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oblique::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | oblique case |
| Type of | grammatical case, case |
| Has types | accusative, dative, dative case, vocative, vocative case, ablative, ablative case, accusative case, genitive, genitive case, objective case, possessive, possessive case |
oblique::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | devious |
| Derivation | obliqueness, obliquity |
gave oblique answers to direct questions.
oblique political maneuvers.
oblique::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | abdominal external oblique muscle, external oblique muscle, musculus obliquus externus abdominis |
| Type of | abdominal, ab, abdominal muscle |
oblique::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | obliqueness |
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.
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Torres, who's returning from an oblique strain, was 0-for-4 with two strikeouts.
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He suffered a strained right oblique last season after a batting-practice swing.
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The trammel of Archimedes is a special case of the more general oblique trammel.
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Forty years later, Parker remains a romantic, but his politics are more oblique.
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Sometimes, Alice's poise could make her rather too oblique for ordinary mortals.
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The oblique wing, as he called it, would vastly simplify the structural problem.
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Pictorial maps usually show an area as if viewed from above at an oblique angle.
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Navarro is bothered by an oblique issue, while Gibbons has had vision concerns.
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No Martin Prado, shelved in late September with a torn oblique and hip pointer.
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- 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"
- Any grammatical case other than the nominative
- External oblique muscle: a diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso
- Devious: indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading; "used devious means to achieve success"; "gave oblique answers to direct questions"; "oblique political maneuvers"
- (obliquely) sidelong: to, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face"
- (obliquely) at an oblique angle; "the sun shone aslant into his face"
- Oblique is an album by jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson. The album was originally recorded in 1967 and issued as catalog number GXF-3061 in Japan in 1980. It was remastered and re-released on CD as a part of the Rudy Van Gelder Edition in 2005 with different cover artwork.
- Oblique (2008) is a film by the Norwegian artist Knut u00C5sdam (1968).
- (obliquely) indirectly; evasively (adj.- obliquitous)
