English Dictionary: oblique | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Oblique \Ob*lique"\, a. [F., fr. L. obliquus; ob (see {Ob-}) + liquis oblique; cf. licinus bent upward, Gr [?] slanting.] [Written also {oblike}.] 1. Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined. It has a direction oblique to that of the former motion. --Cheyne. 2. Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister. The love we bear our friends . . . Hath in it certain oblique ends. --Drayton. This mode of oblique research, when a more direct one is denied, we find to be the only one in our power. --De Quincey. Then would be closed the restless, oblique eye. That looks for evil, like a treacherous spy. --Wordworth. 3. Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral. His natural affection in a direct line was strong, in an oblique but weak. --Baker. {Oblique angle}, {Oblique ascension}, etc. See under {Angle},{Ascension}, etc. {Oblique arch} (Arch.), an arch whose jambs are not at right angles with the face, and whose intrados is in consequence askew. {Oblique bridge}, a skew bridge. See under {Bridge}, n. {Oblique case} (Gram.), any case except the nominative. See {Case}, n. {Oblique circle} (Projection), a circle whose plane is oblique to the axis of the primitive plane. {Oblique fire} (Mil.), a fire the direction of which is not perpendicular to the line fired at. {Oblique flank} (Fort.), that part of the curtain whence the fire of the opposite bastion may be discovered. --Wilhelm. {Oblique leaf}. (Bot.) (a) A leaf twisted or inclined from the normal position. (b) A leaf having one half different from the other. {Oblique line} (Geom.), a line that, meeting or tending to meet another, makes oblique angles with it. {Oblique motion} (Mus.), a kind of motion or progression in which one part ascends or descends, while the other prolongs or repeats the same tone, as in the accompanying example. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Oblique \Ob*lique"\, n. (Geom.) An oblique line. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Oblique \Ob*lique"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Obliqued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Obliquing}.] 1. To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction. Projecting his person towards it in a line which obliqued from the bottom of his spine. --Sir. W. Scott. 2. (Mil.) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; -- formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Cone \[d8]Cone\, n. [L. conus cone (in sense 1), Gr. [?]; akin to Skr. [87]ana whetstone, L. cuneus wedge, and prob. to E. hone. See {Hone}, n.] 1. (Geom.) A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a {right cone}. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex. 2. Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scori[91] around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form. Now had Night measured with her shadowy cone Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault. --Milton. 3. (Bot.) The fruit or strobile of the {Conifer[91]}, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base. 4. (Zo[94]l.) A shell of the genus {Conus}, having a conical form. {Cone of rays} (Opt.), the pencil of rays of light which proceed from a radiant point to a given surface, as that of a lens, or conversely. {Cone pulley}. See in the Vocabulary. {Oblique} [or] {Scalene cone}, a cone of which the axis is inclined to the plane of its base. {Eight cone}. See {Cone}, 1. |