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Sideways vs Diagonally - What's the difference?

sideways | diagonally |

As adverbs the difference between sideways and diagonally

is that sideways is with a side to the front while diagonally is in a diagonal manner, not square to any direction.

As a noun sideways

is .

As an adjective sideways

is moving or directed toward one side.

sideways

English

Noun

(head)
  • *2002 , Joseph Brodsky, ?Cynthia L. Haven, Joseph Brodsky: Conversations , page 169:
    • And he was just taking byways and sideways , travelling in the peripheries of civilization, yeah?
  • *2006 , David Haskell, Roundabout the USA , page 103:
    • In time our way merged into a throng of cars flowing here and there on the highways and sideways of the north side of Los Angeles.
  • *2013 , Pitou van Dijck, The Impact of the IIRSA Road Infrastructure Programme on Amazonia , page 81:
    • Expansion of economic activities resulted in the construction of a so—called fishbone pattern of roads and sideways .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Moving or directed toward one side.
    • Giving Mary a sideways glance, he said,.
    He gave the ball a sideways kick.
  • (informal) Positioned]] [[#Adverb, sideways (with a side to the front).
    • There was a stack of papers in front of each seat at the table, but each stack was sideways .
  • (informal) Neither moving upward nor moving downward.
    • Once we get out of this sideways economy, our figures will more accurately reflect what we're truly capable of.
  • (chiefly, US, colloquial) Not as planned; towards a worse outcome.
    • We realized the project could go sideways very quickly if we didn't get the sales and marketing people on our side.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2011 , author=D P Lyle , title=Hot Lights, Cold Steel , chapter=78 , page=PT340 citation , isbn=160542191X , passage=As we walked deeper into the darkness, we both knew this could go sideways in a heartbeat. We were sitting ducks. Birds on a wire. Canaries in a coalmine. }}
  • In conflict (with); not compatible (with).
    • He was constantly getting sideways with his boss till he got fired.

    Adverb

  • With a side to the front.
  • :
  • Towards one side.
  • :
  • *
  • *:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways , as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
  • Askance; sidelong.
  • (lb) Neither upward nor downward.
  • :

    • Anagrams

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    diagonally

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a diagonal manner, not square to any direction.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}