different between indirect vs serpentine

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 1

Borrowed from Old French serpentin, from Latin serpent?nus, from serp?ns (“serpent”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s??p?nta?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s??p?nta?n/
• Rhymes: -??(r)p?nta?n

Adjective

serpentine (comparative more serpentine, superlative most serpentine)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes.
2. Of, or having attributes associated with, the serpent referred to in the book of Genesis in the Bible, such as craftiness or deceitfulness.

3. Having the form or shape of a snake.

   Synonym: ophidian

4. Curving in alternate directions; sinuous.

   Synonyms: sinuous, tortuous, winding

Translations

Noun

serpentine (plural serpentines)

1. Any of several plants believed to cure snakebites.
2. (historical) An early form of cannon, used in the 16th century.
3. A kind of firework.
4. A coiled distillation tube.
5. (mathematics) Any of several related cubic curves; anguinea

Translations

Verb

serpentine (third-person singular simple present serpentines, present participle serpentining, simple past and past participle serpentined)

1. (archaic) To serpentize; to turn or bend; to meander.
   • 1813, George Nicholson, The Cambrian Traveller's Guidey

     There were two little lakes, or rather large pools which stood in the bottom, whence issued a rivulet which serpentined in view for two or three miles, offering a pleasing relief to the eye.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French serpentine, from resemblance to a serpent's skin.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s??p?nta?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s??p?ntin/, /?s??p?nta?n/
• Rhymes: -??(r)p?nta?n

Noun

serpentine (countable and uncountable, plural serpentines)

1. (mineralogy) Any of several green/brown minerals consisting of a magnesium and iron silicates that have similar layered crystal structure.
2. (geology) An outcrop or region with soil and rock dominated by these minerals.

Hyponyms

• (mineral): antigorite, chrysotile, lizardite

Translations

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Serpentine”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “serpentine”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.

Anagrams

• terpinenes

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

serpentine

1. feminine singular of serpentin

Italian

Adjective

serpentine

1. feminine plural of serpentino

Noun

serpentine f pl

1. plural of serpentina

Latin

Adjective

serpent?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of serpent?nus