Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Oblique   /əblˈik/   Listen
Oblique

adjective
(Written also oblike)
1.
Slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled.  "Acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles" , "The axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base"
2.
Indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading.  Synonym: devious.  "Gave oblique answers to direct questions" , "Oblique political maneuvers"
noun
1.
Any grammatical case other than the nominative.  Synonym: oblique case.
2.
A diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso.  Synonyms: abdominal external oblique muscle, external oblique muscle, musculus obliquus externus abdominis.



Related searches:



WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Oblique" Quotes from Famous Books



... river, about half a mile from the starting point. Here the current was extremely strong, and this broke the whirling eddy, and gave the raft some stability. John and Wilson seized their oars again, and managed to push it in an oblique direction. This brought them nearer to the left shore. They were not more than fifty fathoms from it, when Wilson's oar snapped short off, and the raft, no longer supported, was dragged away. John ...
— In Search of the Castaways • Jules Verne

... knots in the hour. The sea got up as they receded from the land, and everything indicated a gale, though one of no great violence. Night was approaching, and an Alpine-like range of icebergs was glowing, to the northward, under the oblique rays of the setting sun. For a considerable space around the vessels, the water was clear, not even a cake of any sort being to be seen; and the question arose in Daggett's mind, whether he ought to stand on, or to heave-to and ...
— The Sea Lions - The Lost Sealers • James Fenimore Cooper

... perpendicularly; and the other, horizontally: the work of the two saws being terminated, the pannel was found to be reduced to the thickness of 4-1/2 lines. The artist then made use of a plane of a convex form on its breadth: with this instrument he planed the pannel in an oblique direction, in order to take off very short shavings, and to avoid the grain of the wood: by these means he reduced the pannel to 2/3 of a line in thickness. He then took a flat plane with a toothed iron, whose effect is much like that of a ...
— Paris As It Was and As It Is • Francis W. Blagdon

... fretted past endurance by the situation, Judith permitted herself some oblique hints and suggestions, on the heels of which she left to prepare his breakfast. Returning to the sick-room with the bowl of broth, she met the strange, unexpected, unsolicited reply to all these withheld demands. Creed greeted her ...
— Judith of the Cumberlands • Alice MacGowan

... remained under the covert of mighty willows that dipped their leaves into the wave. Looking through the green interstices of the foliage, he saw at the far end of the lawn, on a curving bank by which the glittering tide shot oblique, a simple arbour—an arbour like that from which he had looked upon summer stars five years ago—not so densely covered with the honeysuckle; still the honeysuckle, recently trained there, was fast creeping up the sides; and through the trellis of the woodwork and the leaves of the flowering shrub, ...
— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton


More quotes...



Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org