Oblique

[ə'bliːk] or [ə'blik]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) any grammatical case other than the nominative.

(adj.) slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; 'the oblique rays of the winter sun'; 'acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles'; 'the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base' .

校對:普拉特--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined.

(a.) Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister.

(a.) Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.

(n.) An oblique line.

(v. i.) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction.

(v. i.) 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.

博比編輯

同義詞及近義詞：

a. [1]. Inclined, aslant.[2]. Indirect.

唐尼手打

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Divergent, diagonal, lateral, angular

ANT:straight, rectilineal, forward

校對:伊薇特

解釋/意思:

adj. slanting: not perpendicular: not parallel: not straightforward: obscure: (geom.) not a right-angle: (gram.) denoting any case except the nominative.—v.i. to deviate from a direct line or from the perpendicular to slant: to advance obliquely by facing half right or left and then advancing.—ns. Obliquā′tion Oblique′ness Obliq′uity state of being oblique: a slanting direction: error or wrong: irregularity.—adv. Oblique′ly.—adj. Obliq′uid (Spens.) oblique.—Oblique cone or cylinder one whose axis is oblique to the plane of its base; Oblique narration or speech (L. oratio obliqua) indirect narration 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 adverbs of present time into the corresponding adverbs of past time &c.; Oblique sailing the reduction of the position of a ship from the various courses made good oblique to the meridian or parallel of latitude; Obliquity of the ecliptic the angle between the plane of the earth's orbit and that of the earth's equator.

整理:康拉德