The word "diagonal" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a line or direction that slants across something. For example, "The diagonal lines of the fence created a visually interesting pattern".
White threatens to take on b5, winning another pawn and at the same time liberating knight and bishop, so Black's first move looks obvious: 1…b4, exploiting the pin on the long diagonal and threatening to capture on c3.
The cross is perhaps best known for its Christian symbolism, but it's also a mathematical sign, a Chinese character to indicate the number 10 - and the same in Roman numerals, except that cross is a diagonal X.
For the croutons, thinly slice the baguette on the diagonal and fry the slices in the olive oil until crisp and golden.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 11.27pm BST23 27 ET25: Essaid Belkalem goes down injured after rushing out to stop a diagonal Andre Schurrle run into the Algeria penalty area from the right flank.
One of the goals was classic Xavi, classic Barcelona: Xavi's diagonal ball, Dani Alves's first time cross and Leo Messi's finish.
The diagonal of hops from 1 00 to 1 20, as the working leg describes a series of ronds de jambe, is a perfect illustration of "after the beat" Romantic dancing, and then she's into that helter-skelter series of piqué turns, skirt flying.
Toast two slices of bread (sourdough is good), butter them, and on one piece pile a handful of rocket (or other seasonal leaves), fresh dill, a spring onion sliced on the diagonal, and four or five slices of cucumber.
Cut two courgettes into diagonal 1cm slices.
At a distance of nine feet, an HDTV set would need to have a screen of around 70 inches across a diagonal for viewers to benefit from the resolution they have paid for.
They would play on the same teams, but have different dressing rooms.In the 1960s and 1970s rugby union players in Britain and Ireland (some of whom have since become Mr Carling's "old farts") had to cover any distinguishing marks on their boots (the authorities were determined not to let the three diagonal stripes of Germany's Adidas company show through).
(Study question 36: "What is the effect on the city of the current diagonal streets?")Proponents of Chicago Metropolis 2020 describe the plan as a starting point for discussion.
