slant

[slant, slahnt] /slænt, slɑnt/
verb (used without object)
1.
to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
2.
to have or be influenced by a subjective point of view, bias, personal feeling or inclination, etc. (usually followed by toward).
verb (used with object)
3.
to cause to slope.
4.
to distort (information) by rendering it unfaithfully or incompletely, especially in order to reflect a particular viewpoint:
He slanted the news story to discredit the Administration.
5.
to write, edit, or publish for the interest or amusement of a specific group of readers:
a story slanted toward young adults.
noun
6.
slanting or oblique direction; slope:
the slant of a roof.
7.
a slanting line, surface, etc.
8.
virgule.
9.
a mental leaning, bias, or distortion:
His mind shows a curious slant.
10.
viewpoint; opinion; attitude:
Let him give you his slant.
11.
Informal. a glance or look.
12.
Also called angle. Journalism. the particular mood or vein in which something is written, edited, or published:
His column always has a humorous slant.
13.
Football.
  1. an offensive play in which the ball-carrier runs toward the line of scrimmage at an angle.
  2. Also called slant-in. a pass pattern in which a receiver cuts diagonally across the middle of the field.
14.
Also called slant-eye
[slant-ahy, slahnt-ahy] /ˈslæntˌaɪ, ˈslɑntˌaɪ/ (Show IPA). Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. an Oriental person, especially a Chinese or Japanese.
adjective
15.
sloping; oblique:
a slant roof; a slant approach.
Origin
1485-95; aphetic variant of aslant
Related forms
slantingly, slantly, adverb
unslanted, adjective
unslanting, adjective
Synonyms
1. lean, incline. See slope. 6. incline, inclination, pitch, obliquity, obliqueness.
Examples from the web for slant
  • The direction of the slant of a line drawn from the outer corner of the eye to the inner corner is known as the palpebral slant.
  • Plus, you put your own slant on the ideas that makes them interesting.
  • But there may be a slant here which has nothing to do with science.
  • Over the centuries engineers and builders made efforts to correct the lean using schemes that only made the tower slant farther.
  • The hood's gotten shorter and the windshield's got more slant.
  • If you've got the slant called, you've got to run the slant.
  • Peers form social groups that slant evaluations toward the preferences of their social leadership.
  • Unfortunately the views expressed often seem to slant towards its covert agenda.
  • Unless you draw a line along the steering column and down the forks, at a slant to the ground.
  • Over time, the editorial slant went away from science to global warming propaganda.
British Dictionary definitions for slant

slant

/slɑːnt/
verb
1.
to incline or be inclined at an oblique or sloping angle
2.
(transitive) to write or present (news, etc) with a bias
3.
(intransitive) foll by towards. (of a person's opinions) to be biased
noun
4.
an inclined or oblique line or direction; slope
5.
a way of looking at something
6.
a bias or opinion, as in an article
7.
a less technical name for solidus
8.
on a slant, on the slant, sloping
adjective
9.
oblique, sloping
Derived Forms
slanting, adjective
slantingly, slantly, adverb
Word Origin
C17: short for aslant, probably of Scandinavian origin
Word Origin and History for slant
v.

1520s, "to strike obliquely" (against something), alteration of slenten "slip sideways" (c.1300), perhaps via a Scandinavian source (cf. Swedish slinta "to slip," Norwegian slenta "to fall on one side"), from Proto-Germanic *slintanan. Intransitive sense of "to slope, to lie obliquely" is first recorded 1690s; transitive sense of "to give a sloping direction to" is from 1805. Related: Slanted; slanting. As an adverb from late 15c.; as an adjective from 1610s. Slant rhyme attested from 1944.

n.

1650s, "an oblique direction or plane" (originally of landforms), from slant (v.). Meaning "a way of regarding something" is from 1905. Derogatory slang sense of "a slant-eyed Asian person" is recorded from 1943, from earlier slant-eyes (1929).

Slang definitions & phrases for slant

slant

noun
  1. An opinion or point of view; angle: something about his tone or his ''slant'' that irritated his contemporaries (1905+)
  2. A look; an ocular inspection: Take a slant at dat/ The prowl car takes a slant down now and then (1911+)