"slantwise" meaning in English

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "slant",
        "3": "wise"
      },
      "expansion": "slant + -wise",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "slant + -wise",
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      "expansion": "slantwise (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1858, John Greenleaf Whittier, \"Telling the Bees\" in The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Vol. I, Narrative and Legendary Poems, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/9567/9567-h/9567-h.htm#link2H_4_0045",
          "text": "I can see it all now,—the slantwise rain / Of light through the leaves, / The sundown's blaze on her window-pane, / The bloom of her roses under the eaves."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "diagonal, in a direction or orientation between cardinal axes"
      ],
      "id": "en-slantwise-en-adj-jOBcPuvJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "diagonal",
          "diagonal"
        ],
        [
          "cardinal",
          "cardinal"
        ],
        [
          "axes",
          "axes"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "slantwise"
}

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        "2": "slant",
        "3": "wise"
      },
      "expansion": "slant + -wise",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "slant + -wise",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more slantwise",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most slantwise",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "slantwise (comparative more slantwise, superlative most slantwise)",
      "name": "en-adv"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
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        {
          "ref": "1924, Herman Melville, chapter 8, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.",
          "text": "[…] he had received a cut slantwise along one temple and cheek, leaving a long scar like a streak of dawn's light falling athwart the dark visage.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1970, Larry Niven, Ringworld, page 113",
          "text": "Slantwise, a salamander-shaped sea came at them, growing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "diagonally, in a direction or orientation between cardinal axes"
      ],
      "id": "en-slantwise-en-adv-LYzllk42",
      "links": [
        [
          "diagonally",
          "diagonally"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "slantwise"
}

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    "English terms suffixed with -wise",
    "English uncomparable adjectives"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "slant + -wise",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
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        {
          "ref": "1858, John Greenleaf Whittier, \"Telling the Bees\" in The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Vol. I, Narrative and Legendary Poems, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/9567/9567-h/9567-h.htm#link2H_4_0045",
          "text": "I can see it all now,—the slantwise rain / Of light through the leaves, / The sundown's blaze on her window-pane, / The bloom of her roses under the eaves."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "diagonal, in a direction or orientation between cardinal axes"
      ],
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        [
          "diagonal",
          "diagonal"
        ],
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          "cardinal",
          "cardinal"
        ],
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          "axes",
          "axes"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "slantwise"
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    {
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "slant + -wise",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more slantwise",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most slantwise",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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        {
          "ref": "1924, Herman Melville, chapter 8, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.",
          "text": "[…] he had received a cut slantwise along one temple and cheek, leaving a long scar like a streak of dawn's light falling athwart the dark visage.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1970, Larry Niven, Ringworld, page 113",
          "text": "Slantwise, a salamander-shaped sea came at them, growing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "diagonally, in a direction or orientation between cardinal axes"
      ],
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        [
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          "diagonally"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "slantwise"
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