oblique
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle French oblique, from Latin oblīquus (also spelled oblīcus) (“slanting, sideways, indirect, envious”).
Inflected forms:
form: obliquer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: obliquest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: obliques
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: obliques
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: obliquing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: obliqued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: obliqued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Not erect or perpendicular; not parallel to, or at right angles from, the base.
pos: adj
examples: Italic fonts are sometimes described as oblique in typographic terminology.
when it has a Direction oblique to that of the former Motion, it is either added to, or subtracted from the former Motion
The roadside section of the tramway is limited to 12 m.p.h., except over the oblique road crossings, where speed is restricted to 4 m.p.h., with a compulsory stop immediately before.
gloss: Not straightforward; indirect; by implication; (sometimes even) obscure, ambiguous, or confusing.
pos: adj
examples: The email from HR obliquely informed her that some complaints about her had been received.
This mode of oblique research, where a more direct one is denied, we find to be the only one in our power.
gloss: Disingenuous; underhand; morally corrupt.
pos: adj
examples: For the love we bear our friends, / Tho nere so strongly grounded, / Hath in it certain oblique ends / If to the bottome sounded
Then would be closed the restless, oblique eye / That looks for evil, like a treacherous spy
gloss: Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
pos: adj
examples: His natural affection in a direct line was strong; in an oblique, but weak; for no man ever loved Children more, or a Brother less.
gloss: Having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other.
pos: adj
examples: Leaves long, lanceolate, tapering upward from the middle to an acute point, […] secondaries very oblique, distinct, alternate, parallel, curved in transversing the blade
gloss: Growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal.
pos: adj
examples: Oblique and sinker roots will normally be under a greater compression stress than lateral roots.
gloss: Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative).
pos: adj
gloss: Indirect; employing the actual words of the speaker but as related by a third person, having the first person in pronoun and verb converted into the third person and adverbs of present time into the past, etc.
pos: adj
examples: They found out obliquely that she had heard from HR about the comments and was taking some time to absorb the sting of an implied reprimand.
gloss: Employing oblique motion, motion or progression in which one part (voice) stays on the same note while another ascends or descends.
pos: adj
examples: In passing from the minor third to unison, the motion ought to be oblique, but from the major third to unison the motion ought to be similar
gloss: An oblique line.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
pos: noun
examples: Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.
Other Chaucerian manuscripts had the virgule (or virgil or oblique: /) at the middle of lines.
gloss: The oblique case.
pos: noun
gloss: The musculus obliquus externus abdominis or also obliquus internus abdominis.
pos: noun
gloss: To deviate from a perpendicular line; to become askew.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: he sat upon the edge of his chair […] and achieved a communication with his plate by projecting his person towards it in a line which obliqued from the bottom of his spine
gloss: To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
pos: verb
gloss: To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: slash
Derived words: deobliquing
double-oblique
nonoblique
oblique angle
oblique arch
oblique arytenoid
oblique ascension
oblique bridge
oblique case
oblique circle
oblique contour
oblique cord
oblique correction
oblique dash
oblique dendrite
oblique effect
oblique fabric
oblique fire
oblique flank
oblique foliation
oblique fracture
oblique head
oblique icebreaker
oblique illumination
oblique intent
oblique ligament
oblique line
obliquely
oblique motion
oblique muscle
oblique narration
obliqueness
oblique order
oblique plane
oblique projection
oblique pyramid
oblique reflection
oblique rhyme
oblique ridge
oblique sailing
oblique shock
oblique spaceship
oblique speech
oblique sphere
oblique stem
oblique step
oblique strain
Oblique Strategies
oblique subject
oblique-swimming triplefin
oblique system of coordinates
oblique tone
oblique type
oblique wing
obliquity
single-oblique
suboblique
triple-oblique
oblique stroke
oblique mark
stroke
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