Usually means: Diagonal or oblique direction, movement.
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  1. slantways: Merriam-Webster
  2. slantways: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. slantways: Collins English Dictionary
  4. slantways: Vocabulary.com
  5. slantways: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. slantways: Wiktionary
  7. slantways: Dictionary.com
  8. slantways: Rhymezone
  9. slantways: FreeDictionary.org
  10. slantways: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. slantways: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slantways: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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▸ adverb:  Alternative form of slantwise [diagonally, in a direction or orientation between cardinal axes]

Similar:
slantedly, slantly, slantingways, aslantwise, on the skew, cross-wise, diagonalwise, bias, acrosswise, nondiagonally, more...

Opposite:
straight, perpendicular, upright, vertical

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Similar:
slantedly, slantly, slantingways, aslantwise, on the skew, cross-wise, diagonalwise, bias, acrosswise, nondiagonally, more...

Opposite:
straight, perpendicular, upright, vertical



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