Slant

Definition: Slant

Slant

Noun

1. A biased way of looking at or presenting something.

2. Degree of deviation from a horizontal plane: "the roof had a steep pitch".

Verb

1. Lie obliquely; "A scar slanted across his face".

2. Present with a bias.

3. To incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister".

4. Heel over.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "slant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Mining

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SLANT

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Slant

Extraneousness

Noun: extraneousness; Adjective: extrinsicality; exteriority; alienage, alienism. foreign body, foreign substance, foreign element; alien, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner, novus homo, newcomer, immigrant, emigrant; creole, Africander; outsider; Dago, wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant, Easterner, Dutchman, tenderfoot.

Obliquity

Noun: obliquity, inclination, slope, slant, crookedness; Adjective: slopeness; leaning; Verb: bevel, tilt; bias, list, twist, swag, cant, lurch; distortion; bend; (curve); tower of Pisa.

Crosswords: Slant

Swedish (coin, copper).

And a slant to the left (Happy Gilmore; writing credit: Tim Herlihy; Adam Sandler)

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Books

• A Certain Slant of Light (reference)

• A Nose Can Slant (reference)

• A Slant of Sun (reference)

• A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage (reference)

• From Slant to Straight: Recent Trends in Women's Poetry (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Slant (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Emily Dickinson: A Certain Slant of Light (reference)

• Emily Dickinson:Certain Slant of Ligh (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Emily Dickinson: A Different Slant of Light (reference)

• Slant 6 Mind (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• SLANT FIN 195513 - Replacement Ultraviolet Germicidal Bulb (reference)

• SLANT FIN Humidifier Mineral Absorption Pads (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Some children with DiGeorge Anomaly have a distinctive look, with an underdeveloped chin, eyes that slant downward, and misshapen ear lobes. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "slant": at a slant ♦ be on the slant ♦ indicated slant course directional error ♦ indicated slant course line ♦ intrasentential slant ♦ on a slant ♦ on the slant ♦ slant course line ♦ slant eye ♦ slant eyes ♦ slant of wind ♦ slant or wind ♦ slant range ♦ slant serpent ♦ slant visibility ♦ slant visual range ♦ take a slant at. Additional references.

Beginning with "slant": slant-eye, slant-eyed, slant-featured, slant-polarised, slant-walls, slant-wise.

Ending with "slant": sw-slant.

Albanian

shtrembëroj (bevel, contort, deface, deform, deprave, distort, falsify, mutilate, skew, sophisticate, travesty, warp), tatëpjetë (bevel, decline, declivity, descent, dip, down, downhill, downward, downwards, incline, ramp, slope), pjerrem (fall, skew, slope, tilt), pjerrësi (cocking, declination, declivity, gradient, incidence, inclination, incline, knee, pitch, ramp, recliner, scarp, set, shearing, site, slope, splay, talus, tilt, trim), i tatëpjetë (abrupt, downhill), i pjerrët (arduous, bevel, declivitous, declivous, high pitched, hilly, inclined, leaning, oblique, reclinate, sideling, skew, slanting, slantwise, sloping), anohem (careen, lean), anim (bank, careen, heel, lean, list, tilt). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ميل (affection, aptness, bent, bevel, cant, disposition, flair, genius, gradient, gust, gusto, inclination, lean, leaning, liking, obliqueness, obliquity, penchant, persuasion, ply, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, readiness, run, sentiment, set, slope, strain, tendency, tip, turn, use, will), ‏منحرف (askew, aslant, awry, bent, deflector, depraved, devious, errant, inclined, oblique, perverse, skew, slanted, slanting, tilted), ‏ملاحظة ساخرة (dig, jeer, jest, skit, sneer, wipe), ‏مال (assets, be inclined, bend, bent, cant, capital, chattel, coins, estate, feel sympathy for, funds, gold, incline, lean, like, pelf, possessions, property, purse, shekels, skew, slope, sympathize with, tilt, tip), ‏مائل (atilt, awry, bent, bevel, bias, cock eyed, diagonal, inclined, oblique, sidelong, skew, slanted, slantwise, slope, sloping, stooping, thwart, titled), ‏وجهة نظر (angle, color, colour, dogmatism, estimation, mind, opinion, perspective, point of view, sentiment, standpoint, viewpoint), ‏حرف (brim, brink, character, contort, corrupt, deviate, distort, diverge, edge, falsify, garble, letter, list, margin, misrepresent, particle, tamper, torture, twist, wrest), ‏إنحدر (batter, bevel away, decline, descend, devolve, dip, drop, incline, pitch, run, shelve, slope), ‏أفق (prospect, skyline, verge, vista), ‏شوه (assassinate, blemish, color, colour, deface, defile, deform, denigrate, distort, falsify, garble, harm, maim, mangle, mar, misrepresent, mutilate, pervert, queer, skew, slur, spoil, tinker, torment, torture, twist, warp, wrench). (various references)

