Adjective The blanket is covered with diagonal stripes. the diagonal design ran up the wall all the way from the lower left to the upper right-hand corner Noun a design with strong diagonals the ramp was set at a low diagonal to make it easier for physically challenged patrons
Recent Examples on the Web
Adjective
Its Spero speakers are diagonal cubes on stands suitable for sculptures, and their angles light up. Robert Levine, Billboard, 7 Sep. 2022 The screen will have a diagonal of 49mm or about 2-inch. Chris Smith, BGR, 7 Sep. 2022 Perform on both diagonal planes, squeezing the shoulder blades together at the top of each motion, for 10 repetitions on each side. Jen Murphy, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2022 The dress is long and asymmetrical, and it is printed to mimic a bamboo leaf with diagonal rattan-like rope detail, similar to a bamboo stem. Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2022 Seen from above, San Diego’s Horton Plaza, one of his first major retail projects, looked like someone took a knife and cut a thin, diagonal slice out of multiple city blocks. Jillian Steinhauer, The New Republic, 22 Aug. 2022 Recently, a signal was installed to test diagonal pedestrian crossing at the intersection, which is scheduled to be in place through Aug. 29. Caroline Silva, ajc, 19 Aug. 2022 Instead, the sauropods likely walked with a diagonal gait, with the front foot touching the ground just before the opposite hind foot. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2022 The diagonal and curving lines of the plants and the single ray of starlight establish jazzy rhythms.Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022
Noun
The expansive volume under the tent, the spherical ring, the arcs of leaping gymnasts, the diagonals of tightrope were like the elements in the solar system, orbiting around one another, all bound by gravity. Rachel Corbett, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2020 Pat dry, cut on the diagonal into 2-inch (5 cm) lengths and set aside. Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 10 Apr. 2020 Diagonal: Long boards installed on a diagonal from the room's walls. Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 13 Mar. 2020 This can be done by stretching a string across one diagonal and then the other. James Dulley, Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2020 Every subrange of d, such as a target window of 0.95 to 1.05, will be a 2-D sandwich between lines parallel to, and on either side of, the above diagonal.Quanta Magazine, 29 June 2018 By move 42, both of Alpha- Zero’s bishops control long open diagonals directed right at the king. William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2020 Torey Krug made the key play on Pastrnak’s goal, firing a hard, long-distance diagonal from 10-15 feet behind his own blue line into the right wing corner.BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2019 Yes, that Adolf, complete with the mini-mustache and the dark diagonal of hair. Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2019 See More
Word History
Etymology
Adjective
Latin diagonalis, from Greek diagōnios from angle to angle, from dia- + gōnia angle; akin to Greek gony knee — more at knee entry 1