slant

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• IPA: /ˈslænt/
• Rhymes: -ænt

Noun

slant (plural slants)

1. A slope or incline.

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

2. A bias, tendency, or leaning; a perspective or angle.

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

3. (pejorative, ethnic slur) A person of East Asian descent, supposed to have slanting eyes.
4. (obsolete) An oblique reflection or gibe; a sarcastic remark.

Translations

slope or incline

• Bulgarian: наклон (bg) (naklòn) m
• Chinese: 斜坡 (xie po)
• Finnish: rinne (fi)
• French: biais (fr) f

• German: Schräge f
• Italian: pendenza (it) f, inclinazione (it) f, pendio (it) m
• Serbo-Croatian: nagib (sh), kosina (sh)
• Spanish: inclinación (es) f

bias

• Chinese: 偏见 (pian jian)
• Finnish: näkökulma (fi), asenne (fi)
• French: connotation (fr) f

• German: einseitige Ausrichtung f
• Serbo-Croatian: nagib (sh), kosina (sh)

pejorative: person of Asian descent

• Finnish: vinosilmä (fi)

• French: (man) bridé (fr) m, (woman) bridée (fr) f
• Italian: occhi a mandorla (it)

Verb

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

1. To lean, tilt or incline.

   If you slant the track a little more, the marble will roll down it faster.

   • Dodsley

     On the side of yonder slanting hill.

2. To bias or skew.

   The group tends to slant its policies in favor of the big businesses it serves.

Translations

to lean, slope or incline

• Finnish: viettää (fi)
• French: incliner (fr), pencher (fr)

• German: abschrägen, neigen
• Italian: inclinare, pendere (it)
• Maori: tītaha (mi)

to bias or skew

• Finnish: painottaa (fi), suunnata (fi)
• French: biaiser (fr)

• German: einseitig ausrichten
• Serbo-Croatian: naginjati (sh)

Derived terms

• aslant

Anagrams

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