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diagonally

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di·ag·o·nal  (d-g-nl)
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.

[Latin diagnlis, from Greek diagnios, from angle to angle : dia-, dia- + gni, angle, corner; see genu-1 in Indo-European roots.]

di·ago·nal·ly adv.
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Adv.1.diagonally - in a diagonal manner; "she lives diagonally across the street from us"

diagonally
adverb aslant, obliquely, on the cross, at an angle, crosswise, on the bias, cornerwise


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If slanted, the Nautilus, according to this inclination, and under the influence of the screw, either sinks diagonally or rises diagonally as it suits me.
This mount of bright colours descended diagonally from the first floor to the carpet that covered the sidewalk.
The man was older, dark, with an evil face made more forbidding by a long scar extending from near the left temple diagonally downward into the black mustache; though in my dreams it seemed rather to haunt the face as a thing apart--I can express it no otherwise--than to belong to it.
 
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