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单词 oblique
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obliqueadj.n.adv.

Brit. /ə(ʊ)ˈbliːk/, U.S. /əˈblik/, /oʊˈblik/
Forms: late Middle English 1600s oblike, late Middle English– oblique, 1500s oblyk, 1500s oblyque, 1600s oblick; also Scottish pre-1700 oblike. N.E.D. (1902) records also a form late Middle English oblyke.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French oblique; Latin oblīquus.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French oblique (adjective) diverging from the perpendicular (14th cent.; 13th cent. in Old French as oblike ), indirect (14th cent.), (noun) oblique case (1324), oblique muscle (1721), oblique line (1845), oblique military movement (1874) and its etymon classical Latin oblīquus slanting, indirectly expressed, indirect, also in astronomy and grammar (see note), in post-classical Latin also designating certain muscles (1532 in a British source) < ob- ob- prefix + an element probably related to līmus transverse, oblique (see limulus n.).In sense A. 4a after classical Latin cāsus oblīquus ; compare French cas oblique (1680). In sense A. 4b after post-classical Latin oratio obliqua (see oratio obliqua n.). N.E.D. (1902) also records the pronunciation (ǫ̆bləi·k) /əˈblaɪk/. A pronunciation with /-blaɪk/ is noted in the 16th and early 17th cent. by Hodges and Brown, and is the only form given by Walker (1806). It is given as the main pronunciation by Knowles (1835) and as a variant pronunciation by several late 19th- and early 20th-cent. sources including Worcester (1860), Webster (1864, 1890, 1911), the Imperial Dict. (1883), the Cent. Dict. (1911), and Funk & Wagnall's New Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. (1931). A pronunciation with /-blaɪk/ is also recorded as a U.S. variant in the 15th ed. of D. Jones Eng. Pronouncing Dict. (1997), where this form is described as being ‘associated with military usage’.
A. adj.
I. Physical senses.
1. Having a slanting direction or position; not vertical or horizontal; diverging from a straight line or course.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective]
embelifc1400
inclining?c1400
oblique?a1425
inclinate?1440
hieldingc1480
inclined?a1500
bias1551
overthwart1594
sidelong1598
squinty1598
skew1609
traverse1609
skewed1611
obliquous1614
squint1703
inclinated1751
slanting1768
slanted1770
slant1776
aslant1791
diagonal1796
rakish1830
slantindicular1832
slantwise1856
slaunchways1913
slanty1928
the world > space > direction > [adjective] > oblique
eavelongc1300
oblique?a1425
obliquida1599
sidelong1598
sideways1684
slanting1688
slant1793
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 9 Þer bene 4 posicions of musculez: Riȝt, Transuerse, & 2 oblique [?c1425 Paris euelong].
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 207 The stappes..be oblike and contrarious o theyme whiche dwelle..vnder that pole artike.
c1570 Art of Music (BL Add. 4911) f. 2, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Oblike All noitt iniciall hawand the taill quhidder it be squair or oblique.
1604 B. Jonson His Pt. Royall Entertainem. 574 Shee [sc. Anna] filles the Yeare, And knits the oblique scarfe that girts the spheare.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §139 Hunter's Horns..are sometimes made straight, and not Oblique.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 135 Four Windows are contriv'd, that strike To the four Winds oppos'd, their Beams oblique . View more context for this quotation
1713 R. Steele Guardian No. 20. ⁋2 The oblique glance with which hatred doth always see things.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xviii. 120 Advancing their whole wing of cavalry in an oblique line.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Two Voices in Poems (new ed.) II. 129 If straight thy track, or if oblique [rhymes strike, like], Thou know'st not.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 17 My shadow was oblique to the river.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1543/1 Oblique Arch,..also called a skew-arch.
1948 A. Nin Under Glass Bell 46 He edged sideways, with an oblique glance.
1983 J. S. Foster Struct. & Fabric (rev. ed.) I. iii. 51/2 A curved roof structure springing from its foundations will exert an oblique outward thrust.
2001 S. Strum Barcelona: Guide Archit. i. 30 The adjacent church has been separated from the convent with an emerging party wall ending in an oblique point.
2.
a. Astronomy. Originally of the horizon: †not at right angles to the equator or axis of the celestial sphere (obsolete). Later esp. of the apparent course of a celestial object: inclined at an angle to the horizon which is not a right angle. Now rare.oblique ascension, oblique descension, oblique sphere: see Compounds 2.
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1503 tr. Kalendayr Shyppars sig. i ii They the qwych dwellys other placys bot wnder the eqwynoxyal they haue thayr oryzon oblyk.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 39 There is tua sortis of orizons ane is callit the rycht orizon the tothir is callit the oblique orizone.
