| 单词 | oblique |
| 释义 | oblique (once / 1110 pages) 1adjn 2n If something is oblique, it has a slanting position or direction. In figurative use, oblique means indirect or purposely misleading. "What is two plus two?" "Fish!" as an answer is completely oblique. In math, this adjective refers to geometric lines or planes that are not parallel or perpendicular to a line or surface. A playground is positioned at an oblique angle to the ground. By correcting the clerk's "Mrs." with "That's Ms. now," the woman made an oblique reference to her change in marital status. WORD FAMILYoblique: obliquely, obliqueness, obliques, obliquest, obliquity+/obliquity: obliquities USAGE EXAMPLESThe island is beautiful but oblique, sublime yet functionally inscrutable. Time(Dec 19, 2016) The hope was that the retreat might provide an occasion for the unpredictable, oblique, Bell Labs-ish exchanges that kept a mature company prolific. New York Times(Dec 14, 2016) His sense of horror craftsmanship is at once meticulous and oblique. Los Angeles Times(Dec 01, 2016) 1 1adj slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled the oblique rays of the winter sun acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base Syn|Ant convergent tending to come together from different directions divergent, divergingtending to move apart in different directions inclinedat an angle to the horizontal or vertical position biasslanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric cata-cornered, catacorner, cater-cornered, catercorner, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-corneredslanted across a polygon on a diagonal line crabwise, sideways(of movement) at an angle diagonalconnecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face nonparallel(of e.g. lines or paths) not parallel; converging oblique-angledhaving oblique angles parallel being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting perpendicularintersecting at or forming right angles comparableable to be compared or worthy of comparison antiparallel(especially of vectors) parallel but oppositely directed collateralsituated or running side by side nonconvergent, nonintersecting(of lines, planes, or surfaces) never meeting or crossing normalforming a right angle orthogonal, rectangularhaving a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles righthaving the axis perpendicular to the base symmetric, symmetricalhaving similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts 2adj indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading gave oblique answers to direct questions oblique political maneuvers Syn devious indirect extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action 3n a diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso 2Syn|Hyper abdominal external oblique muscle, external oblique muscle, musculus obliquus externus abdominis ab, abdominal, abdominal muscle the muscles of the abdomen n any grammatical case other than the nominative Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper oblique case nominative, nominative case, subject case the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb accusative, accusative case, objective case the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb dative, dative casethe category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb genitive, genitive case, possessive, possessive casethe case expressing ownership vocative, vocative casethe case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed ablative, ablative casethe case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb attributive genitive, attributive genitive casea word in the genitive case that is used as an attributive adjective case, grammatical case nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence |
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