Both Uses of
diagonal
in
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Looking rather bulky, for they had wrapped themselves up in every garment they possessed, the men shuffled diagonally toward the parade ground in single file, making no attempt to overtake one another.†
*diagonally = in a sloped manner
- When the rear of the column spilled over a rise Shukhov saw to the right, far away across the steppe, another dark column on the move, marching diagonally across their course.†
Definition:
a straight line connecting opposite corners of a rectangle; or a slope that could connect the corners of an imaginary rectangle that has one side parallel to the floor