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises ii. f. 55v When is it said to be an oblique Horizon, and thereby to make an oblique Spheare?
1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. v. 106 Euery oblique Horizon..will diuide the Equatour..into two equal hemicircles.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ xiii. 250 In such Countreys, where the seasons and variations of weather, more exactly followed the Cælestial configurations, than in these more oblique Climats.
1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. §6. 221 For either the Horizon of the Place is right to the Equator,..or it is oblique.
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 456 The sun,..whose oblique course is not unaptly represented by the wreathings of a snake.
1854 L. Tomlinson tr. D. F. J. Arago Pop. Lect. Astron. 37 The circles described by the stars are inclined to the horizon; whence this position of the sphere derives its name of oblique.
1926 H. N. Russell et al. Astron. I. i. 23 At any station between the poles and the equator the pole will be elevated above the horizon, and the stars will rise and set in oblique circles.
b. Geometry. Of a line or surface: inclined at an angle other than a right angle. Of an angle: less than 180 degrees but not equal to a right angle. Of a solid figure with an axis, as a cone, cylinder, or prism: having its axis not perpendicular to the plane of its base. Contrasted with right.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] > of a line or plane
oblique?a1560
the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [adjective] > having specific property
hypotenusal?a1560
oblique?a1560
local1673
focal1676
octantal1777
symmetrical1794
radical1848
self-conjugate1855
quadric1856
stellated1859
periphractic1881
homoeoidal1883
tridiametral1891
one-sided1893
semi-infinite1903
simplicial1913
mirror-symmetric1952
the world > space > shape > angularity > [adjective] > constituting an angle > not a right angle
oblique1695
?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) iii. i. sig. Qj Of Solides called Prismata, there are two kindes, the one directe or vpright..the other oblique or declining, whose Paralelogrammes are obliquely situate on their bases.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §224 Sounds that moue in Oblique and Arcuate Lines must needs encounter and Disturbe the one the other.
1647 H. More Philos. Poems Notes 164/2 Rhomboides, is a parallelogrammicall figure with unequall sides and oblique angles.
1695 W. Alingham Geom. Epitomiz'd 7 An Oblique Angle, is either Acute or Obtuse.
1707 J. Ward Young Mathematician's Guide iv. i. 356 A Scaleneum, or Oblique Cone.
1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey IV. vi. i. 47 His Highness held the bottle at an oblique angle with the chandelier.
1837 D. Brewster Treat. Magnetism 177 A position more or less oblique to the plane of the paper.
1901 M. C. Dickerson Moths & Butterflies ii. 225 The caterpillars are usually green, with oblique lines along the sides.
1931 Zeitschr. f. Kristallogr. 79 501 The cell chosen is..not necessarily the primitive, i.e. smallest cell, as such a cell would often demand a description in oblique and inconvenient axes.
1981 M. A. Parker & F. Pickup Engin. Drawing (ed. 3) ii. 40 Sections parallel to the base of an oblique cylinder have the same shape and size as the base.
1990 A. S. Trenhaile Geomorphol. Canada ix. 174 Currents flowing alongshore or parallel to the coast in the surf zone can be generated by waves breaking at a slightly oblique angle to the coast.
c. Anatomy. Neither parallel nor perpendicular to the main axis of the body or a body part; spec. designating various muscles, of the eye, abdomen, etc., which have such a direction.
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the world > life > the body > positions or directions in body > [adjective] > specific
rightOE
lefta1200
lowera1400
furtherc1400
lateral?a1425
sinistera1500
upper1528
anterior?1541
inferior1563
superior1566
oblique1578
high1588
ascendant1611
prone1646
peripherial1653
internal1657
supine1661
peripherical1690
gawk1703
ascending1713
adducent1722
submental1722
adductory1752
subdorsal1783
syntropic18..
atlantal1803
mesiad1803
mesial1803
proximal1803
sternal1803
distal1808
peripheral1808
peripheric1818
ventripetal1819
submedial1825
anteriormostc1826
subvertebral1827
afferent1828
sinistral1828
rostral1834
interganglionic1835
submedian1836
mesian1837
haemal1839
supravaginal1844
neural1846
symmetrical1851
suprameatal1853
paraxial1861
posterial1866
hypaxial1873
postaxial1873
preaxial1873
transmedial1876
transmedian1876
mediad1878
horizontal1881
mesal1881
prosomatic1882
dextrad1883
paramedian1890
prorsal1890
ventro-dorsal1895
midsagittal1898
ventro-axial1902
ventro-posterior1903
ipsilateral1907
parasagittal1907
ventromedial1908
homolateral1910
suprasellar1912
supratemporal1975
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 10 These two processes..are..knit together by an oblique Suture.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 801 If each Muscle worke by it selfe, then the oblique descendent drawes the haunch obliquely to his owne side..the oblique ascendent leadeth the chest obliquely to the haunches.
