different between aslope vs diagonal

English

Etymology

From Middle English aslope, probably from or akin to Old English ?slopen, past participle of Old English ?sl?pan (“to slip away”).

Adjective

aslope (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Slanted or sloping.

   Synonyms: diagonal, oblique

   • 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Love, Hope, and Patience in Education” in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, London: William Pickering, 1834, Volume 3, p. 331,^[1]

     Methinks, I see them group’d in seemly show,

     The straiten’d arms uprais’d, the palms aslope,

   • 1911, G. K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown, The Honor of Israel Gow

     Far as the eye could see, farther and farther as they mounted the slope, were seas beyond seas of pines, now all aslope one way under the wind.

Adverb

aslope (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Slanted or sloping.

   Synonyms: diagonally, obliquely

   • 1516, Robert Fabyan, Fabyan’s Chronicle, London: William Rastell, 1533, Part 7,^[2]

     But the Flemynges with theyr arbalasters and theyr longe mareys pykes set aslope before them wounded so theyr horses, that they lay tumbelynge one in the others necke […]

   • 1674, Charles Cotton, The Compleat Gamester, London: R. Cutler, Chapter 5, p. 55,^[3]

     The Bishop walks always in the same colour of the field that he is first placed in, forward and backward asloap every way as far as he lists;

   • 1710, Jonathan Swift, “A Description of a City Shower” in Miscellanies, London: Benjamin Motte, 1733, Volume 4, p. 141,^[4]

     Brisk Susan whips her Linnen from the Rope,

     While the first drizzling Show’r is born aslope,

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, New York: Harper, Chapter 134, p. 617,^[5]

     While the two crews were yet circling in the waters […] , while aslope little Flask bobbed up and down like an empty vial, twitching his legs upward to escape the dreaded jaws of sharks;

2. (archaic, figuratively) In an unintended or unfavourable direction.

   Synonym: off course

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonby, Book 3, Canto 4, p. 459,^[6]

     His wicked fortune, that had turnd aslope

   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, London: S. Simmons, Book 10, p. 282,^[7]

     […] On mee the Curse aslope

     Glanc’d on the ground, with labour I must earne

     My bread; what harm?

Preposition

aslope

1. (archaic) Diagonally over or across.

   Synonyms: aslant, athwart

   • 1616, Thomas Middleton, Civitas Amor, London: Thomas Archer, “Prince Charles his Creation,”^[8]

     […] the King […] puts the Belt ouer the necke of the Knight, aslope his breast, placing the Sword vnder his left Arme:

   • 1899, Madison Cawein, “The Last Song” in Myth and Romance, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, pp. 29-30,^[9]

     A lute, aslope

     The curious baldric of his tunic, glints

     With pearl-reflections of the moon,

Anagrams

• El Paso

English

Etymology

From Middle French diagonal, from Latin diag?n?lis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diag?nios, “from angle to angle”), from ??? (diá, “across”) + ????? (g?nía, “angle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da??æ??n?l/, /da??æ?n?l/

Adjective

diagonal (not comparable)

1. (geometry) Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).
2. Having slanted or oblique lines or markings.
3. Having a slanted or oblique direction.
4. Of or related to the cater-corner (diagonally opposite) legs of a quadruped, whether the front left and back right or front right and back left.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• diagonally
• diagonalization
• diagonal argument

Translations

Noun

diagonal (plural diagonals)

1. (geometry) A line joining non-adjacent vertices of a polygon.
2. Anything forming or resembling such a line, particularly:
   1. (geometry) A line or plane at an oblique angle to another.
   2. (fashion) A line or cut across a fabric at an oblique angle to its sides.
   3. (typography, uncommon) Synonym of slash ?/?.
      • 1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation, page 240:

        Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.

Synonyms

• (oblique line or cut across a fabric): bias
• (oblique punctuation mark): See slash

Antonyms

• (oblique punctuation mark): See backslash

Derived terms

• diagonal mark

Translations

Anagrams

• ganoidal, gonadial

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin diag?n?lis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diag?nios, “from angle to angle”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /di.?.?o?nal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /di.?.?u?nal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /di.a.?o?nal/

Adjective

diagonal (masculine and feminine plural diagonals)

1. diagonal

Derived terms

• diagonalment

Noun

diagonal f (plural diagonals)

1. diagonal

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dia?ona?l/, [d?ia??o?næ??l]

Adjective

diagonal

1. diagonal

Inflection

Noun

diagonal c (singular definite diagonalen, plural indefinite diagonaler)

1. diagonal

Declension

References

• “diagonal” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Latin diag?n?lis.

Adjective

diagonal (feminine singular diagonale, masculine plural diagonaux, feminine plural diagonales)

1. diagonal, transverse, oblique

Derived terms

• diagonalement

Further reading

• “diagonal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

From Latin diag?n?lis.

Adjective

diagonal m or f (plural diagonais)

1. diagonal

Derived terms

• diagonalmente

Further reading

• “diagonal” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

German

Etymology

From Latin diag?n?lis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diag?nios, “from angle to angle”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

diagonal (not comparable)

1. diagonal

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin diag?n?lis.

Adjective

diagonal m or f (plural diagonais, comparable)

1. (geometry) diagonal (joining two nonadjacent vertices)
2. diagonal (having a slanted or oblique direction)

Derived terms

• diagonalmente

Noun

diagonal f (plural diagonais)

1. diagonal (something arranged diagonally or obliquely)
2. (geometry) diagonal (diagonal line or plane)

Further reading

• “diagonal” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French diagonal

Adjective

diagonal m or n (feminine singular diagonal?, masculine plural diagonali, feminine and neuter plural diagonale)

1. diagonal

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin diag?n?lis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diag?nios, “from angle to angle”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

diagonal (plural diagonales)

1. diagonal

Derived terms

• diagonalmente
• matriz diagonal

Noun

diagonal f (plural diagonales)

1. diagonal

Derived terms

• diagonal principal

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin diag?n?lis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diag?nios, “from angle to angle”).

Adjective

diagonal (not comparable)

1. diagonal

Declension

Derived terms

• diagonalt

Noun

diagonal c

1. diagonal

Declension

Derived terms

• diagonala