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Slant
Definitions
- 1 Sloping; oblique; slanted.
"The Laplander beholds the far-off Sun Dart his slant beam on unobeying snows, […]"
- 1 A slope; an incline, inclination.
"The house was built on a bit of a slant and was never quite level."
- 2 degree of deviation from a horizontal plane wordnet
- 3 A sloped surface or line.
- 4 a biased way of looking at or presenting something wordnet
- 5 A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.
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- 6 Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text.
"Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique."
- 7 An oblique movement or course.
- 8 A sloping surface in a culture medium.
- 9 A pan with a sloped bottom used for holding paintbrushes.
- 10 A depression on a palette with a sloping bottom for holding and mixing watercolours.
- 11 A palette or similar container with slants or sloping depressions.
- 12 A sarcastic remark; shade, an indirect mocking insult. US, obsolete
- 13 An opportunity, particularly to go somewhere. slang
- 14 A crime committed for the purpose of being apprehended and transported to a major settlement. Australia, slang
- 15 A point of view, an angle.
"It was a well written article, but it had a bit of a leftist slant."
- 16 A look, a glance. US
"All batters looked alike to him—I don't believe he ever took a slant at the averages;"
- 17 A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian. US, derogatory, ethnic, slur
- 1 To lean, tilt or incline. ambitransitive
"If you slant the track a little more, the marble will roll down it faster."
- 2 present with a bias wordnet
- 3 To bias or skew. transitive
"The group tends to slant its policies in favor of the big businesses it serves."
- 4 heel over wordnet
- 5 To lie or exaggerate. Scotland, intransitive
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- 6 to incline or bend from a vertical position wordnet
- 7 lie obliquely wordnet
Etymology
Late Middle English, from a variant of the earlier form dialectal slent, from Old Norse or another North Germanic source, cognate with Old Norse slent, Swedish slinta (“to slip”), Norwegian slenta (“to fall on the side”), from Proto-Germanic *slintaną. Probably influenced by aslant.
Late Middle English, from a variant of the earlier form dialectal slent, from Old Norse or another North Germanic source, cognate with Old Norse slent, Swedish slinta (“to slip”), Norwegian slenta (“to fall on the side”), from Proto-Germanic *slintaną. Probably influenced by aslant.
Late Middle English, from a variant of the earlier form dialectal slent, from Old Norse or another North Germanic source, cognate with Old Norse slent, Swedish slinta (“to slip”), Norwegian slenta (“to fall on the side”), from Proto-Germanic *slintaną. Probably influenced by aslant.
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