1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 149 Wherein according to common Anatomy the right and transverse fibres are decussated, by the oblique fibres.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Nose The Nostrils are dilated by six Muscles, three on each Side, viz. the pyramidal, oblique Ascendant or Myrtiformis, and the oblique descendant.
1838 Penny Cycl. X. 141/1 When the oblique muscles act together with force, they hold the eye-ball firmly against the lids and to the nasal side of the orbit.
1961 Muscle Power Nov. 18 In supporting a heavy barbell overhead you must also have strong oblique muscles to prevent side to side sway.
1991 News Jrnl. (Wilmington, Delaware) 15 Aug. c3/2 Mark Williamson strained his left oblique muscle (which connects the ribs to the hip).
d. Botany. Of a leaf: having unequal parts on either side of the midrib; (also) †twisted, curved (obsolete rare).
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the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [adjective] > having particular shape
creviced1558
bladed1578
curled1578
purled1578
rank-toothed1578
fingered1597
cultellated1657
pounced1681
reduced1682
cuspidate1693
frontated1719
cuspidated1731–7
subrotund1753
acerose1760
hastate1760
involute1760
oblique1760
acerousc1789
strap-spear-shaped1796
immarginate1800
submarginate1807
replicate1812
toothleted1812
angustate1826
palaceous1832
bicrenate1835
basisolute1847
replicative1852
frontate1855
hastile1857
the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [adjective] > pointing downwards
oblique1760
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. vii. 188 Oblique; when the Base of the Leaf looks towards Heaven, and the Apex or Tip towards the Horizon; as in Protea and Fritillaria.
1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. M8v Obliquum folium, an oblique leaf... It is also used in another sense, which respects the shape of a leaf, when the surface is placed obliquely to the petiole, as in Begonia.
1835 W. J. Hooker Brit. Flora 145 Ulmus major..leaves ovato-acuminate, very oblique at the base.
1903 Bot. Gaz. 36 458 Garrya Veatchii Kellogg.—Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, rounded or oblique at base.
1976 Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) 142/2 Begonia L...lvs. alt., variable in size and shape, usually oblique or asymmetrical, petioled.
1997 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 84 729 Base narrowly cuneate to rounded,..symmetric or slightly oblique.
e. Crystallography. = monoclinic adj. Now rare.
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the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > crystal (general) > crystal systems > [adjective] > monoclinic
monoclinohedral1832
oblique1835
monoclinate1847
monoclinohedric1854
monoclinic1856
monoclinometric1858
monosymmetric1880
monosymmetrical1888
1835 Rec. Gen. Sci. 1 271 (heading) Plagionite.—The crystals of this mineral belong to the oblique rectangular prismatic system of Beudant.
1849 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 139 487 This crystalline acid belongs to the oblique system.
1878 H. P. Gurney Crystallogr. 37 Crystals of..the Oblique or Monoclinic System.
1925 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 107 88 Diaminoacetoxime Dihydrochloride. System.—Oblique.
II. Extended senses.
3.
a. Not explicit or direct; not going straight to the point; indirectly stated or expressed; indirect.
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the world > action or operation > [adjective] > operating or acting indirectly
oblique?a1475
indirect1584
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > obscurity > [adjective] > vague or inexplicit
oblique?a1475
overthwart1545
indirect1584
slenting1642
undeterminate1649
vaguea1661
wide1662
indeterminate1773
unexplicit1775
nebulose1799
imprecise1805
misty1816
nebulous1817
inexplicit1827
fuzzy1937
soft-focused1942
wifty-wafty1943
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1872) IV. 407 (MED) The office of a poete is to transmute those thynges whiche be doen truly in to other similitudes in oblike figuraciones with pulcritude.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. i. 51 The primitiue statue, and oblique memorial of cuck-olds. View more context for this quotation
1618 in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) II. 423 His pleading Innocency was an oblique taxing of the Justice of the Realms upon him.
1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) Ded. p. xxvii Innuendo's, and Parallels, and oblique Meanings.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 246 [Johnson:] All censure of a man's self is oblique praise.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. vii. 255 Good reasons existed for precluding the Governor from such oblique channels of gain.
1876 J. B. Mozley Serm. preached Univ. of Oxf. vi. 151 The language of oblique and indirect expression.
1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. i. iv. 45 Oblique accusations..were raised against him.
1943 N. Bentley Let. 9 Mar. in K. Gregory First Cuckoo (1978) 188 His oblique denial of the cinema's importance as an art seems as difficult to follow as to justify.
1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Mar. 94/1 A-bombs seem to be no answer to the enigma of oblique aggression where the Free World confronts not the Soviets but their allies.
