Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. A slanting direction or plane; a slope; as, it lies on a slant.
1. To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.
2. Inclined from a direct line, whether horizontal or perpendicular; sloping; oblique.
To turn from a direct line; to give an oblique or sloping direction to; as, to slant a line.
Oblique; sloping.
With a slope or inclination; also, with an oblique hint or remark.
Obliquely; in an inclined direction.
SL'ANTLY, SL'ANTWISE, adverb Obliquely; in an inclined direction.
Extraneousness Roget’s Thesaurus §57
N. extraneousness, extrinsicality, exteriority, alienage, alienism, foreign body, foreign substance, foreign element, alien, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner, novus homo, newcomer, immigrant, emigrant, creole, africander, outsider, dago*, wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant, easterner, dutchman, tenderfoot
Adj. extraneous, foreign, alien, ulterior, tramontane, ultramontane, excluded, inadmissible, exceptional
Adv. in foreign parts, in foreign lands, abroad, beyond seas, over sea on one's travels, 1, order in general
Obliquity Roget’s Thesaurus §217
N. obliquity, inclination, slope, slant, crookedness, slopeness, leaning, bevel, tilt, bias, list, twist, swag, cant, lurch, distortion, bend, 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 averni
V. intersect, lack parallelism
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