direct communication
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdirectandcommunication
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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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communication
noun
uk/kəˌmjuː.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/kəˌmjuː.nəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
the act of communicating ...
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(Definition ofdirectandcommunicationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There isdirectcommunicationbetween the patient and the physician who will perform the procedure.
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Students were in two classes, one receiving 12 hours ofdirectcommunicationstrategy training.
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The procedure adopted by the practice for communicating test results involveddirectcommunicationof screen-positive results only.
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It is a way ofdirectcommunicationbetween composer and audience without the intermediary state of notation and interpretation of the written score.
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They can listen and respond to the collective input of others, but there is nodirectcommunicationbetween participants.
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These forms, as well asdirectcommunicationfrom obstetricians and pediatricians, provided data on outcome.
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It reconfigures the cantata not simply as a chronicle of aristocratic life, but as a vehicle fordirectcommunicationsteeped in political reality.
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Some critics have argued that media treatments of opera effacedirectcommunicationbetween the performers and the audience.
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In our hybrid carbon 0 silicon environment, it consists of adirectcommunicationbetween human designers.
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The secure or balanced strategy is characterized bydirectcommunicationbetween the child and caregiver, both of whom negotiate plans for protection.
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Nevertheless, using the mobile is perceived as being quite close todirectcommunication. 24.
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The primary domain of child/parent disagreement was in level of involvement indirectcommunicationbetween the child and physician.
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None of the communications logged involveddirectcommunicationwith another health professional.
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The channel name must be passed to another process to establish thedirectcommunication.
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They found that the process is so painful for many individuals thatdirectcommunicationabout it was avoided for as long as possible.
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Inasmuch as this ' truth ' cannot be objectified, it cannot be a ' public ' anddirectcommunication.
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In this study, the lower survivability of frozen-thawed minke whale oocytes could be due to the loss ofdirectcommunicationwith cumulus cells.
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Directcommunicationrepresents a stream of messages either between the design system and the user or between design system modules.
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Usually both sources of information are employed, with generalizations typically providing default assumptions when only incomplete information is available fromdirectcommunication.
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