1981 J. Simon Paradigms Lost x. 188 David Mehegan's ‘Shut Up, You Carping Nitpicking Wordsmiths’..does not name me, but contains a sufficient number of oblique references to make it clear that I am one such wordsmith.
2001 Guardian 5 Sept. ii. 14/1 He was asking in his oblique way if the ancient recruit would still be able to remember his lines.
b. Of an end, result, etc.: indirectly aimed or arrived at. Obsolete.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [adjective] > consequential or indirect
oblique1528
consequential1627
deductory1655
indirect1823
spillover1953
ripple-through1962
1528 J. Foxe Let. to Gardiner in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. App. xxvi. 80 Wherby may arise..oblique dammage or prejudice to the see apostolique.
1630 M. Drayton Muses Elizium iii. 32 For that the Loue we beare our Friends..Hath in it certaine oblique ends.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 59. ¶4 Not..for any oblique Reason..but purely for the sake of being Witty.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Hirst, Hurst This is only an oblique sense.
c. Diverging from right conduct or thought; perverse, aberrant. Obsolete.
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society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [adjective] > perverse
wharfedc1175
perverse?a1439
oblique1576
squint-minded1653
obliquitous1833
1576 A. Fleming tr. Caecina in Panoplie Epist. 82 Albeit he follow an oblique and crooked opinion.
1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 182 Oblique regard to private interests doth subvert and overthrow them [republics].
a1770 J. Jortin Serm. (1771) I. vii. 128 There are persons to be found..who grow rich and great..by various oblique and scandalous ways.
1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. ii. 135 It is..seldom discussed with all the temper and freedom from oblique views which the subject demands.
4. Grammar.
a. Designating any case (case n.1 1) of a noun other than the nominative or the vocative (or, occasionally, the nominative, vocative, and accusative). Usually in oblique case.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [noun] > oblique
obliquec1450
oblique case1530
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Introd. 30 Pronownes..have but thre cases, nominatyve, accusatyve and oblique, as, je, me, moy.
a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 66v Salust [writes] Multis sibi quisque imperium petentibus. I beleue, the best Grammarien in England can scarse giue a good reule, why quisque the nominatiue case..is so thrust vp amongest so many oblique cases.
1612 J. Brinsley Posing of Parts f. 50 Q. Which call you Monoptots? A. Such words as are found onely in one oblique case.
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Oblique Cases in Grammar, are most properly the Genitive, the Dative, and Ablative; however, some will have all Oblique but the Nominative.
1763 R. Lowth Short Introd. Eng. Gram. (ed. 2) 32 A Case, which follows the Verb Active, or the Preposition..answers to the Oblique Cases in Latin; and may be properly enough called the Objective Case.
1868 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) v. 169 He is mentioned six times in oblique cases..and five times in the nominative.
1930 J. F. Mountford Kennedy's Rev. Lat. Primer §30 There are six Cases in Latin... All but the Nominative and Vocative are called Oblique Cases.
1965 B. Mitchell Guide to Old Eng. §51 25 Some abstract nouns ending in -þu and -u(-o) can remain unchanged in the oblique cases, e.g. iermþu ‘poverty’ and ieldu ‘age’.
1987 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 32 154 A case system where we find a basic distinction between nominative and a general oblique case.
b. Of speech, etc.: put in a reported form, with consequent change of person and tense; = indirect adj. 3b. Now rare.
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the mind > language > speech > narration > direct speech > [adjective] > indirect
oblique1860
indirect1866
verbatim1892
reportative1953
1860 J. C. Jeaffreson Bk. about Doctors II. 17 We have adopted the oblique narration instead of his form, which uses the first person.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity II. 385 There is scarcely a single oblique sentence throughout St. John's Gospel.
1902 N.E.D. at Obliquely adv. In or by oblique oration.
1992 Pop. Mus. 11 55 Using simplified (especially clichéd) language, precise mimetic effects of place and time, and the importation of ‘actual’ social discourse, in the form of reported or oblique speech and in intertextual quotations from other songs and genres.
B. n.
1. Grammar. An oblique case (see sense A. 4a).
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [noun] > oblique
obliquec1450
oblique case1530
c1450 in D. Thomson Middle Eng. Grammatical Texts (1984) 180 Prolempcis be made... By the nominatyf case onlych, by obliques onlych, by the nominatyf case and by the obliques.
1695 M. Wheeler Royal Gram. Reformed vii. 26 Qui standing alone as a personal Relative is Englished who in the Nominatives, and whom in the Obliques.
1939 Language 15 81 The obliques regularly have -äs.
1961 R. B. Long Sentence & its Parts 494 Obliques such as the insist of she insists on paying.
1988 Word 39 237 One example does illustrate that obliques in Sahu can assume the syntactic properties of object, as marked by the verbal prefixes.
