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Slant   /slænt/   Listen
noun
Slant  n.  
1.
A slanting direction or plane; a slope; as, it lies on a slant.
2.
An oblique reflection or gibe; a sarcastic remark.
Slant or wind, a local variation of the wind from its general direction.


verb
Slant  v. t.  To turn from a direct line; to give an oblique or sloping direction to; as, to slant a line.


Slant  v. i.  (past & past part. slanted; pres. part. slanting)  To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope. "On the side of younder slanting hill."


adjective
Slant  adj.  Inclined from a direct line, whether horizontal or perpendicular; sloping; oblique. "The slant lightning."





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"Slant" Quotes from Famous Books



... move was to arrange the knife so that it would give a drawing cut, or come down on a slant, rather than a rigid descent. This is the principle on which most book and paper ...
— The Building of a Book • Various
... noticed specially was how his mouth went sideways when he talked, so one side of it seemed to slant the same as his moustache, like, ...
— Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... went on the rider. "I took a slant through my glasses, and what d'yuh suppose I seen? There, as big as life, was old Beef Bissell an' Red Tarken, and a lot more o' them cowmen. How they ever got there I dunno, but it's worth figurin' out ...
— The Free Range • Francis William Sullivan
... real cedar wood—the wood of which fiddles are made. At least, that is what I was told at school. The sofa had one fault, and this fault was, in reality, a good quality. For instance, when one sat on it one could not get up off it again because it stood a little on the slant. One side was higher than the other, and in the middle there was a hole. And the good thing about our sofa was that no one wanted to sit on it, and it was put away in a corner, to ...
— Jewish Children • Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich
... said he presently, "is that this constant sliding over the surface of the Tube will dull my claws. You see, this hole isn't straight down, but on a steep slant, and so instead of tumbling freely through the air I must skate along the Tube. Fortunately, there is a file in my tool-kit, and if my claws get dull they ...
— Tik-Tok of Oz • L. Frank Baum


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