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Definition: Slantwise |
SlantwiseAdverb1. At a slant; moving or directed in a slantwise position or direction. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "slantwise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references) |
Crosswords: Slantwise |
| Specialty definitions using "slantwise": to scarf. (references) |
| "Slantwise" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Slantwise" is used about 4 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adverb (general) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "slantwise": slantwise writing. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "slantwise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shtrembërisht, pjerrtas (aslant, aslope), i pjerrët (arduous, bevel, declivitous, declivous, high pitched, hilly, inclined, leaning, oblique, reclinate, sideling, skew, slant, slanting, sloping). (various references) | |
Arabic | كتابة مائلة, مائل (atilt, awry, bent, bevel, bias, cock eyed, diagonal, inclined, oblique, sidelong, skew, slant, slanted, slope, sloping, stooping, thwart, titled), بميل. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | косо (awry, cockeye, obliquely, sidewards, sideways, slantways), кос (bevel, blackbird, oblique, ousel, ouzel, sidelong, sideward, sideways, skew, slantways, splay, thwart, transversal, transverse). (various references) | |
Czech | šikmo (askew, awry). (various references) | |
Danish | paakoersel skraat fra siden (cornering at points, slanting collision, taking slantwise). (various references) | |
Dutch | zijdelingse aanrijding (cornering at points, slanting collision, taking slantwise), aanrijding in de flank (cornering at points, slanting collision, taking slantwise). (various references) | |
Farsi | یک وری(slantways), بطوراریب (Sidelong). (various references) | |
French | oblique (slanting), en oblique, en biais. (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, slanting, slantwisely, sloped, sloping, sloppily, squint eyed, suspicious, transversal, weird). (various references) | |
Greek | επικλινώσ, λοξώσ (askance, asquint, bias, sideway, sideways). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אלכסו י (diagonal, oblique, slanted, thwart), באלכסון (aslant, diagonally, obliquely). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rézsútosan (aslope, obliquely, on the skew, on the slant, thwart), ferdén (askance, askew, aslant, aslope, athwart, awry, crookedly, diagonally, on the bias, on the skew, on the slant, thwart). (various references) | |
Italian | obliquamente (askance, athwart, sidelong). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 斜めに (diagonally, obliquely, slantingly). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ななめに (diagonally, obliquely, slantingly). (various references) | |
Manx | lieh-scaa (askance, aslant). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | antwiseslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | enviesadamente, de través (abreast, amidships, aslant, athwart, bias, criss-cross, crosswise), de esguelha (askew, sideling, sidelong, wry). (various references) | |
Romanian | strâmb (askew, aslant, awry, cock eyed, crooked, crookedly, curved, lop-sided, slanting, wrong, wry), cruciş (across, aslant, crossing, crosswise, hostile, squint, squinting). (various references) | |
Russian | косо (askance, askew, aslant, aslope, asquint, awry). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | koso (aslope), kos (awry, bevel, lop-sided, oblique, ousel, ouzel, skew, slant, slantindicular, slanting, sloping, traverse). (various references) | |
Spanish | oblicuamente (askance, aslant, athwart, obliquely, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise), al sesgo (bevel, oblique, skew). (various references) | |
Swedish | på sned (askew, aslant, awry, on a slant, on one side, sideways, slantways). (various references) | |
Thai | เอียง (descend, dip, heel, skew, tilt). (various references) | |
Turkish | verevlemesine (on the slant, slantways), verev (bias, on the cross, slanting), meyilli olarak (aslant, aslope, bias, slantways), meyilli (aslant, aslope, bias, declivitous, downhill, inclinable, inclined, leaning, oblique, on the slope, prone, skew, slant, slanting, sloping, subject to, tilting), çapraz (across, bias, cornerwise, crisscross, cross, crossways, crosswise, decussate, diagonal, groined, lattice, slantways, thwart, transversal, transverse, traverse). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | косо (askance, askew, aslant, aslope, athwart, awry, obliquely, sidelong, sideway, sideways, sidewise, slant, splay), похило (aslant, aslope, obliquely). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xiên (askew, asquint, bias, oblique, slanting, slantways), nghiêng (askew, asquint, over, sideling, skew, slant, slanting, slantways, slopewise, sloping), chéo; xếch (slantways). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Slantwise" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Glentaise. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-n-s-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: elastins, nailsets, salients, saltines. | |
-2 letters: awnless, elastin, enlists, entails, entasis, instals, lawines, listens, nailset, nasties, salient, salines, salties, saltine, sestina, silanes, silents, slainte, tansies, tawnies, tenails, tinsels, tisanes, waniest, winless, wintles, wisents, witless, witness. | |
-3 letters: aisles, aliens, alines, anises, assent, awless, elains, elints, enlist, entail, inlets, insets, instal, islets, istles, lassie, latens, lawine. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-n-s-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: waistlines. | |
+2 letters: wealthiness. | |
+3 letters: towardliness, windlestraws. | |
+4 letters: wealthinesses, wollastonites. | |
+5 letters: streetwalkings, towardlinesses. | |
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