2. Geometry. An oblique-angled figure. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > two-dimensional > other
amblygon1570
obliquea1608
triangulate1610
pelecoid1706
leaf1716
oblongitude1739
hexagram1863
polystigm1863
tetragram1863
tetrastigm1863
trigram1882
tetromino1954
tromino1954
tetrabolo1961
Penrose tile1975
a1608 F. Vere Comm. (1657) 124 A piece of ground..stretched out in the form of a geometrical oblique or oblong.
3. Anatomy. An oblique muscle (cf. A. 2c).
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > types of muscles > [noun]
sphincter1578
raiser1588
in-muscle?1609
oblique1612
abducens1615
abductor1615
adductor1615
antagonist1615
bender1615
depressor1615
extender1615
flexor1615
levator1615
quadratus1615
rectus1615
retractor1615
sphincter-muscle1615
accelerator1638
bicepsa1641
elevator1646
adducent1649
lifter1649
rotator1657
flector1666
contractor1682
dilater1683
orbicularis palpebrarum1694
transverse muscle1696
tensor muscle1704
biventer1706
extensor1713
attollent1728
constrictor1741
dilator1741
risibles1785
orbicularis oculi1797
obliquus1799
erector1828
extensor-muscle1830
compressor1836
trans-muscle1836
antagonizer1844
motor1846
evertor1848
inflector1851
protractor1853
prime mover1860
orbicular1872
transversalis1872
invertor1875
skeletal muscle1877
dilatator1878
occlusor muscle1878
sphincter1879
pilomotor1892
agonist1896
1612 P. Lowe Disc. Whole Art Chyrurgerie (ed. 2) v. lxiii. 256 The bladder is composed of..three kinds of fibres, which are Rights, Obliques, and Transuersels.
1732 A. Chovet Syllabus or Index of all Parts of Human Body 12 Muscles of the Eye. The Obliques: Superior, Inferior.
1794 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 84 208 The fleshy belly of the superior oblique, arising strong, tendinous, and fleshy from the back part of the orbit.
1824 Lancet 8 Feb. 176/2 The superficial fascia of the abdominal muscles is given off by the tendon of the external oblique.
1838 Penny Cycl. X. 141/1 If the pupil be inclined either way, to the nose or to the temple, the inferior oblique increases that inclination.
1869 H. Ussher in Eng. Mech. 10 Dec. 294/3 A rolling or oblique motion [of the eye] is provided for by two..muscles called obliques.
1956 Muscle Power June 32/3 I also found most of the pain was felt in the frontal right deltoid and in the left Oblique.
1987 Muscle & Fitness Oct. 164/3 The obliques at the side of the torso not only contribute to a lean waist, but also help to bring out the lower abdominals to their best advantage.
2000 D. Mason in J. Potter Cambr. Compan. Singing xvii. 217 Other muscles to be used include the upper muscles of the back (latissimus dorsi) and the side abdominals (obliques).
4. An oblique line; (Typography) a solidus or slash.In quot. 1785: an oblique cross-wire at the focus of a telescope.
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society > communication > writing > written character > punctuation > [noun] > virgule or oblique
virguler1610
virgula1728
virgule1837
slant-line1954
slash1961
slant1962
oblique1965
1785 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 75 349 Half the interval of time between a star's passing any two corresponding obliques, converted into degrees, and multiplied by the cosine of declination, will give the difference in declination of that star from the angle where those obliques meet.
1898 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 19 33 Κ The obliques touch the vertical below the middle, the lower limb striking it at a less acute angle than the upper.
1921 Amer. Math. Monthly 28 395 Poncelet..showed that the perpendiculars on the sides of the triangle may be replaced by obliques making, in cyclic order, equal angles with the sides.
1965 W. S. Allen Vox Latina 9 Phonemic symbols..are conventionally set between obliques, e.g. /t/.
1973 A. H. Sommerstein Sound Pattern Anc. Greek i. 7 I follow the practice of Chomsky and Halle, who say..that they use obliques ‘for representations in which the features are functioning as classificatory devices’.
2002 Oxf. Guide Style 146 This symbol (/) is known by many terms, such as the slash, stroke, oblique, virgule, diagonal, and shilling mark.
5. Military. A movement or march in an oblique direction, esp. a half-face. In quot. 1845 in left-oblique. Cf. oblique v. 2a. rare.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [noun] > march > line of march
walkc1450
baseline1802
oblique1845
1845 T. J. Green Jrnl. Texian Exped. vi. 52 He suddenly makes a ‘left-oblique’ for the Laredo road.
1957 R. S. Quimby Background Napoleonic Warfare iv. 161 There were thus two oblique orders, the true oblique, oblique de principe, and the oblique de circonstance in which..it [sc. the army] could attack the enemy at one or several points while being safe in its refused parts.
