All 3 Uses of
diagonal
in
The God of Small Things
- There was a diagonal slash across the mottled bark of each tree through which milky rubber seeped like white blood from a wound, and dripped into the waiting half of a coconut shell that had been tied to the tree.†
Chpt 13diagonal = sloped
- She wore a thin white towel arranged diagonally over her chest and slung over one shoulder.†
Chpt 14 *diagonally = in a sloped manner
- As they lurched into the deeper water they began to row diagonally upstream, against the current, the way Velutha had taught them to.†
Chpt 16
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