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US
/daɪˈæɡənəɫ/
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[ UK /daɪˈæɡənəl/ ]
[ UK /daɪˈæɡənəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- having an oblique or slanted direction
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connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face
a diagonal line across the page
NOUN
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an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard
the bishop moves on the diagonals - (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent
- a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
- a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
- (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry
How To Use diagonal In A Sentence
- Denim is identified as an "American cotton textile where the diagonal warp is a striped hickory cloth that was once associated with railroadmen's overalls, in which blue or black contrasting undyed white threads form the woven pattern. My God George Will is a bigger fashion snob than me! - dfi
- He sped along Bellhouse Road and crossed a mini roundabout diagonally, to the alarm of many pedestrians and motorists.
- He then seemed to move with it in a strange diagonal direction. Calcio: A History of Italian Football
- He then seemed to move with it in a strange diagonal direction. Calcio: A History of Italian Football
- Do it diagonally in both directions, to make diamond shapes.
- 14 April 2005 @ 11: 37 am no doubt correct ... but I object, because I have no specific term for an easy class, I work out in tennies, not tennis shoes, and I'll use both "kitty corner" and "diagonal" as the mood suits. No doubt correct...
- On the diagonalization strategy, we make use of our preexisting grasp of ordinary content to determine what ordinary content the thought would express if it were located at the center of a particular centered world, and then determine whether that ordinary content is true at that centered world. Narrow Mental Content
- In its antihumanism and in its thick impasto, with slices and diagonal blades of dark color making sharp edges à la Clyfford Still, this picture looks forward as well as backward. Return to the Grim and Dark
- How did White capitalise on his pressure on the long diagonal? Times, Sunday Times
- Obliquus abdominis - commonly known as the obliques, this muscle runs diagonally along the side of the mid-section from the lower ribcage to the pubic area.