6. Photography. An oblique photograph (see oblique photograph n. at Compounds 2).
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [noun] > photograph by style or subject
high key1849
carte1861
carte-de-visite1861
wedding group1861
vignette1862
studio portrait1869
press photograph1873
cameo-type1874
war picture1883
mug1887
panel1888
snapshot1890
visite1891
fuzz-type1893
stickyback1903
action photograph1904
action picture1904
scenic1913
still1916
passport photo1919
mosaic1920
press photo1923
oblique1925
action shot1927
passport photograph1927
profile shot1928
smudgea1931
glossy1931
photomontage1931
photomural1931
head shot1936
pin-up1943
mug shot1950
wedding photograph1956
wedding photo1966
full-frontal1970
photofit1970
split beaver1972
upskirt1994
selfie2002
1925 B. M. Jones & J. C. Griffiths Aerial Surv. by Rapid Methods vi. 69 Straight Lines in the obliques will also be straight lines in the mosaics.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 27 June 10 The second photograph is an earlier oblique of a similar type of Sperrbrecher.
1958 C. B. Smith Evid. in Camera i. 19 The other two [cameras]—one on either side—were at an angle to take obliques.
1989 Brit. Archaeol. May–June 19 (caption) Camera tower in position for obliques.
C. adv.
= obliquely adv. 1. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adverb]
sidelonga1398
aslanta1400
aslopec1400
embelifc1400
a-sloutc1440
sleetc1440
slant1495
obliquely1503
shoringc1503
a-swash1530
biaswise1545
biasways1556
slantingly1570
sideways1572
slantwise1573
avelinges1577
bias?1578
askant1602
slopely1605
slantinga1625
oblique1667
bias-way1702
skew1706
slantly1719
inclinably1760
slantways1828
slantindicular1831
slantindicularly1834
skewly1896
slaunchways1933
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 671 They with labour push'd Oblique the Centric Globe. View more context for this quotation
1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry 116 If the column halts oblique..to the new line, the divisions will proportionally wheel, so as [etc.].

Compounds

C1.
oblique-leaved adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > plant defined by leaves > [adjective] > having leaves of particular shape or size
broad-leaved1552
long-leaved1562
narrow-leaved1578
round-leaved1597
small-leaved1597
long-leafed1629
rosemary-leaved1633
rue-leaved1633
teretifolious1657
cut-leaved1731
longleaf1733
channel-leaved1758
halberd-shaped1770
alder-leaved1772
oak-leaved1776
holly-leaved1777
ivy-leaved1789
halberd-headed1795
daisy-leaved1796
narrow-leaf1804
oblique-leaved1807
sword-leaved1807
wing-leaved1822
flaggy1842
curly1845
macrophyllous1857
parvifolious1857
shield-leaved1860
curled1861
symphyllous1877
beak-leaved188.
stenophyllous1880
thread-leaved1884
megaphyllous1901
little leaf1908
ivy-leaf1909
1807 R. J. Thornton New Illustr. Sexual Syst. Linnaeus 29 (note) Oblique Leaved Begonia.
1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. I. ii. 28 An oblique-leaved fig climbs the other trees.
C2.
oblique ascension n. [compare French ascension oblique (1642)] Astronomy (now rare) (of a celestial object) the arc of the celestial equator intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the celestial equator which rises at the same time as the body; cf. right ascension n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > star > ascension > [noun] > oblique ascension
oblique ascension1594
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises ii. f. 54 If the declination be Southward, then adde the ascentionall difference vnto the right ascention, and the summe shall be the oblique ascention.
1819 J. Wilson Compl. Dict. Astrol. 49 Subtract the seminocturnal arc of the star from its oblique ascension.
1976 J. D. North Richard of Wallingford III. App. xxii. 147 V [is]..the first point of Aries, the vernal point... The equator meets the horizon in the easterly point E, which is, for a given observer, fixed... The arc VE is the ascension on the oblique axis, perhaps less misleadingly known as the oblique ascension.
oblique descension n. Astronomy and Astrology (now rare) the angular distance of an object, measured along the celestial equator, from the point on the equator which sets with the object in an oblique sphere; cf. right descension n. at right adj. and int. Compounds 2.
ΚΠ
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises ii. xxxiv. f.165v The ascentionall difference being knowne, all the oblique ascentions and descentions of the starres are easily knowne by the Tables of directions.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Descensional difference The Difference between the Right, and Oblique Descension of the same Star, &c.
