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"Montreal has a good defence and they try to make you one-dimensional, and the big thing for us is if they try to make us one dimensional we're going to have make plays to make them respect the pass and hopefully we can come up with a balanced attack."

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  1. Pertaining to extension in space; having a dimension or dimensions; measurable in one or more directions: used in composition: as, a line is a one-dimensional, a surface a two- dimensional, and a solid a three-dimensional object.
  2. Relating to dimension: as, a dimensional equation.

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  • The victim was largely two-dimensional, a thing pieced together out of static images and pieces of information: letters, photographs, the memories of family and friends, memories that became increasingly detached from reality with each passing day. —  The Art of Detection
  • Whatever body the hair and crawly feet were attached to was practically one-dimensional, a thin scalp. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 05 - May 2001
  • The only phenomenon which is common to all planes of the many-dimensional, all-encompassing, or true universe, is the phenomenon of light. —  Astounding Stories June, 1935
  • If Sven's two-dimensional, the characterisation of everyone else is paper-thin and yet awkwardly inconsistent in places. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#211
  • "We have to make him one-dimensional, and don't allow him to get comfortable," Sooners safety Nic Harris said. —  Kansas City Star: Front Page
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