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adj. Having a slanting or sloping direction, course, or position; inclined.

adj. Mathematics Designating geometric lines or planes that are neither parallel nor perpendicular.

adj. Botany Having sides of unequal length or form: an oblique leaf.

adj. Anatomy Situated in a slanting position; not transverse or longitudinal: oblique muscles or ligaments.

adj. Indirect or evasive: oblique political maneuvers.

adj. Devious, misleading, or dishonest: gave oblique answers to the questions.

adj. Not direct in descent; collateral.

adj. Grammar Designating any noun case except the nominative or the vocative.

n. An oblique thing, such as a line, direction, or muscle.

n. Nautical The act of changing course by less than 90°.

ad. At an angle of 45°.

adj. Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined.

adj. Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister.

adj. Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.

adj. Having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side larger or extending further than the other.

n. An oblique line.

n. The punctuation sign "/"

n. The oblique case.

v. To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction.

v. 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.

adj. Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined.

adj. Not straightforward; indirect; obscure

adj. Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.

n. An oblique line.

verb-intransitive. To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction.

verb-intransitive. 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.

Of lines or planes, making with a given line, surface, or direction an angle that is less than 90°; neither perpendicular nor parallel; of angles, either acute or obtuse, not right; in general, not direct; aslant; slanting. See cuts under angle.

Indirect, in a figurative sense: as, an oblique reproach or taunt.

Questionable from a moral point of view; not upright or morally direct; evil.

In botany, unequal-sided.

n. In anatomy, an oblique muscle: as, the external oblique of the abdomen. See obliquus.

To deviate from a direct line or from the perpendicular; slant; slope.

To advance slantingly or obliquely; specifically (military), to advance obliquely by making a half-face to the right or left and marching in the new direction.

n. In geometry, except the perpendicular, any sect from a point to a straight or a plane.

n. any grammatical case other than the nominative

adj. indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading

n. a diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso

adj. slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled

"Anytime you see a sign like that, you see this fracture, what we call an oblique fracture so it kind of spirals up, we know that he had some unbelievable force at his ankle that transmitted up through his fibula and fractured it."

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obliqued    obliques    obliquing   

abdominal    abdominal muscle    ab   

oblique line of the lower jaw    oblique angle    oblique rhythm    oblique pianoforte    oblique ligament    oblique circle    oblique descension    oblique line of the tibia    oblique inguinal hernia    oblique line of the clavicle   

obliqued    obliquing   

slanting    inclined    indirect    obscure    collateral    unfair   

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transverse    horizontal    diagonal    upward    perpendicular    indirect    divergent    frontal    tentative    covert