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Slanting vs Diagonal - What's the difference?

slanting | diagonal | Synonyms |

Diagonal is a synonym of slanting.



As nouns the difference between slanting and diagonal

is that slanting is the state or quality of being slanted while diagonal is something arranged diagonally or obliquely.

As a verb slanting

is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective diagonal is

joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).

slanting

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The state or quality of being slanted.
  • The slanting of the hill was too steep for safe skiing.

    Anagrams

    *

    diagonal

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (geometry) Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).
  • Having a slanted or oblique direction, lines or markings.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=January 12 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Liverpool 2 - 1 Liverpool , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The visitors' undoing was caused by a diagonal ball from the right which was nodded into the six-yard area by Ian Evatt and finished off by Campbell.}}
  • Pertaining to the front left and back right (or the front right and back left) legs of a quadruped.
  • Synonyms

    * (having a slanted or oblique direction) aslant, aslope, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping

    Derived terms

    * diagonally * diagonalization

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • something arranged diagonally or obliquely
  • a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
  • a punctuation mark used to separate related items of information
  • (geometry) a diagonal line or plane
  • (geometry) a line joining non-adjacent vertices of a polygon.
  • Synonyms

    * (punctuation mark) , forward slash, separatrix, slash, solidus, stroke, virgule * (line or cut across a fabric) bias

    Antonyms

    * (punctuation mark) backslash