Challenge: Oblique
oblique \oh-BLEEK\, adjective, noun:
1. something oblique, such as a line or figure
adverb:
1. in military use, by turning 45 degrees
adjective:
1. not straight up and down or across; slanting
noun:
1. a muscle attached at an oblique angle to the structure that it controls
adjective:
1. having unequal sides; situated obliquely instead of transverse or longitudinal
2. not straightforward; indirect
by 1425, from Middle French oblique, from Latin obliquus "slanting, sidelong, indirect," from ob "against" + root of licinus "bent upward," from Proto Indo-European base *lei- "to bend, be movable."
1. something oblique, such as a line or figure
adverb:
1. in military use, by turning 45 degrees
adjective:
1. not straight up and down or across; slanting
noun:
1. a muscle attached at an oblique angle to the structure that it controls
adjective:
1. having unequal sides; situated obliquely instead of transverse or longitudinal
2. not straightforward; indirect
by 1425, from Middle French oblique, from Latin obliquus "slanting, sidelong, indirect," from ob "against" + root of licinus "bent upward," from Proto Indo-European base *lei- "to bend, be movable."