbendibus, / On land or on sea. / Rich or poor or middling, / Wherever we are found, / We’re all circumbendibus, / We’re all going round.”

   • 1987 Syed Tassadque Hussain, Reflections on Kashmir politics,Rima Pub. House, p59

     The only irresistible inference that can be deduced from a bare perusal of this judgment is that it is circumbendibus in its tenor vague and conjectural in its logic and in fine it is a remarkable piece of a political document.

Translations

Noun

circumbendibus (plural circumbendibuses or circumbendibi)

1. (often humorous) A roundabout route or process
   • 1899 Herbert Spencer, Social Statics; Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed, D. Appleton and company, p383

     If, as Coleridge says, “a knave is a fool with a circumbendibus,” then by instructing the knave you do but make the circumbendibus a wider one.

   • 1907 Albert Temple Swing, James Harris Fairchild; Or Sixty-Eight Years with a Christian College, F. H. Revell company, p155

     After he had moved into the house and repaired it Mrs. Mary L. Bacon remembers standing with him one day and looking over the winding flag stones leading up to his front door. “And what is this,” he said, “a circumbendibus?”

   • 1968 George William Erskine Russell, Afterthoughts, Ayer Publishing, p152

     Before tea-time my circumbendibus brought me to the hospitable residence of Tommy’s chief supporter, whom we will call Mr Goodhart.

2. (often humorous) A roundabout, indirect, or confusing manner of speech or writing

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