Bulgarian 

склон (ascent, decline, declivity, descent, downhill, drop, flank, hang, hanging, hillside, inclination, incline, pitch, pitching, ramp, side, slope, talus, versant), спускам се надолу (delve), гледна точка (angle, sight, viewpoint), наклонявам (cant, depress, dip, incline, lean, list, slope, tip), наклонен (downhill, hanging, inclined, intent, low-grade, oblique, one sided, prone, rampant, ready, scalene, skew, slantindicular, slanting, sloped, sloping, splay, supine), наклон (batter, bevel, bias, declension, declivity, dip, fall, grade, gradient, incidence, inclination, incline, inflection, inflexion, lean, leaning, low-grade, rake, ramp, rise, skew, slope, throw, tilt, versant), преиначавам (falsify, wrench), предавам тенденциозно, позиция (point, position, stance, stand, station), полегатост (cant, incline, obliquity, pitch, slope, versant), полегат (declivous, downhill, inclined, oblique, prone, rampant, slantindicular, slanting, sloping), подчертана тенденция. (various references)

Chinese 

偏�"�, 傾斜 (incline, lean, slope, tilt). (various references)

Czech

svažovat se (decline, descend, dip, incline, shelve, slope down), sklon (aptitude, bent, bevel, bias, dip, disposition, drive, fall, gradient, inclination, lean, leaning, penchant, ply, proclivity, propensity, rake, slope, strain, tendency, tilt, twist), sešikmit (splay), zkreslovat, tendenènost, pohled (greeting card, look, postcard, regard, sight, spectacle, view), perspektiva (perspective), příèný (diagonal, transverse, traverse), naklonìná rovina, mít sklon (tend), kosý (oblique, sidelong), šikmý (oblique, skew, slanting, sloping). (various references)

Danish

skråboring (inclined well, slant drilling, slanted drilling, slanted-hole drilling). (various references)

Dutch

schuine streep (diagonal, oblique stroke, scratch, shilling stroke, solidus). (various references)

Farsi 

نگاه کج (Leer), نظر (Advice, Discretion, Esteem, Look, Opinion, Regard, Shim, Sight, Thought, Verdict, View, Viewpoint), کجی (Clubfoot, Crook, Curvature, Hade, List, Obliquity, Skew, Slope, Tilt), کج کردن (Bend, Contort, Crook, Deflect, Distort, Hook, Incline, Inflect, List, Strain, Tilt, Top), کج رفتن , کج (Askance, Askew, Awry, Crank, Crump, Devious, Gauche, Indirect, Lopsided, Sidelong, Sinister, Snafu, Thwart, Wry), تحریف کردن (Agonize, Distort, Garble, Skew), سطح اریب (Bevel), سراشیب (Bluff, Shelvy, Steep), خطکج , اریب (Diagonal, Oblique, Sidle), شیب پیداکردن (Decline), شیب (Declivity, Dip, Gradient, Inclination, Incline, Pendant, Rake, Slope, Tilt). (various references)

Finnish

viistous (obliqueness). (various references)

French

présenter avec parti, incliner (slope), inclination (slope), inclinaison (subsidence slope), faire pencher, coup d'ensemble, biais, barre transversale, barre oblique, barre de fraction oblique, angle. (various references)