1917 ‘Sepharial’ Primary Directions made Easy v. 34 The Oblique Descension of Moon under its own Pole..is 215° 20′ = 14h. 21m. 24s., to which add 90° = 6hrs., and we have the Sidereal Time on the Midheaven when the Moon sets in lat. 33° 53½′ N., which is its Pole.
oblique hyperbola n. Mathematics a hyperbola whose asymptotes do not meet at right angles.
ΚΠ
1866 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 156 208 The values of y calculated on this hypothesis differed more from the experimental values than those before obtained from the equation of an oblique hyperbola.
1953 Amer. Math. Monthly 60 364 Each point traces an orthic or oblique hyperbola as OA rotates about O, according as ω is or is not 90°.
oblique motion n. [compare French mouvement oblique (1765), Italian moto obliquo (1730 or earlier)] Music harmony in which one part remains on the same note while another ascends or descends (opposed to similar and contrary).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > movement of parts > specific
report1502
augmentationc1570
diminution1597
consecution1655
inversion1664
imitation1728
sequence1737
oblique motion1786
Rosalia1786
triple progression1786
parallel motion1864
1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Oblique Motion, that motion of the parts of a composition in which one voice or instrument repeats the same note, while another, by ascending or descending, recedes from or approaches it.
1875 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Harmony (ed. 2) i. 11 Oblique motion is when one part remains without moving while another ascends or descends.
2001 New Grove Dict. Music (Electronic ed.) at Borrowing The use of a drone or oblique motion closing on a unison heightens the sense of melodic direction and cadential closure.
oblique pedal n. Mathematics the locus of the feet of lines drawn from a fixed point to the tangents to a given curve or surface which are at a constant angle with them which is not a right angle; cf. pedal n.1 8.
ΚΠ
1890 Cent. Dict. at Pedal Oblique pedal.
1966 Jrnl. Indian Math. Soc. 30 (1967) 125 The cyclic polygon (P) may, however, be specialized to yield further properties of oblique pedal lines.
oblique perspective n. perspective in which neither side of the principal object is parallel to the plane of delineation, so that the horizontal lines of each side converge to a vanishing point; also in extended use.
ΚΠ
1822 J. Imison Elem. Sci. & Art II. 385 The method of drawing a building..in oblique perspective.
1911 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 8 685 These objects are therefore cast upon the retina in an extremely oblique perspective.
1999 D. A. Rockman Art of Teaching Art iii. 158 Two-point perspective is also referred to as oblique perspective.
2000 J. De Bellis John Updike Encycl. 483 In S. Updike wryly offers an oblique perspective on Vietnam.
oblique photograph n. an aerial photograph taken from an angle rather than from directly overhead.
ΚΠ
1925 B. M. Jones & J. C. Griffiths Aerial Surv. by Rapid Methods ii. 8 Such a procedure will..be necessary when mapping any large area, whether the work be done by ‘vertical’ or ‘oblique’ photographs.
1992 Countryside Campaigner (CPRE) Autumn 80/1 The three routes are fully covered by vertical aerial photomaps, supplemented by oblique photographs of views encountered along the way.
oblique piano n. [compare French piano oblique (1828)] Music. Obsolete rare a diagonally strung upright piano.
ΚΠ
1880 A. J. Hipkins in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 486/1 Oblique Piano, a cottage pianoforte the strings of which are disposed diagonally, instead of vertically as is usual in upright instruments.
oblique process n. Anatomy Obsolete a zygapophysis of a vertebra.
ΚΠ
1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 152 The seventh Vertebra of the Neck had only Two oblique Processes before, and none behind.
1726 A. Monro Anat. Humane Bones 181 The inferior oblique Processes of the Vertebra.
?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 169 The lumbar vertebræ, as they descend, have their oblique processes at a greater distance from each other.
1866 T. H. Huxley in S. Laing Pre-hist. Remains Caithness 148 The processes [of the vertebræ] are coarser and stronger, and the lower oblique processes of the last lumbar are unusually far apart.
oblique sailing n. Nautical the act of sailing at an oblique angle to the meridian.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > [noun] > types of navigation
great circle sailing1595
loxodromics1704
oblique sailing1704
orthodromics1704
right sailing1704
parallel sailing1705
orthodromy1706
plane sailing1749
composite sailing1850
loxodromy1855
radio navigation1926
hyperbolic navigation1945
satnav1970
hyperbolic system1972
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Loxodromiques, is the art of oblique sailing by the Rumb.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Oblique Sailing (among Sea-men), is when a Ship runs upon some Rhumb, between any of the four Cardinal Points, and makes an Oblique Angle with the Meridian.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Oblique Sailing, is the reduction of the position of the ship from the various courses made good, oblique to the meridian or parallel of latitude.
oblique sphere n. [compare French sphère oblique (1611 in Cotgrave)] Astronomy (now rare) the celestial or terrestrial sphere when its axis is at an oblique angle to the horizon (as it is at any point except at the poles and the equator); cf. parallel sphere n. at Compounds 2, right sphere n. at right adj. and int. Compounds 2.
