Diagonal is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DIAGONAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an oblique line
• a straight line joining two opposite corners of a square, rectangle, or other straight-sided shape.
• the set of elements of a matrix that lie on a line joining two opposite corners.
• a slanting straight line
• a slanting row of squares whose colour is the same.
• A right line drawn from one angle to another not adjacent, of a figure of four or more sides, and dividing it into two parts.
• A member, in a framed structure, running obliquely across a panel.
• A diagonal cloth; a kind of cloth having diagonal stripes, ridges, or welts made in the weaving.
• (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent
• a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
• an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard
• (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry
• a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
• diagonal line
ADJECTIVE:
• slanting
• (of a straight line) joining two opposite corners of a square, rectangle, or other straight-sided shape.
• (of a line) straight and at an angle; slanting
• from corner to corner
• Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides.
• connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face
• having an oblique or slanted direction

Words related to DIAGONAL

diagonally15 diagonals11

Words that contain DIAGONAL

diagonals11 diagonally15 diagonalise13 diagonalize22 diagonalised15 diagonalises14 diagonalized24 diagonalizes23 clinodiagonal17 diagonalising16 diagonalizing25 macrodiagonal19 orthodiagonal18 brachydiagonal26 clinodiagonals18 diagonalisable18 diagonalizable27 macrodiagonals20 orthodiagonals19 brachydiagonals27 diagonalisation17 diagonalization26 diagonalizations27

How to use DIAGONAL in a sentence

• Besides, this motion in a direct line might have been upwards or downwards, from right to left, or from left to right, or in a diagonal line.
• Anazeh continued to steer a diagonal course for a notch in the Moab Hills that look, until you get quite close to them, as if they rose sheer out of the sea.
• On the contrary, he moved with his usual gait in a diagonal direction toward the stables.
• The details show the system of cross and diagonal bracing.
• The Nautilus was furnished with long diagonal broadsides which carried it to all elevations.
• This lace always looks best, however, when the lines are diagonal.
• Thus the mass, and hence usually the special interest of the picture, is on the one side, on the other the vista and the sloping line of the diagonal.
• It is represented in engraving by diagonal lines drawn from the dexter to the sinister side of the shield.
• If you make the two squares of exactly the same size, you will see that the diagonal of any square is always the side of a square that is twice the size.
• We thus see that the diagonal A C is the side of a square twice the size of A B C D.
• Thus, regarding the example given, if we place the lions in the other diagonal, it will be considered the same arrangement.
• You remove a counter by jumping over another counter to the next space beyond, if that square is vacant, but you cannot make a leap in a diagonal direction.
• There are 4 such vertical rows, 4 horizontal rows, 5 diagonal rows in one direction, and 3 diagonal rows in the other direction.
• Any square on that diagonal from A to H will win, but the best play is always to restrict the moves of the opposing rook as much as possible.
• The brim describes a diagonal line parallel with the line made by the kerchief over the left shoulder.
• They are so folded that they are about 3 inches wide and as long as the diagonal of the fabric.
• The head is generally round, sometimes oval, from an eighth to a half of an inch in diameter, retaining the diagonal groove of the pillar from which it is made.
• The group of cloud-borne angels above also follows a diagonal direction parallel to the larger group.
• The pillars are strengthened against lateral yielding by horizontal and diagonal bracing.
• The first is a very neatly woven diagonal from the ancient pottery of Polk county, Tennessee.
• Steadily, on a slightly diagonal line, it moved up the British slope.
• But to the southward of this diagonal line the swell must quickly take off, and totally disappear, long before it can reach the shore to make a surf.
• Each vertical, horizontal, and corner diagonal column adds up to 15, and the sum of any two opposite numbers is 10, which is twice the center number.
• Thus if the plane of the saw is not approximately parallel to the axis of the log the grain of the lumber cut is not parallel to the edges and is termed diagonal.
• These bats, for the fixing of the principal and diagonal beams and bracing chains, required fifty-four holes, each measuring a foot and a half deep, and two inches wide.

Similar words containing DIAGON without suffix al

diagonals11 diagonally15 diagonalise13 diagonalize22 diagonalised15 diagonalises14 diagonalized24 diagonalizes23 clinodiagonal17 diagonalising16 diagonalizing25 macrodiagonal19 orthodiagonal18 brachydiagonal26 clinodiagonals18 diagonalisable18 diagonalizable27 macrodiagonals20 orthodiagonals19 brachydiagonals27 diagonalisation17 diagonalization26 diagonalizations27

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