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Diagonally

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Adverb

1. diagonally

in a diagonal manner

Example Sentences:
'she lives diagonally across the street from us'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Diagonally

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adjective
1. mathematics
connecting any two vertices that in a polygon are not adjacent and in a polyhedron are not in the same face
2. 
slanting; oblique
3. 
marked with slanting lines or patterns
noun
4. mathematics
a diagonal line or plane
5. chess
any oblique row of squares of the same colour
6. 
cloth marked or woven with slanting lines or patterns
7. 
something put, set, or drawn obliquely
8.  another name for solidus (sense 1)
9. 
one front leg and the hind leg on the opposite side of a horse, which are on the ground together when the horse is trotting

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Diagonally

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adjective
1. 
extending between the vertices of any two nonadjacent angles in a polygonal figure or between any two vertices not in the same face in a polyhedral figure; extending slantingly between opposite corners
2. 
moving or extending obliquely, esp. at a 45° angle; slanting
3. 
having slanting markings, lines, etc.
noun
4. 
a. 
a diagonal line or plane
b. 
virgule
5. 
any diagonal course, row, order, or part
6. 
cloth woven with diagonal lines; twill

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Diagonally

see synonyms of diagonally
adj.
1. Mathematics
a. Joining two nonadjacent vertices of a polygon.
b. Joining two vertices of a polyhedron not in the same face.
2. Having a slanted or oblique direction.
3. Having oblique lines or markings.
4. Relating to or being the front left and back right feet or the front right and back left feet of a quadruped.
n.
1. Mathematics A diagonal line or plane.
2. Something, such as a row, course, or part, that is arranged obliquely.
3. A fabric woven with diagonal lines.
4. A virgule.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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