ΚΠ
1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 15 The sphere is deuided into a right sphere and into an oblique or crokyd sphere.
1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. §6. 223 In an Oblique Sphere, where the Horizon..cuts the Equator..at oblique Angles; neither of them passes thro' the Poles of the other.
1809 H. T. Colebrooke in Asiatic Researches (London ed.) 9 357 The star, rising cosmically, became visible in the oblique sphere, at the distance of 60° from the sun.
1926 H. N. Russell et al. Astron. I. i. 23 (heading) The oblique sphere.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

obliquev.

Brit. /ə(ʊ)ˈbliːk/, U.S. /əˈblik/, /oʊˈblik/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: oblique adj.
Etymology: < oblique adj. Compare classical Latin oblīquāre (transitive) to give an oblique direction to, turn aside, divert, in post-classical Latin also (intransitive) to go aside or astray (end of the 13th cent.), to slope away, diverge (from 8th cent. in British sources), Old French, Middle French, French obliquer (intransitive) to go in an oblique line (c1270), (transitive) to cause (a line) to deviate (1444; 1825 in spec. military sense), Italian obliquare (intransitive) to go in an oblique line (a1406), (transitive) to turn in an oblique direction (a1455).
1.
a. transitive. To turn or set in an oblique direction. Obsolete.
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the world > space > direction > direct [verb (transitive)] > make oblique in direction
anglea1398
oblique?a1425
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 68v Signez of hote aposteme..þe eyen..ar rede & inflate, and hem semeþ to goo out of þe heued; þai ar mobled & obliqued [?c1425 Paris set on side; L. obliquantur].
1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals iv. iii When her love-eye was fixed on me, t'other, her eye of duty, was finely obliqued.
1827 R. Emmons Fredoniad II. xix. 300 The wrist bones obliqu'd it to the west.
b. transitive. Computing. To render (a font or character) oblique.
ΚΠ
1986 Whole Earth Rev. (Nexis) 22 Dec. 81 Here, the E is being obliqued.
1991 PC Mag. (Nexis) 16 Apr. 187 It merely obliques the normal Garamond. If you want to use Garamond Italic, you have to choose it explicitly from an application's font menu.
1992 MacWeek (Nexis) 6 Apr. 48 Many sans-serif fonts are simply obliqued, rather than having a separate face drawn for italics.
2.
a. intransitive. To move forward in an oblique direction; (Military) to advance by making a half-face to the right or left and then marching forward. Also (occasionally) transitive: to cause to advance in this way.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [verb (intransitive)] > advance > obliquely
oblique1787
1787 J. Harmar Let. 7 Aug. in W. H. Smith St. Clair Papers (1882) II. 27 A due north course from the landing and carrying place would have struck the Post in fifty miles distance from Ohio, but we were obliged to oblique for the sake of water.
1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry 137 The leader of the head division orders his second sub-division, Left incline, March! on which it briskly obliques to the left.
1827 J. Aikman tr. G. Buchanan Hist. Scotl. II. xv. l. 368 They gradually obliqued [L. deflexerunt] from the direct ascent.
1857 M. Reid War Trail xlii Savage and Saxon were now obliquing towards each other.
1875 G. C. Eggleston Rebel's Recoll. v. 119 General..there is a Federal picket post on the road just ahead of us. Had we not better oblique into the woods?
1949 F. F. Beirne War of 1812 370 Gibbs's column obliqued toward the cypress swamp to avoid the fire of the batteries in their immediate front.
1967 R. M. Utley Frontiersmen in Blue (1981) 207 Wright promptly closed up, obliqued toward the timber, and threw Keyes's battalion to the right and left in skirmish formation.
1993 C. P. Hamblen Connecticut Yankees Gettysburg 102 When Kemper, obeying orders, obliqued his Virginians to the left, he exposed his lines to enfilade fire.
b. intransitive. To slant or slope at an angle. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > inclination > incline or be oblique [verb (intransitive)]
lean1398
embelif1413
incline1553
cast1599
shelve1644
descend1675
slant1698
angle1741
cant1794
squint1799
oblique1814
1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xi. 138 He..achieved a communication with his plate by projecting his person towards it in a line which obliqued from the bottom of his spine. View more context for this quotation
1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 816 The floater is always mostly out of water, the point upward and obliquing slightly forward.
1935 Ecol. Monogr. 5 366 Some of the roots ran rather horizontally outward, others obliqued downward.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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