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Slanted

[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

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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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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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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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"Near the lake, which we were approaching with as much expectation as if it had been a university,—for it is not often that the stream of our life opens into such expansions,—were islands, and a low and meadowy shore with scattered trees, birches, white and yellow, slanted over the water, and maples,—many of the white birches killed, apparently by inundations. There was considerable native grass; and even a few cattle—whose movements we heard, though we did not see them, mistaking them at first for moose—were pastured there."

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