Diagonal vs. Incline — 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.

To cause (someone) to have a certain tendency

Joining two nonadjacent vertices of a polygon.

To dispose (someone) to have a certain preference or opinion or to take a course of action

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

To cause to lean, slant, or slope

Having a slanted or oblique direction.

To bend or lower in a nod or bow

Having oblique lines or markings.

To be disposed to a certain preference, opinion, or course of action

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

To deviate from the horizontal or vertical; slant

(Mathematics)A diagonal line or plane.

To lower or bend the head or body, as in a nod or bow.

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

An inclined surface; a slope or gradient

A fabric woven with diagonal lines.

(transitive) To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.

A virgule.

(intransitive) To slope.

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

To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view, attitude, etc.

Having slanted or oblique lines or markings.

A slope.

Having a slanted or oblique direction.

A portal of a subway tunnel.

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.

To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south.

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

Fig.: To lean or tend, in an intellectual or moral sense; to favor an opinion, a course of conduct, or a person; to have a propensity or inclination; to be disposed.

Anything forming or resembling such a line, particularly:

To bow; to incline the head.

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

To cause to deviate from a line, position, or direction; to give a leaning, bend, or slope to; as, incline the column or post to the east; incline your head to the right.

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

To impart a tendency or propensity to, as to the will or affections; to turn; to dispose; to influence.

Synonym of slash⟨/⟩.

To bend; to cause to stoop or bow; as, to incline the head or the body in acts of reverence or civility.

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.

An inclined plane; an ascent or descent; a grade or gradient; a slope.

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.

An elevated geological formation;

A member, in a framed structure, running obliquely across a panel.

An inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another

A diagonal cloth; a kind of cloth having diagonal stripes, ridges, or welts made in the weaving.

Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined;

(geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent

Bend or turn (one's ear) towards a speaker in order to listen well;

A line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric

Lower or bend (the head or upper body), as in a nod or bow;

An oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard;

Be at an angle;

(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

Make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief;

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