Slanting

//ˈslæntɪŋ//

Synonyms for "slanting" (78 found)

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Related word relations

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Synonyms

4 entries

form of

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related to

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similar

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Translations

27 translations across 14 languages.

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Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • λοξός adj (not perpendicular)

Armenian

2 entries
  • թեք adj (not perpendicular)
  • շեղ adj (not perpendicular)

Belarusian

2 entries
  • касы́ adj (not perpendicular)
  • нахі́лены adj (not perpendicular)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • adj (not perpendicular)

French

1 entries
  • oblique adj (not perpendicular)

German

1 entries
  • schräg adj (not perpendicular)

Greek

1 entries
  • λοξός adj (not perpendicular)

Javanese

1 entries
  • mayat adj (not perpendicular)

Latin

2 entries
  • obliquus adj (not perpendicular)
  • obstitus adj (not perpendicular)

Māori

4 entries
  • hāhā adj (not perpendicular)
  • kōnana adj (not perpendicular)
  • tīraha adj (not perpendicular)
  • tītaha adj (not perpendicular)

Occitan

2 entries
  • de galís adj (not perpendicular)
  • oblic adj (not perpendicular)

Polish

4 entries
  • skośny adj (not perpendicular)
  • ukośny adj (not perpendicular)
  • nachylenie noun (quality of being slanted)
  • pochylenie noun (quality of being slanted)

Russian

2 entries
  • косо́й adj (not perpendicular)
  • накло́нный adj (not perpendicular)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • коси́й adj (not perpendicular)
  • похи́лий adj (not perpendicular)

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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.

Source: tatoeba (6606611)

Then bid my comrades quit the port and shore, / and man the benches. They with rival strain / and slanting oar-blades sweep the levels of the main.

Source: tatoeba (7035713)

The slanting of the hill was too steep for safe skiing.

Source: wiktionary

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