crosscut vs diagonal

crosscut

noun
  • A crosswise cut. 

  • A shortcut. 

  • A crosscut saw. 

  • A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another. 

  • An instance of filmic crosscutting. 

verb
  • To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain. 

  • To cut across something. 

  • To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes. 

diagonal

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

  • Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩. 

  • A line joining non-adjacent vertices of a polygon. 

  • A line or plane at an oblique angle to another. 

adj
  • Having a slanted or oblique direction. 

  • 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. 

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

  • Having slanted or oblique lines or markings. 

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