indirect vs past

indirect

noun
  • An indirect cost. 

  • An indirect radiator 

verb
  • To access by means of indirection; to dereference. 

adj
  • Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result 

  • Not focused straight at the target or subject, but by more subtle means 

  • Not involving the quickest, shortest, or most convenient path 

past

noun
  • The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future. 

  • The past tense. 

prep
  • Beyond in place or quantity 

  • Any number of minutes after the last hour 

  • Having recovered or moved on from (a traumatic experience, etc.). 

  • No longer capable of. 

  • Passing by, especially without stopping or being delayed. 

adj
  • Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous. 

  • Having already happened; in the past; finished. 

  • Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago. 

  • Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state. 

adv
  • In a direction that passes. 

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