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Definition: Slanting |
SlantingAdjective1. Having an oblique or slanted direction. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "slanting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: SlantingSynonyms: aslant (adj), aslope (adj), diagonal (adj), slanted (adj), sloped (adj), sloping (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Slanting |
| English words defined with "slanting": aslant ♦ backhand, bias ♦ clip ♦ Hooke's gearing ♦ italic ♦ left-slanting, lopsidedness ♦ oblique, obliqueness, overcast ♦ shack, Sheer boom, skew, skewed, skewness, sloping, sou'wester, Sponson ♦ trail, trudge. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "slanting": attracting groyne ♦ coal spragger, cockermeg ♦ Ferraris truss ♦ log washer ♦ Newaygo screen ♦ rain hat ♦ stull piece ♦ tightrope walker. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "slanting": Plagiostomi. (references) |
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 | Under construction by James Eads, at St. Louis, Missouri, prior to October 1861. This view shows four ships being built in pairs, at two levels on the shore, with casemate side timbers largely installed. Vertical timbers extending above the slanting casemate sides are framing for the ships' paddle-wheel boxes. The four ships of this class built at St. Louis were Carondelet, Louisville, Pittsburg and Saint Louis. Note building and flagpole in the right background, timber stockpile in the foreground, and twin rudder posts at the ships' sterns with the paddle raceway between them. Credit: NAVY. |  | Farmhouse with slanting window. Windsor County, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Self portrait ( smiling )" by Annie Andre Commentary: "Picture of me. My 6 year old son was trying to be artistic in his photo taking by slanting the camera." |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Korea | One private television network has been accused of slanting its coverage of the media tax probe to support the Government. (references) |
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| "Slanting" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 65.88% of the time. "Slanting" is used about 85 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 65.88% | 56 | 45,296 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 32.94% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.18% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 85 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "slanting": slanting eyes. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "slanting": backwards-slanting, left-slanting, outward-slanting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
board slanting | 16 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "slanting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | skeef (oblique). (various references) | |
Albanian | i pjerrët (arduous, bevel, declivitous, declivous, high pitched, hilly, inclined, leaning, oblique, reclinate, sideling, skew, slant, slantwise, sloping). (various references) | |
Arabic | منحرف (askew, aslant, awry, bent, deflector, depraved, devious, errant, inclined, oblique, perverse, skew, slant, slanted, tilted), خط مائل (diagonal). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | наклонен (downhill, hanging, inclined, intent, low-grade, oblique, one sided, prone, rampant, ready, scalene, skew, slant, slantindicular, sloped, sloping, splay, supine), полегат (declivous, downhill, inclined, oblique, prone, rampant, slant, slantindicular, sloping). (various references) | |
Chinese | 斜 (ornamental, refined), 倾斜 (Canting, inclined, inclining, lean, Leaned, leaning, Leant, Oblique, raked, raking, slanted, slope, sloped, sloping). (various references) | |
Czech | naklonìný (apt, inclinable, inclined, partial, prone, shelved), šikmý (oblique, skew, slant, sloping). (various references) | |
Danish | paakoersel skraat fra siden (cornering at points, slanting collision, taking slantwise), distrikts- eller straekningssikring i blokafsnit for at forhindre sidevaerts sammenstoed med de toemte kulvognes lokomotiver (blocks to protect the section against any slanting collision with the empties locomotive). (various references) | |
Dutch | schuin (oblique, obscene, sloping), scheef (oblique). (various references) | |
Esperanto | oblikva (oblique). (various references) | |
Faeroese | skeivur (oblique), lagghallur (oblique). (various references) | |
Finnish | vino (disorted, inclined, oblique), viisto (oblique), viettävä (downhill, sloping), loiva (gently sloping), kalteva (inclined, leaning, sloping). (various references) | |
French | oblique (slantwise). (various references) | |
German | schräg (askew, aslant, at an angle, bevel, beveled, diagonal, diagonally, fishy, inclinated, inclined, leaning, oblique, obliquely, off the straight, on the bias, on the cross, on the slant, skew, slanted, slantwise, slantwisely, sloped, sloping, sloppily, squint eyed, suspicious, transversal, weird). (various references) | |
Greek | πλάγιοσ (aslant, bevel, circuitous, devious, indirect, lateral, oblique, side, sidelong), λοξόσ (askew, awry, cockeyed, crackpot, devious, kinky, oblique, rakish, sidelong, skew, slant, transverse, wry). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משופע (inclined, oblique, sloping), השתפעות. (various references) | |
