Oblique
[ə'bliːk] or [ə'blik]
Definition
(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' .
Editor: Pratt--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Inclined, aslant.[2]. Indirect.
Edited by Donnie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Divergent, diagonal, lateral, angular
ANT:straight, rectilineal, forward
Typist: Yvette
Definition
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.
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Examples
- After numerous experiments, in which the dimensions of the screw were successively diminished, the propeller was at length reduced to two oblique blades. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The screw projected at the stern, and being turned rapidly round by the steam engine, the oblique action of the thread of the screw against the water impelled the vessel forward. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The difference was owing to the screw slipping in the water, because the fluid yielded to the oblique action of the blades. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The oblique band of sunlight which followed her through the door became the young wife well. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Each of these parts was then sub divided into ten seconds, which were indicated by dots arranged in tran sverse oblique lines on the width of brass. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- By this oblique motion, the island is conveyed to different parts of the monarch's dominions. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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