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Obliquely
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
Example Sentences
- Although it is obliquely ribald now, it is still hilarious.
- He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight.
- Observed from beneath, at street level, they register obliquely.
Collins
World English Dictionary
| oblique (əˈbliːk) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | at an angle; slanting; sloping |
| 2. | geometry |
| a. (of lines, planes, etc) neither perpendicular nor parallel to one another or to another line, plane, etc | |
| b. not related to or containing a right angle | |
| 3. | indirect or evasive |
| 4. | grammar denoting any case of nouns, pronouns, etc, other than the nominative and vocative |
| 5. | biology having asymmetrical sides or planes: an oblique leaf |
| 6. | (of a map projection) constituting a type of zenithal projection in which the plane of projection is tangential to the earth's surface at some point between the equator and the poles |
| —n | |
| 7. | something oblique, esp a line |
| 8. | another name for solidus |
| 9. | nautical the act of changing course by less than 90° |
| 10. | an aerial photograph taken at an oblique angle |
| —vb | |
| 11. | to take or have an oblique direction |
| 12. | (of a military formation) to move forward at an angle |
| [C15: from Old French, from Latin oblīquus, of obscure origin] | |
| o'bliquely | |
| —adv | |
| o'bliqueness | |
| —n | |
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