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ALL meanings of obliqued

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  • adjective obliqued neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping. 1
  • adjective obliqued (of a solid) not having the axis perpendicular to the plane of the base. 1
  • adjective obliqued diverging from a given straight line or course. 1
  • adjective obliqued not straight or direct, as a course. 1
  • adjective obliqued indirectly stated or expressed; not straightforward: oblique remarks about the candidate's honesty. 1
  • adjective obliqued indirectly aimed at or reached, as ends or results; deviously achieved. 1
  • adjective obliqued morally, ethically, or mentally wrong; underhand; perverse. 1
  • adjective obliqued Typography. (of a letter) slanting toward the right, as a form of sans-serif, gothic, or square-serif type. 1
  • adjective obliqued Rhetoric. indirect (applied to discourse in which the original words of a speaker or writer are assimilated to the language of the reporter). 1
  • adjective obliqued Anatomy. pertaining to muscles running obliquely in the body as opposed to those running transversely or longitudinally. 1
  • adjective obliqued Botany. having unequal sides, as a leaf. 1
  • adjective obliqued Grammar. noting or pertaining to any case of noun inflection except nominative and vocative: Latin genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative cases are said to be oblique. 1
  • adjective obliqued Drafting. designating a method of projection (oblique projection) in which a three-dimensional object is represented by a drawing (oblique drawing) 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°. Compare axonometric, cabinet (def 19), isometric (def 5). 1
  • adverb obliqued Military. at an angle of 45°. 1
  • verb without object obliqued Military. to change direction obliquely. 1
  • noun obliqued something that is oblique. 1
  • noun obliqued Grammar. an oblique case. 1
  • noun obliqued Anatomy. any of several oblique muscles, especially in the walls of the abdomen. 1
  • noun obliqued Simple past tense and past participle of oblique. 1
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