Direct and Relay

Direct

Direct verb - To cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway.

Relay and direct are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Relay" instead a verb "Direct".

Relay

Relay verb - Pass along.
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Synonyms for Relay

Direct and relay are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Direct" instead a verb "Relay".

Nearby Words: relayed, relaying

Common collocations

power direct power relay power
story direct story relay story

Both words in one sentence

  • Vladimir Vasilyev's novel The Black Relay Race, while not a direct sequel to his Death Or Glory novel, takes place in the same 'verse.
  • Picard then tops this by taking command of the fleet and ordering them to concentrate their fire on a single, non-vital spot, which opens up its secondary power relay to a direct assault from the Enterprise's quantum torpedoes.
  • Extreme Graphical Representation That said, the most popular options to program these things are in a sense extreme graphical representations, with function block diagram(essentially looks like a flowchart), and ladder logic(which is a direct substitute for logical circuit diagrams used with relay logic) being standard.
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