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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024o•blique /əˈblik, oʊˈblik/USA pronunciation adj. - Mathematicsslanting;
sloping;
sideways:an oblique line. - not straight or direct, such as a course.
- indirectly expressed:an oblique reference to the queen.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024o•blique (ə blēk′, ō blēk′; Mil. ə blīk′, ō blīk′),USA pronunciation adj., adv., v., o•bliqued, o•bliqu•ing, n. adj. - Mathematicsneither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface;
slanting;
sloping. - Mathematics(of a solid) 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. - Printing[Typography.](of a letter) slanting toward the right, as a form of sans-serif, gothic, or square-serif type.
- Rhetoricindirect (applied to discourse in which the original words of a speaker or writer are assimilated to the language of the reporter).
- Anatomypertaining to muscles running obliquely in the body as opposed to those running transversely or longitudinally.
- Botanyhaving unequal sides, as a leaf.
- Grammarnoting or pertaining to any case of noun inflection except nominative and vocative:Latin genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative cases are said to be oblique.
- Fine Art[Drafting.]designating a method of projection (oblique projection) in which a three-dimensional object is represented by a drawing (oblique′ draw′ing) 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°. Cf. axonometric, cabinet (def. 19), isometric (def. 5). See illus. under isometric.
adv. - Militaryat an angle of 45°.
v.i. - Militaryto change direction obliquely.
n. - something that is oblique.
- Grammaran oblique case.
- Anatomyany of several oblique muscles, esp. in the walls of the abdomen.
- Latin oblīquus slanting; see ob- (second element obscure)
- late Middle English oblike 1400–50
- 5, 6.See corresponding entry in Unabridged indirect, veiled, masked, covert.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: oblique /əˈbliːk/ adj - at an angle; slanting; sloping
- (of lines, planes, etc) neither perpendicular nor parallel to one another or to another line, plane, etc
- not related to or containing a right angle
- indirect or evasive
- denoting any case of nouns, pronouns, etc, other than the nominative and vocative
- having asymmetrical sides or planes: an oblique leaf
n - something oblique, esp a line
- another name for solidus
vb (intransitive)- to take or have an oblique direction
- (of a military formation) to move forward at an angle
Etymology: 15th Century: from Old French, from Latin oblīquus, of obscure originoˈbliquely adv oˈbliqueness n |