German

sich neigen (bend, bow, cant, draw to an end, heel, incline, lean, lean over, list, rake, slope, slope down, tilt, tilt over, tilt up, tip, tip up, to incline), Schraegstrich (diagonal, oblique stroke, scratch, shilling stroke, solidus), schraeger Bruchstrich (diagonal, oblique stroke, scratch, shilling stroke, solidus), schräglage (angle, bank, banking, oblique position, sloping position), schrägheit (angle, obliqueness, pitch, slope), Schrägfläche (angular face), schräge (angle, bevel, cant, obliqueness, pitch, slantingly, slope, sloping surface, transversely), schiefstellen (to slant), verschieben (alter, change, defer, delay, dislodge, displace, hold over, leave over, move, postpone, put back, put off, relocate, relocating, remit, ruck up, scrolls, shift, shunt, to displace, to relocate, traffic in), tendenz (bias, direction, drift, intention, run, tendency, tenor, trend), neigung (affection, affinity, aptitude, bent, bias, declination, decline, dip, disposition, fall, fondness, gradient, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, list, obliqueness, penchant, pitch, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, rake, slope, taste, tendance, tendency, tilt, turn), färben (bias, color, colour, dye, dyeing, paint, run, tinge, tint, to colour), abschrägen (bevel, chamfering, skew, slope, to bevel, to slant, to slope). (various references)

Greek 

κλίνω (cant, careen, conjugate, decline, hang up, heel, incline, inflect, lean, list, shelve, slope, tend, tilt, tip, trend, verge). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�"רון (declivity, gradient, incline, slope), לשפע (cant, splay, trim), לכסון (tilt, turning sideways), ל�"שתפע (tilt), ל�"טות (abduce, divert, heel, steer, tilt), ל� טות באלכסון, שפיע�" (leaning, rake), שפוע (bank, bevel, cant, gradient, incline, obliqueness, rake, rise, slope, splay, tilt, tip), אלכסון (bias, diagonal line, hypotenuse), �"שקפ�" (conception, outlook, review, sight, stance, view), � טי�" (bent, deviation, disposition, inclination, leaning, liking, penchant, pitch, predilection, proclivity, propensity, rake, set, spirit, streak, taste, tendency, tenor, tide, tilt, trend). (various references)

Hungarian

szemszög (angle, point of view), lejt (slope, to batter, to cant, to incline, to rake, to shelve, to slant, to slope, to tilt), ötlet (brainchild, conceit, gimmick, idea, wrinkle), alkalom (break, chance, expedience, expediency, handle, occasion, opening, opportunity, peg, time), dőlés (dip, gradient, heeling, listing, pitching, rake, slope, tilt), dőlt (inclined, slanting), elgondolás (concept, conception, design, device, excogitation, idea, intention, plan), ereszkedés (setting, settling), ferde (aslope, awry, beveled, bias, biased, biassed, cant, cock eyed, cockeyed, cross, leaning, oblique, out of the straigh, perverse, sideling, sidelong, skew, slanting, splay), ferde irány (slant course line), álláspont (point of view, side, stand, standing-point, standpoint), ferdeség (cant, leaning, obliquity, skew, skewness, twist, wryness), vmilyen beállítás, lejtõ (gradient, inclination, incline, lean, prone, side, slope, slope lift), rétegdőlés, rézsútos irány, rézsútosság (bias, cant, skew), terv (adumbration, brainchild, cadre, calculation, conception, contrivance, design, device, draft plan, layout, plan, plot, pretence, project, purpose, scheme), vélemény (approbation, conceit, esteem, eye, judgement, judgment, lay opinion, mind, notion, opinion, point of view, tenet, thinking, verdict), virgula (virgule), ferde vonal szavak között. (various references)

Indonesian

sipit, mengereng (lean, slope), kemencengan. (various references)

Italian

sghembo (crooked), punto di vista (angle, attitude, point of view, standpoint, viewpoint), propendere (be inclined, incline, lean, tend), pendere (be inclined, be pending, droop, flag, hang, hang over, lean, lop, slope, tend, tip), pendenza (gradient, inclination, incline, lean, outstanding account, pending suit, slope, tilt), inclinazione (addiction, aptitude, assessment, bend, bent, bias, cant, dip, disposition, fancy, gradient, hang, inclination, lean, liking, penchant, pitch, proclivity, proneness, propensity, slope, stoop, taste, tendency, tilt, tip), inclinarsi (cant, lean, nod, sag, tilt), deviare (baffle, deflect, deviate, divert, glance, offset, sheer, shunt, siphon, stray, switch, wander), declinazione (declension, declination, incline, tendency, trend), dare una versione distorta, apotema (apothem), angolazione (angulation). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

傾斜 (bevel, dip, inclination, list, slope). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

けいしゃ (bevel, decanting, dip, inclination, list, poultry house, slope). (various references)

Korean 

기울기. (various references)