Hungarian | oldalt csapódó, lejtős (aslope, inclined, leaning), dőlt (inclined, slant). (various references) | |
Indonesian | miring (askew, aslant, awry, bias, cant, careen, crazy, oblique, sloping, wry), bengot. (various references) | |
Italian | obliquo (askance, askew, cross, devious, indirect, lopsided, oblique, sidelong, sideward, sloped, sloping, slopingly, transversal, underhand, wry). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 斜面 (bevel, slanting surface, slope). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゃこう (darken, inclined shaft, pretence, shade, slanting rays of light, social intercourse, social life, speculation), しゃめん (bevel, remission, slanting surface, slope), さがりめ (decline, eyes slanting downward), よこなぐり (side blow, side sweep, slanting or driving, striking on the side). (various references) | |
Korean | 기우 (Canting, Tilting, Trending). (various references) | |
Manx | kione my lhei, kione my laaee (descending, drooping end, headlong), croghit (hanged, hung). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | antingslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | enviesado (canted, oblique, skew). (various references) | |
Romanian | strâmb (askew, aslant, awry, cock eyed, crooked, crookedly, curved, lop-sided, slantwise, wrong, wry), transversal (across, Broadways, cross, cross-cut, crosswise, transversal, transversally, transverse, transversely, traverse), pieziş (askew, aslant, asquint, awry, hostile, oblique, obliquely, scowling, splay, wry), oblic (aslant, asquint, athwart, bias, diagonal, inclined, oblique, obliquely, sidelong, skew, sloping, splay, squint, transverse), înclinat (aslope, atilt, declivous, inclinable, inclined, lop-sided, minded, oblique, overhung, prone, rising, sloping, splay, squint), în pantã (acclivous, aslope, declivous, downhill, rising, sloping, uphill). (various references) | |
Russian | косой (bevel, cock eyed, cock-eye, cross-eyed, leer, oblique, sidelong, skew, slantindicular, slantingdicular, splay, squinteyed, squint-eyed, thwart, walleyed). (various references) | |
Scottish | fiaradh (inclination, obliquity, slanting : car am). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nagnut (bevel, declivous, inclined, leaning, rakish, sideling, sloping), kos (awry, bevel, lop-sided, oblique, ousel, ouzel, skew, slant, slantindicular, slantwise, sloping, traverse), iskošen (crosscut, sidelong, slant). (various references) | |
Spanish | inclinado (bowed, inclinable, inclined, induced, leaned, oblique, slanted, sloped, tilted, wanted, wrong). (various references) | |
Swedish | sned (askew, cock eyed, cockeyed, crooked, lop-sided, oblique, sidelong, skew, wry). (various references) | |
Turkish | verev (bias, on the cross, slantwise), meyilli (aslant, aslope, bias, declivitous, downhill, inclinable, inclined, leaning, oblique, on the slope, prone, skew, slant, slantwise, sloping, subject to, tilting), eğri (aslant, aslope, awry, bent, cambered, cockeyed, crooked, curve, graph, oblique, out of the straight, sinuous, skew, skewed, sloping, slouching, slouchy, tortuous, trajectory, untrue, warped, wry), eğilimli (affected, apt, disposed, inclinable, inclined, liable, slant, vulnerable), eğik (bevel, drooping, droopy, inclined, leaning, oblique, on the slope, skewed, sloping, threshold). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gyяa (oblique), зasy (oblique, squinty-eyed). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | косий (askew, awry, bevel, boss-eyed, cock eyed, cockeyed, cross-eyed, diagonal, oblique, sidelong, sideway, sideways, sidewise, skew, slant, splay), похилий (askew, aslope, canting, declining, downhill, inclined, oblique, prone, sidelong, sloping). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xiên (askew, asquint, bias, oblique, slantways, slantwise), nghiêng (askew, asquint, over, sideling, skew, slant, slantways, slantwise, slopewise, sloping). (various references) | |
Welsh | lleddf (flat, minor, plaintive). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | plagios. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | obliquae, obliquas, obliquus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "slanting": slantingly. (additional references) | |
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"Slanting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lanting, Salentin, salmantina, santing, slantings, Sranang. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "slanting" (pronounced sla"nting) |
| 6 | -l a" n t i ng | implanting, planting, replanting, supplanting, transplanting. |
| 5 | -a" n t i ng | chanting, decanting, enchanting, granting, panting, ranting, recanting. |
