Definition of Diagonally

1. Adverb. In a diagonal manner. "She lives diagonally across the street from us"

Partainyms: Diagonal

Definition of Diagonally

1. adv. In a diagonal direction.

Definition of Diagonally

1. Adverb. In a diagonal manner, not square to any direction. ¹

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Definition of Diagonally

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diagonally

diagonalisability
diagonalisation
diagonalisations
diagonalise
diagonalised
diagonalises
diagonalising
diagonalizability
diagonalizable
diagonalization
diagonalizations
diagonalize
diagonalized
diagonalizes
diagonalizing
diagonally (current term)
diagonals
diagonial
diagram
diagram chase
diagram chases
diagram chasing
diagramed
diagraming
diagramless
diagrammable
diagrammatic
diagrammatical
diagrammatically
diagrammatics

Literary usage of Diagonally

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Folk-dances and singing games: twenty-six folk-dances of Norway, Sweden by Elizabeth Burchenal (1909)
"6] (three, and) ; extend the right foot diagonally forward and at the same time hop on the left foot (four, and). [Fig. 7.] (Meas. 2. ..."

2. American Journal of Education (1862)
"point diagonally forward on the right side, and vice versa. (Fig. 12.) No. 22. Same as the last, except when the left foot charges diagonally backward, ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"The matter is easy, because the steamship route between Barbadoes and the Azores crosses the area diagonally and passes very near the center. ..."

4. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1862)
"point diagonally forward on the right side, and vice versa. (Fig. 12.) No. 22. Same as the last, except when the left foot charged diagonally backward, ..."

5. The Merchant of Venice: A Comedy by William Shakespeare, David Belasco (1922)
"From L. corner diagonally up- Stage to a point LC, about on line of Second Entrance, Draperies, forming Wall. From R. corner diagonally up- Stage to a point ..."

6. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"... diagonally through the fell of his chest, a thin white line terminating near the fourth left rib. "My mind's goin'," said Mulvaney, the unabashed. ..."

7. Obstetrics: The Science and the Art by Charles Delucena Meigs (1856)
"I say diagonally, for, although it be true that a child may descend through the plane in a direct position, ie with its vertex, or its forehead to the pubis ..."

8. The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1906)
"Crossing the latter diagonally, we ascend in l/z hr. to the wooded summit of the ... diagonally ..."

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