different between winding vs indirect

English

Etymology 1

From wind +? -ing, from wind (“to wrap”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wa?nd??/

Verb

winding

1. present participle of wind

Noun

winding (countable and uncountable, plural windings)

1. Something wound around something else.
2. The manner in which something is wound.
3. One complete turn of something wound.
   • 1966, Cynthia Ozick, Trust, New York: The New American Library, Part One, Chapter 7, p. 44,^[1]

     […] my mother’s pale arms emerged from the windings of her sheets and flailed in the air […]

4. (especially in the plural) Curving or bending movement, twists and turns.
   • 1610, John Healey, The City of God by Augustine of Hippo, London: George Eld, Book 13, p. 680,^[2]

     The Labyrinth] A building so entangled in windings and cyrcles, that it deceiueth all that come in it.

   • 1706, William Congreve, The Double Dealer, London: Jacob Tonson, Act I, Scene 1, p. 9,^[3]

     […] in vain I do disguise me from thee, thou know’st me, know’st the very inmost Windings and Recesses of my Soul.

   • 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Penguin, 2018, Chapter 2, p. 88,^[4]

     The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain.

   • 1849, Charlotte Brontë, letter cited in Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, 1857, Volume 2, Chapter ,^[5]

     Eugene Forcarde, the reviewer in question, follows Currer Bell through every winding, discerns every point, discriminates every shade, proves himself master of the subject, and lord of the aim.
5. (electrical) A length of wire wound around the core of an electrical transformer.
6. (music, lutherie, bowmaking) Lapping.

Translations

Adjective

winding (comparative more winding, superlative most winding)

1. Twisting, turning or sinuous.
2. Spiral or helical.

Translations

Etymology 2

From wind +? -ing, from wind (“movement of air”), as the wind was used to assist turning.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?nd??/

Verb

winding

1. present participle of wind

Noun

winding (countable and uncountable, plural windings)

1. The act or process of winding (turning a boat etc. around).

Derived terms

• winding hole

Anagrams

• dwining

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