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| oblique | |
| 1. agg. obliquo | |
| It has a direction oblique to that of the former motion (Cheyne) | |
| 2. agg. indiretto | |
| 3. agg. oscuro | |
| 4. agg. perverso | |
| 5. agg. sinistro | |
| 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) | |
| His natural affection in a direct line was strong, in an oblique but weak (Baker) | |
| 6. agg. (botanica) foglie aventi la base asimmetrica, con un lato più lungo/largo dell' altro | |
| 7. sost. (geometria) una linea obliqua | |
| 8. sost. (raro) il segno "/" | |
| 9. verb. deviare da una linea perpendicolare | |
| 10. verb. muoversi in direzione obliqua | |
| Projecting his person towards it in a line which obliqued from the bottom of his spine. (Sir. W. Scott) | |
| 11. verb. (militare) marciare in direzione obliqua alla linea del plotone | |
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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. subst. (geometry) An oblique line. | |
| 10. subst. (typography) synonym of, slash, ⟨/⟩. | |
| 11. subst. (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. | |
