direct reference
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdirectandreference
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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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reference
noun
uk/ˈref.ər.əns/us/ˈref.ɚ.əns/
a mention ...
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(Definition ofdirectandreferencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofdirect reference
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For the justification of standards does not make essential anddirectreferenceto the beings themselves.
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For instance, satisfaction with health was the only item with adirectreferenceto personal states and properties.
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The distinction betweendirectreference, as given by environmental sounds, and indirect reference, provided by what he calls musical sounds, is particularly illuminating.
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The selected concepts store thedirectreferenceto the corresponding concept instances in the application ontology.
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Thus, for example, if thedirectreferenceview of names is correct, ordinary names should be assigned their bearers as their contents.
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Moreover, apart from the odddirectreference, decorum in particular is difficult to isolate in the period's architectural treatises.
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Toolkit objects are normally used in programs bydirectreferenceand, sometimes, by composition.
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However, for the most part this theatrical self-reflexivity is signified through the structure and style of the shows, rather than bydirectreference.
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The spoken text was used as sound source and as adirectreferenceto the cultural subjugation.
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I also coded whether a witness was testifying about a particular event or about the broader problem area withoutdirectreferenceto a particular event.
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Magneticsusceptibility and natural gamma-radiation data were collected withdirectreferenceto these graphic logs.
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The former is based on reuse bydirectreferenceand composition.
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Nodirectreferenceis made in the published accounts of the annual meetings to any of these disturbances.
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It is possible to devise means of scrutinising social issues to do with older age - indeed with all ages - withoutdirectreferenceto the suffocating birthday.
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I do not find 'directreference' accounts of belief attractive : they seem to me to involve too much explaining away of robust intuitions about the truthvalues of certain belief-ascribing statements.
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Directreference: from language to thought.
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Nouvel's projects of the time carried strong narrative elements, albeit always withdirectreferenceto architecture.
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