Manx

sceau (grimace, overhang, quick look, sweep), faaney (batter, inclination, incline, rake, ski-run), cur sceau er. (various references)

Pig Latin

antslay.(various references)

Portuguese

través, posição oblíqua (obliquity), plano inclinado (skid, slide), obliquidade (incline, lay), ladeira (acclivity, ascent, bank, coast, declension, gradient, hang, hill, hillside, ramp, rise, side, slope, tilt), inclinação (addiction, appetite, bent, bias, camber, canting, climbdown, declination, declivity, descent, dip, disposal, disposition, downhill, droop, falling, fellow feeling, fondness, inclination, lean, leaning, like, liking, list, lopsidedness, motion, partiality, penchant, proclivity, propensity, ramp, recession, sag, stomach, tendency, tilt, tip, trend, vocation, will), esguelha, declive (abruptness, acclivity, cant, climbdown, declination, declivity, declivous, descent, downhill, hang, hillside, incline, lay, ramp, side, slanting, slide, sloping, tilt, weathering), censura indireta. (various references)

Romanian

se înclina (bank, bevel, decline, dip, incline, lean, list, tilt up, tip), povârniş (descent, dip, fall, glacis, inclination, ramp, scarp, slope, steep), povârni (slope), pantã (acclivity, chute, cliff, declension, declivity, descent, dip, downhill, fall, glacis, gradient, hade, inclination, incline, ramp, slope, splay, tilt, up), fi în pantã (slope), înclina (be inclined, bend, bias, bow, incline, incline to, lean against, prejudice, recline, shelve, slope, splay, stoop, tilt, yield). (various references)

Russian 

уклон (bias, deviation, dip, downgrade, draft, draught, fall, grade, gradient, incline, plane, ply, ramp, slope, taper), косить (cut, decimate, mow, mown, scythe, squint), взгляд (aspect, eyewink, glance, look, regard, view), наклонять наклон, наклонный (downhill, inclined, oblique, prone, reclinate, sideling, slanting, slantwise, sloped, sloping). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

strm (abrupt, bluff, declivous, downhill, precipitant, steep), predrasuda (preconception, prejudice, prepossession, warp), nakriviti (bend), nagnuti (bank, cant, heel, incline, lean, slope, tilt, tip), naginjati se (verge), nagib (bank, bevel, bias, camber, cant, descent, escarp, grade, gradient, heel, inclination, incline, lean, list, offset, pitch, slope, tilt, tip, weathering), kosina (bevel, descent, skew, slope), kos (awry, bevel, lop-sided, oblique, ousel, ouzel, skew, slantindicular, slanting, slantwise, sloping, traverse), izvrtati (invert), iskošen (crosscut, sidelong, slanting), gledište (aspect, facet, observation point, view, view point, viewpoint). (various references)

Spanish

sesgo (askance, askew, cant, lopsided, slanting, sloping, turn, twist, warp, wry), sesgarse, sesgar (skew, slope), través (traverse), punto de vista (angle, aspect, outlook, point of view, standpoint, viewpoint), inclinarse (bend down, bow, droop, incline, kotow, kowtow, lean forward, lean over, list, pitch, slope, stoop, tend), inclinar sobre (cant, droop, slope, tilt), inclinar (bend, bend down, bow, bow to, bow under, diffract, dispose, hang, incline, induce, inflect, lean, lean forward, list, nod, slope, stoop down, tilt, tip up), inclinacion (incline, tendency, trend), inclinación (bent, bow, careenage, desire, dip, droop, gradient, inclination, incline, inclining, item, leaning, liking, list, mind, nod, nutation, penchant, pitch, propensity, skew, slanting, slope, sloping, tilt, tilting, want). (various references)

Swedish

sluttning (cant, decline, declivity, descent, dip, downhill, fall, Hill, hillside, incline, pitch, slope), slutta (bevel, decline, dip, fall, incline, shelve, sink, slope, verge). (various references)

Thai

เอน (lollop), บิ�"เบือน (skew), ทำให้เอน, การเอียงลา�" (tilt), การบิ�"เบือน, ความคิ�"เห็น (belief, eye). (various references)

