obliqueness
倾斜度,倾斜性,偏斜度,斜度
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Definitions
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- : neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping.
- : not having the axis perpendicular to the plane of the base.
- : diverging from a given straight line or course.
- : not straight or direct, as a course.
- : indirectly stated or expressed; not straightforward: oblique remarks about the candidate's honesty.
- : indirectly aimed at or reached, as ends or results; deviously achieved.
- : morally, ethically, or mentally wrong; underhand; perverse.
- : Typography. slanting toward the right, as a form of sans-serif, gothic, or square-serif type.
- : Rhetoric. indirect.
- : Anatomy. pertaining to muscles running obliquely in the body as opposed to those running transversely or longitudinally.
- : Botany. having unequal sides, as a leaf.
- : Grammar. noting or pertaining to any case of noun inflection except nominative and vocative: Latin genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative cases are said to be oblique.
- : Drafting. designating a method of projection in which a three-dimensional object is represented by a drawing in which the face, usually parallel to the picture plane, is represented in accurate or exact proportion, and all other faces are shown at any convenient angle other than 90°.Compare axonometric, cabinet, isometric.
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- : Military. at an angle of 45°.
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o·bliqued, o·bliqu·ing.
- : Military. to change direction obliquely.
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- : something that is oblique.
- : Grammar. an oblique case.
- : Anatomy. any of several oblique muscles, especially in the walls of the abdomen.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
To target your obliques—the muscles on the sides of your stomach—slide your knee into your chest diagonally.
The wait for assistance for a taxed bullpen, meanwhile, ended when Wander Suero was reinstated from the injured list following a left oblique strain.
Likewise, while it seems imbedded with symbolism that is keyed to deeply personal associations from its creators – much like the work of David Lynch – those symbols are at once too ordinary and too oblique to make us care.
Satellites can only peer down on smoke plumes from above or from oblique angles, and their payload is limited to lighter instruments.
That said, the season seven writers never quite figured out how to hit the oblique angles in their relationship the way Sherman-Palladino did — the insults inside the compliments, the declarations of love inside the insults.
The definition of “innuendo,” according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is “an oblique allusion.”
The Playlist, on the other hand, called it “too oblique, too delighted with itself, and frankly, too dull to admire…much.”
An oblique view of baseball full of hijinks, havoc, and humor, this is fandom to the extreme.
The historical event, however, serves as an oblique background for the novel.
The columns are frequently laced with oblique references to her family.
Even the hardy Mohammedan was haggard and spent, and his oblique eyes glowed like the red embers of a dying fire.
Even the light eyes seemed to have grown slightly oblique; the voice, the unimpassioned greeting, were those of a son of Cathay.
Testa minuta oblique conica tenuis pellucida linea albida opaca et fasciis coccineis ornata, anfractibus valde convexis.
Like the beams of the winter sun which have little warmth in them, the line of our vision is somewhat oblique.
In the Ordish system a certain number of intermediate points in the span are supported by oblique chains, on which girders rest.