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▸ verb: (intransitive) To look or glance sideways.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
▸ verb: (intransitive, figurative) To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
▸ verb: (intransitive, Scotland) To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
▸ verb: (transitive) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.
▸ noun: An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
▸ noun: The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus.
▸ noun: A quick or sideways glance.
▸ noun: (informal) A short look; a peep.
▸ noun: A hagioscope.
▸ noun: (radio transmission) The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenna.
▸ noun: (architecture) An opening, often arched, through an internal wall of a church, providing an oblique view of the altar.
▸ adjective: Looking obliquely; having the vision distorted.
▸ adjective: (Scotland) askew, not level
Similar:
asquint,
squint-eyed,
askance,
askant,
sidelong,
squinch,
strabismus,
indirect,
skew,
gloar,
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convergent,
divergent,
concomitant,
paralytic,
slight,
internal,
latent,
permanent,
manifest,
artificial,
vertical
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