What's the difference between cardinal and slantwise?

Cardinal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of fundamental importance; preeminent; superior; chief; principal.
  • (a.) One of the ecclesiastical princes who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college.
  • (a.) A woman's short cloak with a hood.
  • (a.) Mulled red wine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A possible role for Id for IgM Ab as cardinal autoantigens is discussed.
  • (2) Father Vincent Twomey said that given the damage done by Smyth and the repercussions of his actions, "one way or another the cardinal has unfortunately lost his moral credibility".
  • (3) From our data on symptomatology, family history and course of 538 such patients, several findings emerge of cardinal relevance to genetic studies.
  • (4) That diary was published in 2005 by Limes, a serious Italian magazine, which did not identify the cardinal.
  • (5) After the action-packed opening two innings the Cardinals, and particularly Wainwright, settled and the runs dried up.
  • (6) He did not speculate about when that would be, and he did not rebut Cardin’s claim that it could be next month.
  • (7) Updated at 4.05am BST 4.00am BST Dodgers 3 - Cardinals 0, top of 9th And so it's all up to Yadier Molina, the Cardinals catcher who is looking to get a rally going, no easy task against Jansen who looks to have his best stuff tonight.
  • (8) 4.11am BST Dodgers 2 - Cardinals 2, bottom of 7th Jay bunts!
  • (9) Updated at 3.53am GMT 3.50am GMT Red Sox 4 - Cardinals 2, bottom of the 9th Matt Carpenter takes a ball and a called strike.
  • (10) 1.20am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 3, top of the 4th Lackey gets ahead of Freese 1-2, if he could work around the error it would be- Freese takes strike three!
  • (11) The thymus is the first organ in the body to age, which seems incongruent considering its cardinal role in the immune system.
  • (12) The Democratic US Senator for Maryland, Ben Cardin, tried to enlist the State Department's help but was brushed aside.
  • (13) It derives from remnants of the left cardinal vein system.
  • (14) This list gives the Latin first names of all 115 cardinals.
  • (15) 2.10am BST Cardinals 3 - Dodgers 0, top of 4th Yadier Molina hits the first pitch to center field for the first out.
  • (16) After visiting the H-blocks, the Catholic archbishop Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich compared the conditions to "the sewer pipes in the slums of Calcutta".
  • (17) Freese is down to his last strike with a chance to tie it for the Cardinals.
  • (18) A month later, the papal conclave chose as his successor 76-year-old Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, elevating the son of Italian immigrants to the highest office in the church.
  • (19) Now they await the results of the American League Championship Series to see whether this year's World Series will be a rematch of 2004, when the Cardinals were swept by the curse-reversing Boston Red Sox, or 2006, when the Cardinals defeated the Detroit Tigers and became one of the worst teams to win the World Series in MLB history .
  • (20) The cardinal signs and symptoms are given in detail, particularly those at the onset.

Slantwise


Definition:

  • (adv.) Alt. of Slantly

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Art as labour; art as an investigation of labour; the changing nature of labour; conditions of labour as a sign of global inequality: all are notions taken on – in more or less straightforward or slantwise fashion – by artists whom Enwezor has invited.

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