| 4 | -n t i ng | appointing, accenting, accounting, amounting, augmenting, blunting, bunting, cementing, circumventing, commenting, complementing, complimenting, confronting, consenting, counting, daunting, denting, disappointing, discounting, disorienting, dissenting, documenting, experimenting, fainting, fermenting, fingerprinting, flaunting, fomenting, fragmenting, fronting, glinting, grunting, haunting, hinting, hunting, implementing, imprinting, inventing, lamenting, minting, misrepresenting, mounting, painting, parenting, patenting, pinpointing, pointing, presenting, preventing, printing, recounting, reinventing, relenting, renting, repainting, representing, reprinting, resenting, shunting, sprinting, squinting, supplementing, surmounting, tainting, taunting, tenting, tormenting, unrelenting, unstinting, venting, wanting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | annotating, anticipating, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, accosting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, arresting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, assisting, associating, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bursting, busting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, casting, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, citing, clotting, coagulating, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, completing, complicating, composting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, congratulating, connecting, consisting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, delisting, demonstrating, denigrating, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, digesting, diluting, directing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discrediting, discriminating, disgusting, disintegrating, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, dusting, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, everlasting, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, existing, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fascinating, fasting, faulting, feasting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, firefighting, fitting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fretting, frosting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, gloating, graduating, grafting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, humiliating, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implicating, importing, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingesting, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, investigating, investing, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, laminating, lasting, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, listing, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, lusting, malting, mandating, manifesting, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, nesting, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, parachuting, participating, parting, pasting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pirating, pitting, placating, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, posting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, preexisting, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, readjusting, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recasting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinvesting, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, repatriating, repeating, replicating, reporting, repudiating, requesting, rerouting, resisting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, rusting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, suggesting, superconducting, supporting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, targeting, tasting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, terminating, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, toasting, tolerating, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unremitting, unseating, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-l-n-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: antings, lasting, linsang, salting, slating, staling, staning. | |
-2 letters: algins, aligns, anting, gainst, gaslit, giants, glints, instal, lasing, liangs, ligans, lingas, saning, sating, signal. | |
-3 letters: agist, algin, align, alist, angst, anils, antis, gains, gaits, giant, gilts, glans, glias, glint, gnats, liang, ligan, linga, lings, linns, lints, litas, nails, saint, satin, slain, slang, slant, sling. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-l-n-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: bantlings, gantlines, mantlings, plantings, scantling. | |
+2 letters: alignments, eglantines, galantines, insolating, installing, insulating, langostino, scantlings, signalment, slantingly, strangling. | |
+3 letters: agglutinins, angulations, antifungals, disentangle, dismantling, displanting, elongations, intangibles, langostinos, langoustine, lastingness, linecasting, misplanting, postlanding, signalments, sulfonating, supplanting, tantalising, translating, ungainliest, unstartling. | |
+4 letters: alloantigens, astoundingly, astringently, centralising, congelations, desalinating, disentailing, disentangled, disentangles, geanticlines, goaltendings, granulations, inosculating, insufflating, italianising, langbeinites, langoustines, languishment, linecastings, longstanding, misalignment, naturalising, nauseatingly, neutralising, nightingales, realignments, reinstalling, sandblasting, stonewalling, streamlining, tangibleness, transvaluing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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