direct application
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdirectandapplication
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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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application
noun
uk/ˌæp.lɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌæp.ləˈkeɪ.ʃən/
an official request for something, usually ...
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(Definition ofdirectandapplicationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofdirect application
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For those who structure their values in a way that echoes that of political elites, values can havedirectapplicationto political choices.
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Later, after the definition, it is mentioned that this is simply the same asdirectapplicationof the functor to the predicate.
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These pedagogic consequences, however, were not a matter ofdirectapplicationbut of indirect implication.
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But the mostdirectapplicationof this idea is perhaps observed in automatic lexicon extraction.
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A new kind of life has been secured through adirectapplicationof science.
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These philosophical perspectives havedirectapplicationto clinical phenomena from obsessive compulsive disorders to schizophrenia.
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Directapplicationof these results to the given planthost-parasitoid system is, however, premature, because cues used can differ even within a genus.
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The thirddirectapplicationof her ideas to economics comes in her discussion of probability.
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When the awaited conclusion comes, it is expressed in a way that leaves the reader still longing for somedirectapplication.
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We obtain these results bydirectapplicationof approximation algorithms.
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Directapplicationof these experimental results may not be proper because the mechanism of transport in the two cases is different.
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This is adirectapplicationof the realisability implementation of constructive logic.
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The proof is by adirectapplicationof the second set of rules.
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This survey is interesting because it had a specific anddirectapplicationand it anticipated the motivation and design of modern surveys.
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Directapplicationof the proposed method to multi-finger system or walking robot system is currently going on.
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We were interested in using a research methodology that hasdirectapplicationto clinical settings.
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The student's problems with memorisation were therefore aided by the use of analytical techniques indirectapplicationto the pieces that she was studying.
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Here is adirectapplicationof feature economy (though not identified as such) to a problem in feature analysis.
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