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| oblique |
| 1. adj. Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined. |
| 2. adj. Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister. |
| 3. adj. Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral. |
| 4. adj. (botany) Of leaves, having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other. |
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| 5. adj. (botany) Of branches or roots, growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal. |
| 6. adj. (grammar) Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative). |
| 7. adj. (grammar) Of speech or narration, 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, ad |
| 8. adj. (music) Employing oblique motion, motion or progression in which one part (voice) stays on the same note while another ascends or descends. |
| 9. n. (geometry) An oblique line. |
| 10. n. (typography) synonym of, slash, ⟨/⟩. |
| 11. n. (grammar) The oblique case. |
| 12. v. (intransitive) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction. |
| 13. v. (military) 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. |
| 14. v. (transitive, computing) To slant (text, etc.) at an angle. |
