SLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slant mean? 

• SLANT (noun)
  The noun SLANT has 2 senses:

1. a biased way of looking at or presenting something

2. degree of deviation from a horizontal plane

  Familiarity information: SLANT used as a noun is rare.

• SLANT (verb)
  The verb SLANT has 4 senses:

1. lie obliquely

2. present with a bias

3. to incline or bend from a vertical position

4. heel over

  Familiarity information: SLANT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A biased way of looking at or presenting something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

angle; slant

Hypernyms ("slant" is a kind of...):

point of view; stand; standpoint; viewpoint (a mental position from which things are viewed)

Derivation:

slant (present with a bias)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Degree of deviation from a horizontal plane

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

pitch; rake; slant

Context example:

the roof had a steep pitch

Hypernyms ("slant" is a kind of...):

gradient; slope (the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "slant"):

loft ((golf) the backward slant on the head of some golf clubs that is designed to drive the ball high in the air)

Derivation:

slant (heel over)

slant (to incline or bend from a vertical position)

slant (lie obliquely)

• SLANT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they slant    ... he / she / it slants   
Past simple: slanted   
Past participle: slanted   
-ing form: slanting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lie obliquely

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

A scar slanted across his face

Hypernyms (to "slant" is one way to...):

lie (be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

slant (degree of deviation from a horizontal plane)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Present with a bias

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

angle; slant; weight

Context example:

He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders

Hypernyms (to "slant" is one way to...):

bias; predetermine (cause to be biased)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

slant (a biased way of looking at or presenting something)

Sense 3

Meaning:

To incline or bend from a vertical position

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

angle; lean; slant; tilt; tip

Context example:

She leaned over the banister

Hypernyms (to "slant" is one way to...):

bend; flex (form a curve)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "slant"):

incline; pitch; slope (be at an angle)

weather (cause to slope)

heel; list (tilt to one side)

lean back; recline (move the upper body backwards and down)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

slant (degree of deviation from a horizontal plane)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Heel over

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

cant; cant over; pitch; slant; tilt

Context example:

The ceiling is slanting

Hypernyms (to "slant" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "slant"):

cock (tilt or slant to one side)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

slant (degree of deviation from a horizontal plane)

 Context examples 

From the centre of this branch there hung a man, with his head at a horrid slant to his body and his toes just touching the ground.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Backward, from the apex, his head slanted down to his neck and forward it slanted uncompromisingly to meet a low and remarkably wide forehead.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

His arms were long and slingy, his shoulders loose and yet powerful, with the downward slant which is a surer index of power than squareness can be.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Slanting or inclined in direction or course or position; neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angular.

(Oblique, NCI Thesaurus)

Then he crept to the door of the bedroom, and stood with slanting head listening intently.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At an angle; having an oblique or slanted direction.

(Diagonal, NCI Thesaurus)

The second picture contained for foreground only the dim peak of a hill, with grass and some leaves slanting as if by a breeze.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The hair of this man was long and matted, and his head slanted back under it from the eyes.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Other fronts in similar wave trains tilt significantly with respect to the orientation of the wave train, and still other wave trains follow slanted or meandering paths.

(NASA's Juno Mission Detects Jupiter Wave Trains, NASA)

I was in the height of my fever when a man entered and whispered to the clerk, who presently slanted me off the scale, and pushed me over to him, as if I were weighed, bought, delivered, and paid for.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)