direct link

collocation in English

meaningsofdirectandlink

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direct
adjective
uk
/daɪˈrekt/
us
/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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link
noun[C]
uk
/lɪŋk/
us
/lɪŋk/
a connection between two people, things, ...
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(Definition ofdirectandlinkfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdirect link

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On the other hand, the conceptualizer does not have adirectlinkto the lexicon and cannot, therefore, directly map pragmatic force onto lexical items.
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However, conceptually, thedirectlinkhere would appear to be between borrowing patterns and metalinguistic awareness, as reflected in this particular academic language activity.
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It also provides adirectlinkto the authors, who are eminently qualified to provide this overview.
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There is, however, no detailed evidence for adirectlink.
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In many cases, adirectlinkexists from a material source of funding to policymakers in a given network.
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Because of theirdirectlinkto the production level, the producer-handler has the potential to provide insight into value-added activities in the organic sector.
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This created adirectlinkbetween the foundation and the community and also between the foundation and 'outsiders'.
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These handlers, because of theirdirectlinkto the production level, have the potential to shed light on valueadded activities in the organic sector.
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Thus writing was viewed as denying adirectlinkwith its original.
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Thus, the effects of composition dynamics on poverty can be considered as being induced by thedirectlinkbetween growth and inequality.
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Adirectlinkwas drawn between these elements in the form of new legal responses to aliens, naturalization processes, and domestic dissent.
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Research on thedirectlinkbetween pension funds growth and economic growth, however, is quite scarce.
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This definition supposes adirectlinkbetween burial ritual and social structure.
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There was adirectlinkbetween these ideas about the duties of women and policies about the organization of work.
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Curiously, the attempt to assert such adirectlinkbetween the prose and the operas results in the least satisfactory sections of the book.
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In other words, left-right ideology could provide a cross-cutting basis of party competition that has nodirectlinkto constitutional and religious polarization.
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This constitutes the present value formulation, which represents adirectlinkbetween prices and dividend payments.
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Those results are not interpreted here since they have nodirectlinkwith the focus of this article.
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He points out that there is adirectlinkbetween how a party governs the country and how it raises money to finance elections.
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