| Main Entry: | tangent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | touching |
Synonyms: |
contiguous, tangential |
| Main Entry: | aside |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confidential statement |
Synonyms: |
departure, digression, discursion, interpolation, interposition, parenthesis, tangent, throwaway |
| Main Entry: | grade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incline, slope |
Synonyms: |
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: | tack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | course of movement |
Synonyms: |
aim, alteration, approach, bearing, bend, deflection, deviation, digression, direction, double, echelon, heading, line, method, oblique course, path, plan, point of sail, procedure, set, shift, siding, sidling, sweep, swerve, switch, tactic, tangent, turn, variation, way, yaw, zigzag |
| Main Entry: | blind alley |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | closed-off passage |
Synonyms: |
blank wall, cul-de-sac, dead end, dead-end street, impasse, tangent |
| Main Entry: | deviating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | divergent |
Synonyms: |
aberrant, aberrative, circuitous, devious, excursional, excursionary, excursive, heteroclite, obliquitous, parenthetical, serpentine, straying, tangent, tangential, tortuous |
| Main Entry: | excursus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | digression |
Synonyms: |
aside, departure, detour, deviation, divagation, divergence, divergency, obiter dictum, side remark, tangent |
| Main Entry: | irrelevancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | digression |
Synonyms: |
apostrophe, aside, deflection, departure, detour, deviation, difference, discursion, divagation, divergence, divergency, diversion, drifting, episode, excursion, excursus, footnote, incident, note, obiter dictum, parenthesis, rambling, tangent, variation, wandering |
| Main Entry: | parenthesis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | digression |
Synonyms: |
apostrophe, aside, deflection, departure, detour, deviation, difference, discursion, divagation, divergence, divergency, diversion, drifting, episode, excursion, excursus, footnote, incident, irrelevancy, note, obiter dictum, rambling, tangent, variation, wandering |