indirect (iou) and transferases (medicine)

indirect (iou)

indirect adjective. LME.
[Old & mod. French, or medieval Latin indirectus, formed as IN-3 + DIRECT adjective.]
Grammar.
a. Not in full grammatical concord. Only in LME.
b. Of speech or narration: put in a reported form, not in the speaker's own words; oblique. M19.
Of a route, path, etc.: not straight, crooked, devious. Also, of a movement: oblique. L15.
b. Of an action or feeling: not straightforward and honest; not open; deceitful, corrupt. Now rare or obsolete. M16.
c. Of a succession, title, etc.: not derived by direct descent. L16.
Not taking the shortest course to the desired objective; not going straight to the point; not acting or exercised with direct force; roundabout. L16.
b. Logic. Of a proof, method, etc.: proceeding by consideration of the proposition contradictory to that in question. M17.
c. Of taxation: levied on goods and Services (and hence paid by the consumer in the form of increased prices) rather than on income or profits. E19.
d. Of a scientific technique, process, etc.: involving intermediate stages, not effecting a simple conversion. M19.
Not directly aimed at or attained; not immediately resulting from an action or cause. E19.
B. Jowett Happiness is not the direct aim, but the indirect consequence of the good government.
Of or pertaining to work and expenses which cannot be apportioned to any particular job or undertaking; pertaining to overhead charges or subsidiary work. E20.
Special collocations: indirect address Computing: specifying the location of information about the address of the operand, rather than the location of the operand itself. indirect aggression aggression against another nation by Other than military means. indirect evidence = CIRCUMSTANTIAL evidence. indirect fire gunfire aimed at a target which cannot be seen. indirect lighting: that makes use of light diffused by reflection from the ceiling, walls, or Other surface(s). indirect object Grammar: denoting a person or thing affected by a verbal action but not primarily acted on (e.g. him in give him the book). indirect passive Grammar: having for its subject the indirect or prepositional object of the active (e.g. he in he was given the book, he was laughed at). indirect question Grammar a question in indirect speech (e.g. they asked who I was). indirect rule a system of government in which the governed people retain certain administrative and legal etc. powers.
indirectness noun E17.

transferases (medicine)

transferases
<enzyme> Transferases are enzymes transferring a group, for example, the methyl group or a glycosyl group, from one compound (generally regarded as donor) to another compound (generally regarded as acceptor). The classification is based on the scheme "donor:acceptor group transferase".

Registry number: EC 2.

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