| Concept: | Obliquity. |
| Category: | 2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS |
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-nouns
obliquity, inclination, slope, slant, crookedness; slopeness; leaning; bevel, tilt; bias, list, twist, swag, cant, lurch; distortion; bend (curve); tower of Pisa., acclivity, rise, ascent, gradient, khudd, rising ground, hill, bank, declivity, downhill, dip, fall, devexity; gentle slope, rapid slope, easy ascent, easy descent; shelving beach; talus; monagne Russe; facilis descensus cerni., steepness; cliff, precipice (vertical); escarpment, scarp., [measure of inclination] clinometer; sine, cosine, cotangent, angle, hypothenuse., diagonal, zigzag.
-verbs
be oblique; slope, slant, lean, incline, shelve, stoop, decline, descend, bend, keel, careen, sag, swag, seel, slouch, cant, sidle., render oblique; sway, bias; slope, slant; incline, bend, crook; cant, tilt; distort.
-adjectives
oblique, inclined; sloping; tilted; recumbent, clinal, skew, askew, slant, aslant, plagihedral, indirect, wry, awry, ajee, crooked; knock-kneed (distorted) [more]; bevel, out of the perpendicular; aslope; asquint, backhanded; recubant., uphill, rising, ascending, acclivous; downhill, falling, descending; declining, declivous, devex, anticlinal; steep, abrupt, precipitous, breakneck., diagonal; transverse, transversal; athwart, antiparallel; curved.
-adverbs
obliquely; on one side, all on one side; askew, askant, askance, edgewise, at an angle; sidelong, sideways; slopewise, slantwise; by a side wind.
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| Main Entry: | angle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shape formed by two lines meeting at a point |
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V, Y, bend, corner, crook, crotch, cusp, decline, divergence, dogleg, edge, elbow, flare, flection, flexure, fork, incline, intersection, knee, nook, notch, obliquity, point, slant, turn, turning, twist |
| Main Entry: | folly |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense, ridiculous idea |
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absurdity, craziness, daftness, dottiness, dumb thing to do, dumb trick, fatuity, foolishness, idiocy, imbecility, impracticality, imprudence, inadvisability, inanity, indiscretion, irrationality, lunacy, madness, obliquity, preposterousness, rashness, recklessness, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, triviality, unsoundness, vice, witlessness |
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judgment, knowledge, seriousness, understanding, wisdom |
| Main Entry: | grade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incline, slope |
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acclivity, ascent, bank, cant, climb, declivity, descent, downgrade, elevation, embankment, gradient, height, hill, inclination, inclined plane, lean, leaning, level, obliquity, pitch, plane, ramp, rise, slant, tangent, tilt, upgrade |
| Main Entry: | slope |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slant, tilt |
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abruptness, bank, bend, bevel, bias, cant, declination, declivity, deflection, descent, deviation, diagonal, downgrade, gradient, hill, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, obliqueness, obliquity, pitch, ramp, rise, rising ground, shelf, skew, steepness, swag, sway, tip |
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evenness, level |
| Main Entry: | slope |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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abrupt, acclivous, ajee, anticlinal, antiparallel, ascending, askew, aslant, athwart, awry, battered, bevel, breakneck, calculated to, canted, clinal, conducive, crooked, curved, declining, declivous, descending, devex, diagonal, downhill, falling, in a fair way to, inclined, indirect, knock, oblique, out of the perpendicular, plagiedral, precipitous, raked back, recumbent, rising, skew, skygodlin, slant, slantendicular, sloping, steep, subservient, tilted, transversal, transverse, uphill, wry
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