obliqueadjective
uk/əˈbliːk/us/oʊˈbliːk/oblique adjective (ANGLE)
having a sloping direction, angle, or position:
Through the window came the last few oblique rays of evening sunshine.
He gave her an oblique glance.
specialized mathematics (of an angle) either more or less than 90°
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Geometry: describing angles, lines & orientations
- alternate angle
- angle of incidence
- antinode
- asymptote
- asymptotic
- axial
- corresponding angle
- erect
- horizontal
- parallel
- plumb
- prominent
- reflection
- right angle
- secant
- slant
- supplementary angle
- tangent
- tangential
- transversal
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Slanting, sloping, leaning, tilting
oblique adjective (NOT DIRECT)
Oblique remarks are not direct, so that the real meaning is not immediately clear:
She made several oblique references to the current financial situation.
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Digressing and being indirect or evasive
- beat
- discursive
- elliptical
- euphemism
- evasive
- go (all) round the houses idiom
- go off on a tangent idiom
- implicit
- move off sth/on (to sth)
- obliquely
- parry
- sanitize
- sidestep
- skirt
- stray
- suggestion
- talk around sth
- tangent
- tiptoe
- tiptoe around sth/sb
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obliquenoun [ C ]
uk/əˈbliːk/us/oʊˈbliːk/also oblique stroke UKoblique noun [ C ] (PUNCTUATION)
a slash noun :
Fractions can be written with an oblique, for example 2/3.
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Punctuation
- ampersand
- asterisk
- caron
- cedilla
- dash
- ditto
- ellipsis
- grave (accent)
- guillemet
- hyphen
- hyphenate
- lower case
- parentheses
- period
- punctuation
- punctuation mark
- question mark
- quotation marks
- tilde
- upper case
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oblique noun [ C ] (MUSCLE)
specialized anatomy one of the muscles that lies in a sloping direction from the middle of the body :
Strong obliques (side abdominal muscles) support the lower back and help prevent back pain.
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Substances & structures in the body
- abductor
- accessorius
- adductor
- agonist
- amyloid
- atheroma
- caecum
- grey matter
- gyrus
- hallucis
- hilum
- hilus
- lymph vessel
- peptic
- periosteum
- peritoneal
- peritoneum
- phosphatase
- vitreous humour
- xiphoid
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