Meaning

15 senses
  1. A slope; an incline, inclination.

    The house was built on a bit of a slant and was never quite level.

    Schräge, Hang, Abhang

    укло́нuklón, накло́нnaklón, склонsklon

  2. A sloped surface or line.

    Schräge, Hang, Abhang

  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.

  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.

    Näpfchen

  9. A palette or similar container with slants or sloping depressions.

  10. (slang)An opportunity, particularly to go somewhere.

  11. (Australia, slang)A crime committed for the purpose of being apprehended and transported to a major settlement.

  12. A point of view, an angle.

    It was a well written article, but it had a bit of a leftist slant.

    Tendenz, Neigung, Ausrichtung

    укло́нuklón, тенде́нцияtɛndɛ́ncija

More definitions
  • a biased way of looking at or presenting something
  • degree of deviation from a horizontal plane

Examples

7 sentences
  1. Tom has slanted eyes.

  2. This newspaper has no political slant.

    ruУ этой газеты нет политического уклона. — Wezel

    deDiese Zeitung hat keine politische Ausrichtung. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  3. When is the slant-eyed geezer coming?

  4. His handwriting slants forwards, whereas hers slants backwards.

    deSeine Handschrift neigt sich vorwärts, die ihre hingegen rückwärts. — Yorwba

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  5. Run a slant route to the 30-yard line.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
slope or incline:
bias:
Deutsch
By meaning 6
slope or incline:
sloped surface or line:
depression with sloping bottom to hold watercolors:
sarcastic remark; indirect mocking insult:
bias:
look, glance:

Origin

Late Middle English, from a variant of the earlier form dialectal slent, from Old Norse or

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.

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Forms

plural: slants
Singularslant
Pluralslants

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a biased way of looking at or presenting something:angle
  • degree of deviation from a horizontal plane:pitchrake

Word family

19 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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