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Hidden vs Oblique - What's the difference?

hidden | oblique |

As verbs the difference between hidden and oblique

is that hidden is while oblique is .

As an adjective hidden

is that has been moved out of sight invisible or unapparent.

hidden

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That has been moved out of sight. Invisible or unapparent.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
    • , section=chapter 7, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=It was the Lost Oasis, the Oasis of the vision in the sand. […] Deep-hidden in the hollow, beneath the cliffs, it lay; and round it the happy verdure spread for many a rood.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= It's a gas , passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
  • Obscure.
  • That has been hidden.

    • Synonyms

    * See

    Antonyms

    * See

    oblique

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined.
  • * Cheyne
    • It has a direction oblique to that of the former motion.
  • Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister.
  • * Drayton
    • The love we bear our friends Hath in it certain oblique ends.
  • * De Quincey
    • This mode of oblique research, when a more direct one is denied, we find to be the only one in our power.
  • * Wordsworth
    • Then would be closed the restless, oblique eye / That looks for evil, like a treacherous spy.
  • Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
  • * Baker
    • His natural affection in a direct line was strong, in an oblique but weak.
  • (botany, of leaves) Having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side larger or extending further than the other.

    • Derived terms

    * oblique angle * oblique arch * oblique ascension * oblique bridge * oblique case * oblique circle * oblique fire * oblique flank * oblique line * oblique motion * oblique muscle * oblique narration * oblique plane * oblique sailing * oblique speech * oblique sphere * oblique step * oblique system of coordinates

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geometry) An oblique line.
  • The punctuation sign "/"
  • (grammar) The oblique case.

    • Verb

  • To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction.
  • * Projecting his person towards it in a line which obliqued from the bottom of his spine. - Sir. W. Scott.
  • (military) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
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