Slanting
/ˈslæntɪŋ/ adj, noun, verb
adj, noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The state or quality of being slanted.
"The slanting of the hill was too steep for safe skiing."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of slant form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
- 1 Out of the perpendicular, not perpendicular.
Adjective
- 1 having an oblique or slanted direction wordnet
Example
More examples"We had left the fertile country behind and beneath us. We looked back on it now, the slanting rays of a low sun turning the streams to threads of gold and glowing on the red earth new turned by the plough and the broad tangle of the woodlands."