diagonally
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3.0
- adverb
- /daɪˈæɡənəli/
:
en diagonal
- Our bodies are moving diagonally and intersecting across time, creating a perfect X.
- cut diagonally
- diagonally opposite
- run diagonally
And then finally it's it has two colours split diagonally.
- And then finally it's it has two colours split diagonally.
- Because as you see, the sun is rising and it's going down diagonally.
- It has little like bowling bag handles and a long strap that goes diagonally across the handbag.
- Not only did it fall, it fell diagonally across the two that you you and I saw.
- And I had a new neighbor move in our our backyards touched each other diagonally right.
Examples
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To get to the other side of the park, walk diagonally across the grassy area.
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The bull broke into a slow, unenthusiastic trot that brought it diagonally closer to us.
Fiction book (2002) -
I sit diagonally from you.
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But you can clearly see the rope is hanging straight diagonally to the left.
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Go around the house to your left, and cross the lawn diagonally.
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Look diagonally across the square there is a dark blue sedan between a truck and a small car.
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Then he ordered her to walk diagonally across the corner of Broadway and Wyoming.
Fiction book (1990) -
The surf came in diagonally, which gave you this long ride-- was shallow, only a foot or two deep beneath Robert's board.
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It was designed to mimic the way a turtle walks where diagonally opposite legs move together.
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The road runs diagonally through the town, connecting the two major highways.
Synonyms
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6.9
In a sideways or indirect way
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7.9
Diagonally across the street from another place
At an angle, not straight up and down
In a way that is at an angle, not straight up or across
At a corner diagonally across an intersection from another place
How Diagonal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Diagonally comes from Greek parts dia- meaning 'across' and gonia meaning 'angle'. So to go diagonally is to move 'across an angle', a slanted, corner-to-corner direction like a chess bishop or a line from one corner of a page to the opposite corner.