Oblique vs. Slash — What's the Difference?

Having a slanting or sloping direction, course, or position; inclined.

To cut or form by cutting with forceful sweeping strokes

(Mathematics) Designating geometric lines or planes that are neither parallel nor perpendicular.

To make a gash or gashes in.

(Botany) Having the part on one side of the midrib of a different size or shape than the part on the other side. Used of a leaf.

To cut a slit or slits in, especially so as to reveal an underlying color

(Anatomy) Situated in a slanting position; not transverse or longitudinal

(Sports) To swing a stick at (an opponent) in ice hockey or lacrosse, in violation of the rules.

Indirect or evasive

To criticize sharply

Devious, misleading, or dishonest

(Sports) To hit or propel (a ball, for instance) forcefully in a straight line.

Not direct in descent; collateral.

To reduce or curtail drastically

(Grammar) Designating any noun case except the nominative or the vocative.

To make forceful sweeping strokes with a sharp instrument.

An oblique thing, such as a line, direction, or muscle.

To cut one's way with such strokes

At an angle of 45°.

To make drastic reductions in something

Not erect or perpendicular; not parallel to, or at right angles from, the base.

A forceful sweeping stroke that is made with a sharp instrument.

Not straightforward; obscure or confusing.

A long cut or other opening made by such a stroke; a gash or slit.

Disingenuous; underhand; morally corrupt.

A decorative slit in a fabric or garment.

Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.

A diagonal mark ( / ) that is used especially to separate alternatives, as in and/or, to represent the word per, as in miles/hour, to separate component parts of a URL, as in whitehouse.gov/kids/patriotism/, and to indicate the ends of verse lines printed continuously, as in Old King Cole / Was a merry old soul. Also called virgule.

Having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other.

Branches and other residue left on a forest floor after the cutting of timber.

Growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal.

Often slashes Wet or swampy ground overgrown with bushes and trees.

(grammar) Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative).

A genre of fanfic depicting romantic relationships between characters, usually of the same sex, that are not romantically connected in the original work or works upon which the fanfic is based.

Indirect; employing the actual words of the speaker but as related by a third person, having the first person in pronoun and verb converted into the third person and adverbs of present time into the past, etc.

As well as; and. Used as a representation of the virgule (as in restaurant/art gallery or actor/director), often styled with hyphens in print

(music) Employing oblique motion, motion or progression in which one part (voice) stays on the same note while another ascends or descends.

A slashing action or motion, particularly:

(geometry) An oblique line.

A swift, broad, cutting stroke made by an edged weapon or whip.

Synonym of slash⟨/⟩.

(cricket) A wild swinging strike of the bat.

(grammar) The oblique case.

A hard swift lateral strike with a hockey or lacrosse stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.

(intransitive) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to become askew;

Any similar wide striking motion.

(military) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.

(figuratively) A sharp reduction.

To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.

A mark made by a slashing motion, particularly:

Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined.

A cut or laceration, often deep, made by an edged weapon or whip.

Not straightforward; indirect; obscure;

(botany) A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.

Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.

Something resembling such a mark, particularly:

An oblique line.

(fashion) A slit in an outer garment exposing a lining or inner garment, usually of a contrasting color or design; any intentional long vertical cut in a garment. Clearing

To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction.

A clearing in a forest, (particularly) those made by logging, fire, or other violent action.

To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; - formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.

The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩, sometimes inclusive of any mark produced by a similar slashing movement of the pen, as the backslash ⟨\⟩.

Any grammatical case other than the nominative

Female genitalia.

A diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso

The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.

Slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angular;

(fandom slang) Slash fiction.

Indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading;

A drink of something; a draft.

A piss: an act of urination.

(US) A swampy area; a swamp.

(Scotland) A large quantity of watery food such as broth.

(UK) slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal.

To cut or attempt to cut, particularly:

To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.

To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.

(ice hockey) To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.

(figuratively) To reduce sharply.

(fashion) To create slashes in a garment.

(figuratively) To criticize cuttingly.

To strike violently and randomly, particularly:

(cricket) To swing wildly at the ball.

To move quickly and violently.

To crack a whip with a slashing motion.

To clear land, with violent action such as logging or brushfires or through grazing.

To write slash fiction.

To piss, to urinate.

To work in wet conditions.

Used to note the sound or action of a slash.

(North America) Used to connect two or more identities in a list.

(North America) Used to list alternatives.

To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.

To lash; to ply the whip to.

To crack or snap, as a whip.

To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly.

A long cut; a cut made at random.

A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings.

Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes.

A opening or gap in a forest made by wind, fire, or other destructive agency.

A wound made by cutting;

An open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)

A punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information

A strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument

Cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete

Beat severely with a whip or rod;

Cut open;

Cut drastically;

Move or stir about violently;