Meaning of तिरछा in English
- Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry.
- A squinting eye.
- The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead.
- Relating to Italy or to its people.
- Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500.
- An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic, a., 2.); -- often in the plural; as, the Italics are the author's. Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic letters.
- Awry; obliquely; askew.
- Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; -- chiefly used in technical phrases.
- A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.
- To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.
- To start aside; to shy, as a horse.
- To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
- To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
- To throw or hurl obliquely.
- To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.
- To turn from a direct line; to give an oblique or sloping direction to; as, to slant a line.
- A slanting direction or plane; a slope; as, it lies on a slant.
- An oblique reflection or gibe; a sarcastic remark.
- Inclined from a direct line, whether horizontal or perpendicular; sloping; oblique.
- of Slant
- Oblique; sloping.
- Squint-eyed.
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