Definition of "slant"

slant

/ˈslɑːnt/

noun
plural slants
1. A slope; an incline, inclination.
2. A sloped surface or line.
3. (mining) A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.
4. (typography) Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text.
  Quotations
  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
5. An oblique movement or course.
6. (biology) 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.
13. (originally US) A point of view, an angle.
14. (US) A look, a glance.
  Quotations
  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
15. (US, ethnic slur, derogatory) A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.
verb
third-person singular simple present slants, present participle slanting, simple past and past participle slanted
1. (transitive, intransitive) To lean, tilt or incline.
  Quotations
  On the side of yonder slanting hill
  1753, Robert Dodsley, Agriculture
2. (transitive) To bias or skew.
3. (Scotland, intransitive) To lie or exaggerate.
adjective
1. Sloping; oblique; slanted.
  Quotations
  The Laplander beholds the far-off SunDart 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), page 308
  By the eighth day, Alexander and Caswell had lashed together a hut with a slant roof […]
  2015, Michael Z. Williamson, A Long Time Until Now

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