oblique's Usage Examples:

Their mouth is of moderate width, oblique, and armed with small but firmly set teeth.

'In some places the oblique Mongolian eye is noticed, and (together with certain Indo-Chinese customs) there is often a scantiness of beard and general "Malay" look, which increases westwards, and seems to imply relations with the archipelago subsequent to the departure thence of the pure Polynesians.

The relative pronouns are nominative and accusative a, oblique cases ydd, yr, y.

oblique angle which can distort the typeface to some extent.

Stepped and helical teeth have the desired effect of increasing the smoothness of motion, but they require more difficult and expensive workmanship than common teeth; and helical teeth are, besides, open to the objection that they exert a laterally oblique pressure, which tends to increase resistance, and unduly strain the machinery.

are immediately above those in the fixed plate, and let the bellows by which air is forced into the cylinder (air, for simplicity, being supposed to be the fluid employed) be put in action; then the air in its passage will strike the side of each opening in the movable plate in an oblique direction (as shown in fig.

In many birds the spaces between the metasternum and the posterior processes and again the spaces between this and the oblique process are filled up by proceeding ossification and either remain as notches, or as fenestrae, or they are completely abolished so that the breastbone is turned into one solid more or less oblong plate.

These have yellow-brown skins, black eyes and hair, flat noses and oblique eyes.

The technique of himself and his followers is characterized by the strongly marked forms of the design, and by the oblique formal hatchings of the shadows.

Some of their innovations in grammatical terminology have lasted until now: we still speak of oblique cases, genitive, dative, accusative, of verbs active (O p06), passive (157rTLa), neuter (ou'repa), by the names they gave.

It will of its own accord dispose itself as an inclined plane, and receiving obliquely the reaction of the air, it transfers into tractile force a part of the vertical impulsion it has received.

Outer columns of upper molars similar, the hinder ones not flattened; ridges of lower molars oblique or directly transverse, a third ridge to the last molar in the earlier forms.

Synonyms:

inclined, sideways, cater-cornered, kitty-corner, divergent, oblique-angled, bias, nonparallel, catty-cornered, catacorner, kitty-cornered, convergent, diagonal, cata-cornered, catty-corner, crabwise, catercorner, diverging,

Antonyms:

horizontal, perpendicular, vertical, convergent, parallel, divergent,