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What's The Definition Of Oblique?
[n] any grammatical case other than the nominative
[adj] indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading; "used devious means to achieve success"; "gave oblique answers to direct questions"; "oblique political maneuvers" [adj] slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angular; "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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Oblique: bias | catacorner | cata-cornered | catercorner | cater-cornered | catty-corner | catty-cornered | crabwise | devious | diagonal | indirect | kitty-corner | kitty-cornered | nonparallel | oblique case | sideways Related Terms | Find terms related to Oblique: across | ambagious | angle | angle off | angling | askew | aslant | athwart | atilt | awry | backhand | backhanded | banked | banking | bear off | bend | bias | cambered | canted | canting | circuitous | circular | circumlocutional | circumlocutory | clandestine | collateral | crook | crooked | cross | crossway | crossways | crosswise | deceitful | deceptive | deflect | deflectional | deviant | deviate | deviating | deviative | devious | diagonal | digressive | discursive | divagate | divagational | diverge | divergent | diverging | evasive | excursive | false | furtive | helical | implied | inclined | inclining | indirect | leaning | left-handed | meandering | oblique angle | oblique figure | oblique line | offhand | orbital | O-shaped | out-of-the-way | overthwart | periphrastic | pitched | pitching | rhomboid | rotary | round | roundabout | scratch comma | separatrix | sheer | side | sidelong | sinister | sinistral | skew | slant | slanted | slanting | slash | sloped | sloping | slue | sly | solidus | spiral | surreptitious | sway | swerve | thwart | tilted | tilting | tipped | transversal | transverse | traverse | turn | twist | underhanded | veer | virgule See Also | ablative | ablative case | accusative | accusative case | case | convergent | dative | dative case | divergent | diverging | genitive | genitive case | grammatical case | inclined | objective case | possessive case | vocative | vocative case Oblique In Webster's Dictionary \Ob*lique"\, a. [F., fr. L. obliquus; ob (see {Ob-}) +
liquis oblique; cf. licinus bent upward, Gr ? slanting.]
[Written also {oblike}.]
1. Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at
right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined.
It has a direction oblique to that of the former
motion. --Cheyne.
2. Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence,
disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister.
The love we bear our friends . . . Hath in it
certain oblique ends. --Drayton.
This mode of oblique research, when a more direct
one is denied, we find to be the only one in our
power. --De Quincey.
Then would be closed the restless, oblique eye. That
looks for evil, like a treacherous spy. --Wordworth.
3. Not direct in descent; not following the line of father
and son; collateral.
His natural affection in a direct line was strong,
in an oblique but weak. --Baker.
{Oblique angle}, {Oblique ascension}, etc. See under
{Angle},{Ascension}, etc.
{Oblique arch} (Arch.), an arch whose jambs are not at right
angles with the face, and whose intrados is in consequence
askew.
{Oblique bridge}, a skew bridge. See under {Bridge}, n.
{Oblique case} (Gram.), any case except the nominative. See
{Case}, n.
{Oblique circle} (Projection), a circle whose plane is
oblique to the axis of the primitive plane.
{Oblique fire} (Mil.), a fire the direction of which is not
perpendicular to the line fired at.
{Oblique flank} (Fort.), that part of the curtain whence the
fire of the opposite bastion may be discovered. --Wilhelm.
{Oblique leaf}. (Bot.)
(a) A leaf twisted or inclined from the normal position.
(b) A leaf having one half different from the other.
{Oblique line} (Geom.), a line that, meeting or tending to
meet another, makes oblique angles with it.
{Oblique motion} (Mus.), a kind of motion or progression in
which one part ascends or descends, while the other
prolongs or repeats the same tone, as in the accompanying
example.
{Oblique muscle} (Anat.), a muscle acting in a direction
oblique to the mesial plane of the body, or to the
associated muscles; -- applied especially to two muscles
of the eyeball.
{Oblique narration}. See {Oblique speech}.
{Oblique planes} (Dialing), planes which decline from the
zenith, or incline toward the horizon.
{Oblique sailing} (Naut.), the movement of a ship when she
sails upon some rhumb between the four cardinal points,
making an oblique angle with the meridian.
{Oblique speech} (Rhet.), speech which is quoted indirectly,
or in a different person from that employed by the
original speaker.
{Oblique sphere} (Astron. & Geog.), the celestial or
terrestrial sphere when its axis is oblique to the horizon
of the place; or as it appears to an observer at any point
on the earth except the poles and the equator.
{Oblique step} (Mil.), a step in marching, by which the
soldier, while advancing, gradually takes ground to the
right or left at an angle of about 25[deg]. It is not now
practiced. --Wilhelm.
{Oblique system of co["o]rdinates} (Anal. Geom.), a system in
which the co["o]rdinate axes are oblique to each other.
\Ob*lique"\, n. (Geom.) An oblique line. \Ob*lique"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Obliqued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Obliquing}.] 1. To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction. Projecting his person towards it in a line which obliqued from the bottom of his spine. --Sir. W. Scott. 2. (Mil.) 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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