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slant

UK/ˈslɑːnt/

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Midlands/ˈslant/

slant noun: a slope; an incline, inclination.

Noun

slant (plural slants)

  1. A slope; an incline, inclination.
    • The house was built on a bit of a slant and was never quite level.
  2. A sloped surface or line.
  3. A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.
  4. Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text.
    • Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.[1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation, page 240
    Synonyms:
    slash, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text
  5. An oblique movement or course.
  6. A sloping surface in a culture medium.
  7. A pan with a sloped bottom used for holding paintbrushes.
  8. A depression on a palette with a sloping bottom for holding and mixing watercolours.
  9. A palette or similar container with slants or sloping depressions.
  10. (US, obsolete) A sarcastic remark; shade, an indirect mocking insult.
  11. (slang) An opportunity, particularly to go somewhere.
  12. (Australia, slang) A crime committed for the purpose of being apprehended and transported to a major settlement.
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  1. A point of view, an angle.
    • It was a well written article, but it had a bit of a leftist slant.
    Synonyms:
    bias
  2. (US) A look, a glance.
    • All batters looked alike to him—I don't believe he ever took a slant at the averages;1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post
    • `What do you want?' `Just a slant at the weapon,' said Fenner.1920 June, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 213, column 1
  3. (US, derogatory, ethnic, slur) A person with epicanthi, particularly an East Asian.

Verb

slant (third-person singular simple present slants, present participle slanting, simple past and past participle slanted)

  1. (ambitransitive) To lean, tilt or incline.
    • If you slant the track a little more, the marble will roll down it faster.
    • On the side of yonder slanting hill1753, Robert Dodsley, Agriculture
    Synonyms:
    pitch, rake
  2. (transitive) To bias or skew.
    • a magazine slanted toward the youth market
    • The group tends to slant its policies in favor of the big businesses it serves.
  3. (Scotland, intransitive) To lie or exaggerate.

Adjective

slant

  1. Sloping; oblique; slanted.
    • The Laplander beholds the far-off Sun
      Dart his slant beam on unobeying snows, […]1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Destiny of Nations
    • A slant ray of golden sunshine entered the chamber; it drew nearer and nearer as the hour went by, till it fell on Guido's bed.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 308

slant meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

slant in Tamil

அடிதொட்டி, சாய்மம்

slant in Urdu

ڈھلوان

slant in Bengali

হেলানো, তির্যকভাবে থাকা

slant in Malayalam

incline, slope, tilt
ചരിയുക, കീഴോട്ടുചരിഞ്ഞിരിക്കുക, ഏങ്കോണായി കിടക്കുക, ചായുക, കോടുക, ചരിഞ്ഞിരിക്കുക
distort, bias, twist
ചായ്വുണ്ടാകുക, പക്ഷപാതമുണ്ടായിരിക്കുക, ഏകപക്ഷീയമായിരിക്കുക, വളച്ചൊടിക്കുക, വക്രീകരിക്കുക, തിരിക്കുക
tilt, slope, incline
ചായ്വ്, ചരിവ്, ചരു, ചരുവ്, ചരിച്ചിൽ, ചരിച്ചൽ
viewpoint, point of view, standpoint
ചായ്വ്, പക്ഷം, വീക്ഷണഗതി, കാഴ്ചപ്പാട്, നോട്ടപ്പാട്, ദൃഷ്ടികോണം
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slant in Kannada
ಮಾಲ, ಓರೆ
slant in Assamese
কাতি হোৱা kati hüa, কাতি কৰা kati kora

Examples of slant in a sentence

  • The slanting of the hill was too steep for safe skiing.
  • The news report was slanted in favor of the nationalists.
  • “Imouto sae Ireba Ii” - Adaptation of a light novel with a strong siscon slant.

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Synonyms of slant

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Forms of slant

Noun
pluralslants
Verb
third-person singular presentslants
present participleslanting
past participleslanted
pastslanted

Past tense of slant: slanted

Plural of slant: slants

Origin of slant

Late Middle English, from a variant of the earlier form dialectal slent, from Old Norse or another North Germanic source, cognate with Old Norse slent, Swedish slinta (“to slip”), Norwegian slenta (“to fall on the side”), from Proto-Germanic *slintaną. Probably influenced by aslant.

Words formed from slant

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Words that rhyme with slant

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Questions about slant

What does slant mean?
Slant means a slope; an incline, inclination.
What is slant in Tamil?
Slant in Tamil is அடிதொட்டி, சாய்மம். See Slant meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is slant?
Slant can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce slant?
Slant is pronounced /ˈslɑːnt/ (UK).
What is the plural of slant?
The plural of slant is slants.

Words near slant in the dictionary

  1. slanks
  2. slannish
  3. slans
  4. slanshack
  5. slanshacks
  6. slant
  7. slant bar
  8. slant bars
  9. slant distance
  10. slant distances
  11. slant height

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slant (page history and authors); slant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); slant (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); slant (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); slant (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); slant (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); কাতি কৰা (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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