Synonyms of the word

diagonal

• adj. (geometry) Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).
• adj. Having slanted or oblique lines or markings.
• adj. Having a slanted or oblique direction.
• adj. Of or related to the cattycorner legs of a quadruped, whether the front left and back right or front right…
• n. (geometry) A line joining non-adjacent vertices of a polygon.
• n. Anything forming or resembling such a line, particularly.

aslant

• adj. slanting.
• adv. at a slant.
• prep. (archaic) diagonally over or across.

aslope

• adj. slanted or sloping.
• adv. slanted or sloping.

bias

• n. (countable, uncountable) inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference,…
• n. (countable, textiles) the diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
• n. (countable, textiles) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress)…
• n. (electronics) a voltage or current applied for example to a transistor electrode.
• n. (statistics) the difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value,…
• n. (sports) In the game of crown green bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it…
• n. (fandom slang) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
• v. (transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.
• adj. Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
• adj. Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
• adv. In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.

inclined

• adj. At an angle to the horizontal; slanted or sloped.
• adj. Having a tendency, preference, likelihood, or disposition.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of incline.

line

• n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
• n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
• n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
• n. Direction, path.
• n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
• n. A letter, a written form of communication.
• n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
• n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
• n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
• n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
• n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
• n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
• n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
• n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
• n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
• n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
• n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
• n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
• n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
• n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
• n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
• n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• n. A measure of length.
• n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
• n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
• n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
• n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
• n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
• n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
• n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
• n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
• v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
• v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
• v. To form a line along.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
• v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
• v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
• n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
• v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
• v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
• v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

oblique

• adj. Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined.
• adj. Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister.
• adj. Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
• adj. (botany) Of leaves, having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other.
• adj. (botany) Of branches or roots, growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal.
• adj. (grammar) Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative).
• adj. (music) Employing one of the three contrapuntal motions, namely, 1. Parallel, 2. Contrary and 3. Oblique…
• n. (geometry) An oblique line.
• n. (typography) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
• n. (grammar) The oblique case.
• v. (intransitive) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction.
• v. (military) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished…
• v. (transitive, computing) To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.

punctuation

• n. A set of symbols and marks which are used to clarify meaning in text by separating strings of words into…
• n. An act of punctuating.

separatrix

• n. (typography, historical) The ⟨L⟩ or pipe ⟨|⟩ mark formerly used to divide integers from decimals.
• n. (typography, obsolete) Synonym of decimal point, which replaced such marks.
• n. (typography) The proofreader's mark resembling a slash ⟨ / ⟩ or vertical bar ⟨  placed after a note in…
• n. A terminator: a line on a partially-illuminated surface separating the lit and shaded regions.
• n. (physics) The line between regions having different magnetic fields.
• n. (mathematics) The boundary separating two modes of behavior in a differential equation.

set

• v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
• v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
• v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
• v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
• v. (transitive) To adjust.
• v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
• v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
• v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
• v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
• v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
• v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
• v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
• v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
• v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
• v. (intransitive) To solidify.
• v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
• v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
• v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
• v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
• v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
• v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
• v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
• v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
• v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
• v. To place or fix in a setting.
• v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
• v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
• v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
• v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
• v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
• v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
• v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
• v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
• v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
• v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
• n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
• n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
• n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
• n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
• n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
• n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
• n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
• n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
• n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
• n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
• n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
• n. A young oyster when first attached.
• n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
• n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
• n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
• n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
• adj. Fixed in position.
• adj. Rigid, solidified.
• adj. Ready, prepared.
• adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
• adj. Prearranged.
• adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
• adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
• n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
• n. A rudimentary fruit.
• n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
• n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
• n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
• n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
• n. An object made up of several parts.
• n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
• n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
• n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
• n. The scenery for a film or play.
• n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
• n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
• n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
• n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
• n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
• n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
• n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
• v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.

slanted

• adj. Placed at an angle, on a slant.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of slant.

slanting

• adj. Out of the perpendicular, not perpendicular.
• v. present participle of slant.
• n. The state or quality of being slanted.

slash

• n. A slashing action or motion, particularly.
• n. A mark made by a slashing motion, particularly.
• n. Something resembling such a mark, particularly.
• n. (US and Canada) The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, (particularly forestry) the trimmings left…
• n. Clipping of slash fiction: fan fiction focused upon shipping characters.
• v. To cut or attempt to cut, particularly.
• v. To strike violently and randomly, particularly.
• v. To move quickly and violently.
• v. To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
• v. (US and Canada) To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires…
• v. (intransitive, fandom slang) To write slash fiction.
• adv. Used to note the sound or action of a slash.
• conj. (US and Canada) Used to connect two or more identities in a list.
• conj. (US and Canada) Used to list alternatives.
• n. (obsolete, rare) A drink of something; a draft.
• n. (Britain, slang) A piss: an act of urination.
• v. (Britain, slang, intransitive) To piss, to urinate.
• n. (US) A swampy area; a swamp.
• n. (Britain) Alternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical…

sloped

• v. simple past tense and past participle of slope.
• adj. That has or have a slope.

sloping

• adj. Having a slope.
• v. present participle of slope.
• n. An arrangement or motion by which something slopes.

solidus

• n. (historical) Various medieval and early modern coins or units of account, particularly.
• n. (historical) The weight of the Roman gold coin, 1/60 of a Roman pound under Diocletian or 1/72 lb. (about…
• n. (historical) A medieval French weight, 1/20 of the Carolingian pound.
• n. (typography) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩, originally (Britain) in its use as the shilling mark and now its formal…
• n. (typography) The formal name of the oblique strikethrough overlay (as in A̷ and B̸) in Unicode.
• n. (typography) The division line between the numerator and the denominator of a fraction, whether horizontal…
• n. (chemistry, physics) The line in a phase diagram marking the temperatures and pressures below which a…

stroke

• n. An act of stroking (moving one's hand over a surface).
• n. A blow or hit.
• n. A single movement with a tool.
• n. One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or…
• n. A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done…
• n. A line drawn with a pen or other writing implement, particularly.
• n. A streak made with a brush.
• n. The time when a clock strikes.
• n. (swimming) A style, a single movement within a style.
• n. (medicine) The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
• n. (obsolete) A sudden attack of any disease, especially when fatal; any sudden, severe affliction or calamity.
• n. (rowing) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided.
• n. (rowing) The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat.
• n. (professional wrestling) Backstage influence.
• n. (squash (sport)) A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.
• n. (sciences) An individual discharge of lightning.
• n. (obsolete) The result or effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.
• n. An addition or amendment to a written composition; a touch.
• n. A throb or beat, as of the heart.
• n. (obsolete) Power; influence.
• n. (obsolete) appetite.
• v. (transitive) To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To hit the ball with the bat in a flowing motion.
• v. (masonry) To give a finely fluted surface to.
• v. (transitive) To row the stroke oar of.

virgule

• n. (typography, obsolete or historical) A medieval punctuation mark similar to the slash ⟨/⟩ or pipe ⟨|⟩…
• n. (typography, dated) A slash, ⟨/⟩ or ⟨／⟩, particularly (literature) in its use to mark line breaks wit…
• n. (typography, dated) A pipe, ⟨|⟩, particularly (poetry) in its use to mark metrical feet.