by+indirect+reference

  • 111allusion — [[t]əlu͟ːʒ(ə)n[/t]] allusions N VAR: oft N to n An allusion is an indirect reference to someone or something. This last point was understood to be an allusion to the long standing hostility between the two leaders …

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  • 112innuendo — [[t]ɪ̱njue̱ndoʊ[/t]] innuendoes, innuendos (plural) N VAR Innuendo is indirect reference to something rude or unpleasant. The report was based on rumours, speculation, and innuendo. ...magazines which are full of sexual innuendo. Syn: insinuation …

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  • 113allusion —    An indirect reference to something or someone presumed to be familiar to the viewer, in order to increase the effect of an image. A citation. Also see appropriation, audience, meaning, metaphor, perception, and subject …

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  • 114allusively — ad. By implication, by indirect reference, by way of allusion, by insinuation, suggestion, or innuendo …

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  • 115squint — v 1. skew, look askance, look sidewise, glance obliquely, look out of the corner of one s eye; look out of half closed eyes, peer, peek, peep; blink, wink, nictitate. 2.Usu. squint toward or at refer to indirectly, allude to, infer, imply,… …

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  • 116allude — /əˈlud / (say uh loohd) phrase (alluded, alluding) allude to, 1. to make an allusion to, refer casually or indirectly to: he often alluded to his poverty. 2. to contain a casual or indirect reference to: the letter alludes to something now… …

  • 117squint — /skwɪnt / (say skwint) verb (i) 1. to look with the eyes partly closed. 2. to be affected with strabismus; be cross eyed. 3. to look or glance obliquely or sideways; look askance. –verb (t) 4. to close (the eyes) partly in looking. 5. to cause to …

  • 118confusable words — 1. Words are most often confused because they are alike in form (or spelling) and in some aspect of meaning, as with fortunate and fortuitous, or prevaricate and procrastinate. Some sets are confused simply in spelling, although the meanings and… …

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  • 119allusion — [n] indirect reference; hint casual remark, charge, citation, connotation, denotation, figure of speech, implication, imputation, incidental mention, indication, inference, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, mention, play on words, quotation,… …

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  • 120косвенная ссылка — Ссылка, значением которой является ссылка. [ГОСТ 28397 89] Тематики языки программирования EN indirect reference …

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