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SLANT

[slant, slahnt]

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verb (used without object)

to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.

to have or be influenced by a subjective point of view, bias, personal feeling or inclination, etc. (usually followed by toward).

verb (used with object)

to cause to slope.

to distort (information) by rendering it unfaithfully or incompletely, especially in order to reflect a particular viewpoint: He slanted the news story to discredit the Administration.

to write, edit, or publish for the interest or amusement of a specific group of readers: a story slanted toward young adults.

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noun

slanting or oblique direction; slope: the slant of a roof.

a slanting line, surface, etc.

virgule.

a mental leaning, bias, or distortion: His mind shows a curious slant.

10.

viewpoint; opinion; attitude: Let him give you his slant.

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Informal. a glance or look.

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Also called angle. Journalism. the particular mood or vein in which something is written, edited, or published: His column always has a humorous slant.

13.

Football.

an offensive play in which the ball-carrier runs toward the line of scrimmage at an angle.

Also called slant-in. a pass pattern in which a receiver cuts diagonally across the middle of the field.

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Also called slant-eye

[slant-ahy, slahnt-ahy] . Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. an Oriental person, especially a Chinese or Japanese.

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adjective

15.

sloping; oblique: a slant roof; a slant approach.

Origin:
1485–95; aphetic variant of aslant

Related forms

slant·ing·ly, slant·ly, adverb

un·slant·ed, adjective

un·slant·ing, adjective

Synonyms
1. lean, incline. See slope. 6. incline, inclination, pitch, obliquity, obliqueness.

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Example Sentences

The direction of the slant of a line drawn from the outer corner of the eye to the inner corner is known as the palpebral slant.

Plus, you put your own slant on the ideas that makes them interesting.

The authors take a mainly political slant on what is in fact a more complex issue.

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The direction of the slant of a line drawn from the outer corner of the eye to the inner corner is known as the palpebral slant.

Plus, you put your own slant on the ideas that makes them interesting.

The authors take a mainly political slant on what is in fact a more complex issue.

Two generous front slant pockets and two rear welted pockets hold essentials.

But there may be a slant here which has nothing to do with science.

Over the centuries engineers and builders made efforts to correct the lean using schemes that only made the tower slant farther.

The hood's gotten shorter and the windshield's got more slant.

If you've got the slant called, you've got to run the slant.

Peers form social groups that slant evaluations toward the preferences of their social leadership.

Unfortunately the views expressed often seem to slant towards its covert agenda.

Finished with wide belt loops and front slant pockets.

Unless you draw a line along the steering column and down the forks, at a slant to the ground.

It forces you to question reality, to view the world with a serious slant.

The economist deserves commendation for even discussing this issue, but their slant is a little misleading.

As for the pockets, the only usable pockets are the front slant ones.

Over time, the editorial slant went away from science to global warming propaganda.

His windows slant at crazy angles, his walls bulge and sag.

Construction details include flattering seaming at the waist and front slant pockets.

Those who feel the sleight better perceive the slant.

As significant is the new pro-reform slant in the party's election manifesto.

It says it wants a parliamentary democracy, albeit with a religious slant.

The palpebral slant is the direction of the slant of a line drawn from the outer corner of the eye to the inner corner.

Given their subjective nature and the slant toward references from big name supervisors.

Semantic search technology aimed at a positive slant advances with a system that can spot.

There is a deep sarcastic tone in many of his words, with a not so typical slant on reality of day to day situations.

Others sit well off the brow with a definite backward slant.

Yet another slightly different slant on this--I've been going through a bunch of closure stuff lately, also.

Use a thinner board if the slant is less than one inch, and a thicker board if the slant is more than three.

If you wish to put a different slant on it then you're welcome.

Like any statistics you can interpret them to either prove or disprove your argument depending on what slant you put on them.

What would the angle of slant have to be so that a slider goes straight down the middle of the slide.

Cut the asparagus into half-inch-thick slices on a sharp slant.

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World English Dictionary

slant (slɑːnt)

—vb (foll by towards)
1.	to incline or be inclined at an oblique or sloping angle
2.	(tr) to write or present (news, etc) with a bias
3.	(of a person's opinions) to be biased

—n
4.	an inclined or oblique line or direction; slope
5.	a way of looking at something
6.	a bias or opinion, as in an article
7.	a less technical name for solidus
8.	on a slant, on the slant sloping

—*adj*
9.	oblique, sloping

[C17: short for aslant, probably of Scandinavian origin]

'slanting

—*adj*

'slantingly

—*adv*

'slantly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

slant

1521, "to strike obliquely" (against something), alteration of slenten "slip sideways" (c.1300), perhaps via a Scand. source (cf. Sw. slinta "to slip," Norw. slenta "to fall on one side"), from P.Gmc. *slintanan. Sense of "to slope" is first recorded 1698. The adj./adv. is attested from 1495. The noun

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is from 1655. Derogatory slang sense of "Oriental, slant-eyed person" is recorded from 1943, from earlier slant-eyes (1929).

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Slang Dictionary

slant definition

n.
a biased view; a unique perception. (A synonym for angle.) : You can probably give us yet another slant on this problem.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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