Skimming a text — reading quickly for the general idea rather than carefully examining every detail.
時間がないので、論文を斜め読みして要点だけメモした。
Short on time, I skimmed the paper and jotted down only the main points.
新聞は毎朝斜め読みして、気になる記事を後で詳しく読む。
I skim the newspaper every morning and later read articles that interest me in detail.
面接前に企業情報を斜め読みして、質問につなげた。
Before the interview, I skimmed the company's information and turned it into questions.
Reading a text diagonally to reveal a hidden word or message (reading across diagonal columns), as opposed to vertical acrostic reading.
この短歌は斜め読みをすると別の意味が出てくる仕掛けになっている。
This waka poem is designed so that reading it diagonally yields a different meaning.
縦読みや斜め読みの仕掛けがあるパズルは、解くのが楽しい。
Puzzles that include vertical or diagonal reading tricks are fun to solve.