Word Meanings - OBLIQUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

oblique; cf. licinus bent upward, Gr 1. Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined. It has a direction oblique to that of the former motion. Cheyne. 2. Not straightforward; indirect;

Additional info about word: OBLIQUE

oblique; cf. licinus bent upward, Gr 1. Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined. It has a direction oblique to that of the former motion. Cheyne. 2. Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister. 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. 3. Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral. His natural affection in a direct line was strong, in an oblique but weak. Baker. Oblique angle, Oblique ascension, etc. See under Angle,Ascension, etc. -- Oblique arch , an arch whose jambs are not at right angles with the face, and whose intrados is in consequence askew. -- Oblique bridge, a skew bridge. See under Bridge, n. -- Oblique case , any case except the nominative. See Case, -- Oblique circle , a circle whose plane is oblique to the axis of the primitive plane. -- Oblique fire , a fire the direction of which is not perpendicular to the line fired at. -- Oblique flank , that part of the curtain whence the fire of the opposite bastion may be discovered. Wilhelm. -- Oblique leaf. A leaf twisted or inclined from the normal position. A leaf having one half different from the other. -- Oblique line , a line that, meeting or tending to meet another, makes oblique angles with it. -- Oblique motion , a kind of motion or progression in which one part ascends or descends, while the other prolongs or repeats the same tone, as in the accompanying example. -- Oblique muscle , a muscle acting in a direction oblique to the mesial plane of the body, or to the associated muscles; -- applied especially to two muscles of the eyeball. -- Oblique narration. See Oblique speech. -- Oblique planes , planes which decline from the zenith, or incline toward the horizon. -- Oblique sailing , the movement of a ship when she sails upon some rhumb between the four cardinal points, making an oblique angle with the meridian. -- Oblique speech , speech which is quoted indirectly, or in a different person from that employed by the original speaker. -- Oblique sphere , the celestial or terrestrial sphere when its axis is oblique to the horizon of the place; or as it appears to an observer at any point on the earth except the poles and the equator. -- Oblique step , a step in marching, by which the soldier, while advancing, gradually takes ground to the right or left at an angle of about 25º. It is not now practiced. Wilhelm. -- Oblique system of coördinates , a system in which the coördinate axes are oblique to each other.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OBLIQUE)

• Lateral
• Indirect
• oblique
• secondary
• resultant
• collateral
• deviative
• additive
• parallel
• adjunctive
• incidental

Related words: (words related to OBLIQUE)

• ADDITIVE
  Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• OBLIQUENESS
  Quality or state of being oblique.
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• ADJUNCTIVELY
  In an adjunctive manner.
• ADJUNCTIVE
  Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.
• PARALLELOGRAMMIC; PARALLELOGRAMMICAL
  Having the properties of a parallelogram.
• PARALLEL SULCUS
  A sulcus parallel to, but some distance below, the horizontal limb of the fissure of Sylvius.
• COLLATERALLY
  1. Side by side; by the side. These pulleys . . . placed collaterally. Bp. Wilkins. 2. In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly. The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly. Jer. Taylor. 3. In collateral relation;
• PARALLELIZE
  To render parallel.
• PARALLELABLE
  Capable of being paralleled, or equaled. Bp. Hall.
• INDIRECTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness. 2. Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty. W. Montagu.
• INDIRECTION
  Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. "By indirections find directions out." Shak.
• LATERALITY
  The state or condition of being lateral.
• PARALLELISTIC
  Of the nature of a parallelism; involving parallelism. The antithetic or parallelistic form of Hebrew poetry is entirely lost. Milman.
• PARALLEL STANDARDS
  Two or more metals coined without any attempt by the government to regulate their values.
• PARALLEL TRANSFORMER
  A transformer connected in parallel.
• OBLIQUE-ANGLED
  Having oblique angles; as, an oblique-angled triangle.
• PARALLELLY
  In a parallel manner; with parallelism. Dr. H. More.
• PARALLELOGRAM
  A right-lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are parallel, and consequently equal; -- sometimes restricted in popular usage to a rectangle, or quadrilateral figure which is longer than it is broad, and with right angles. Parallelogram
• PLANE-PARALLEL
  Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.
• ANTIPARALLEL
  Running in a contrary direction. Hammond.
• IMPARALLELED
  Unparalleled.
• QUADRILATERAL
  Having four sides, and consequently four angles; quadrangular.
• EQUILATERAL
  Having all the sides equal; as, an equilateral triangle; an equilateral polygon. Equilateral hyperbola , one whose axes are equal. -- Equilateral shell , one in which a transverse line drawn through the apex of the umbo bisects the valve,