Turkish

sapmak (bear, deflect, detour, deviate, digress, diverge, diverge from, lapse, lead away from, oblique, sheer, sheer away, sheer from, sheer off, stray, swerve, swing, turn, turn aside, turn off, turn up, wander, wander off), eğrilik (camber, cast, crookedness, curvature, deviousness, obliqueness, skew, tortuosity, unevenness, warp, wryness), bakış (blink, dekko, eye, gander, glance, look, regard, view), eğiklik (inclination, obliqueness, rake, skew), eğilim (affection, aptitude, bent, bias, current, device, disposition, drift, gravitation, inclination, leaning, liability, notion, obliquity, penchant, ply, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, pulse, relish, sense, set, squint, tendency, tenor, tide, tilt, trend, turn, twist), eğilimi olmak (be disposed to, incline, squint, sway, tend), eğilimli (affected, apt, disposed, inclinable, inclined, liable, slanting, vulnerable), eğim (bevel, cant, declination, dip, elevation, fall, grade, gradient, inclination, incline, my better half, obliquity, pitch, slope, tilt, tip), çarpıtmak (angle, color, colour, contort, distort, garble, make awry, make crooked, pervert, skew, strain, torture, twist, warp, wrench, wrest, wring), eğmek (bend, bow, buckle, cant, contort, curve, decline, droop, flex, incline, incurve, inflect, ply, spring, stoop, sway, tilt, warp), yönelmek (bear, bend, face, front, head, head for, steer for, tend, trend, wend one's way), göz ucuyla bakma, meyil (affection, aptitude, bias, cant, declivity, gradient, gravitation, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, liking, obliquity, penchant, proclivity, proneness, propensity, slope, talus, tendency, tide, tilt, trend), meyilli (aslant, aslope, bias, declivitous, downhill, inclinable, inclined, leaning, oblique, on the slope, prone, skew, slanting, slantwise, sloping, subject to, tilting), meyilli olmak (batter, be inclined, lean, shelve, slope, squint, sway), meyilli yüzey, eğimli (apt, curved, declivitous, inclined, prone, sloping, tilting). (various references)

Turkmen 

gyюarmak (diverge, lean). (various references)

Ukrainian

схил (bevel, chute, declension, decline, declivity, descent, down grade, fall, grade, incidence, lean, pitch, shelving, side, skew), скісний (oblique), косо (askance, askew, aslant, aslope, athwart, awry, obliquely, sidelong, sideway, sideways, sidewise, slantwise, splay), косий промінь, косий (askew, awry, bevel, boss-eyed, cock eyed, cockeyed, cross-eyed, diagonal, oblique, sidelong, sideway, sideways, sidewise, skew, slanting, splay), нахилятися (bend, bow, cant, decline, droop, duck, lean, nod, stoop, tilt, tip, tip up), нахиляти (cant, droop, incline, lean, slope, stoop, tilt, tip, tip up), набік (awry), перекіс (cramp, skewness), падати косо. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự phê bình gián tiếp, quan điểm (position, standpoint), nghiêng (askew, asquint, over, sideling, skew, slanting, slantways, slantwise, slopewise, sloping), đường xiên. (various references)

Welsh

osgo (air, attitude, inclination, slope), goledd (slope), gogwydd (bent, bias, inclination). (various references)

biasis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "slant": slanted, slanting, slantingly, slants, slantways, slantwise, slanty. (additional references)

Words ending with "slant": aslant. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Slant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alant, ellant, islant, lant, salant, salint, sant, sellant, shant, sklent, slan, sland, S'land, slane, slanty, Slatt, slaut, slend, slent, Slint, Slonta, slunt, splant. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: alts, ants, last, lats, salt, slat, tans.

-2 letters: als, alt, ant, las, lat, sal, sat, tan, tas.

-3 letters: al, an, as, at, la, na, ta.

+1 letter: alants, aslant, instal, latens, plants, santol, slants, slanty, sultan, talons, tolans.

+2 letters: analyst, anklets, antlers, cantles, catlins, centals, daltons, dentals, elastin, eluants, entails, etalons, flaunts, gelants, hantles, install, instals, laments, lancets, lankest, lasting, lateens, latents, latinos, lattens, lattins, leanest, levants, mantels, mantles, nailset, nastily, plaints, planets, platans, platens, pulsant, ratlins, rentals, saintly, salient, saltant, saltern, saltine, salting, saltpan, sandlot, santols, scantly, sealant, slainte, slanted, slating, staling, sternal, sultana, sultans, talents, talions, tangles, tenails, tincals, tolanes, walnuts.