Diagonal vs. Inclined — What's the Difference?

In geometry, a diagonal is a line segment joining two vertices of a polygon or polyhedron, when those vertices are not on the same edge. Informally, any sloping line is called diagonal.

Sloping, slanting, or leaning.

Joining two nonadjacent vertices of a polygon.

Having a preference, disposition, or tendency

Joining two vertices of a polyhedron not in the same face.

At an angle to the horizontal; slanted or sloped.

Having a slanted or oblique direction.

Having a tendency, preference, likelihood, or disposition.

Having oblique lines or markings.

Simple past tense and past participle of incline

Relating to or being the front left and back right feet or the front right and back left feet of a quadruped.

Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue.

(Mathematics)A diagonal line or plane.

Making an angle with some line or plane; - said of a line or plane.

Something, such as a row, course, or part, that is arranged obliquely.

Bent out of a perpendicular position, or into a curve with the convex side uppermost.

A fabric woven with diagonal lines.

(often followed by `to') having a preference, disposition, or tendency;

A virgule.

At an angle to the horizontal or vertical position;

(geometry) Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).

Having made preparations;

Having slanted or oblique lines or markings.

Used especially of the head or upper back;

Having a slanted or oblique direction.

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.

(geometry) A line joining non-adjacent vertices of a polygon.

Anything forming or resembling such a line, particularly:

(geometry) A line or plane at an oblique angle to another.

A line or cut across a fabric at an oblique angle to its sides.

Synonym of slash⟨/⟩.

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.

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

At an angle; especially 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