slant

Meaning

Noun

1. A slope; an incline, inclination.
2. A sloped surface or line.
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.
9. A palette or similar container with slants or sloping depressions.
10. (obsolete) A sarcastic remark; shade, an indirect mocking insult.
11. (slang) An opportunity, particularly to go somewhere.
12. (slang) A crime committed for the purpose of being apprehended and transported to a major settlement.
13. A point of view, an angle.
14. A look, a glance.
15. A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.

Verb

1. To lean, tilt or incline.
2. To bias or skew.
3. To lie or exaggerate.

Adj

Sloping; oblique; slanted.

Synonyms

slope

incline

lean

tilt

bend

angle

tip

inclination

pitch

decline

list

careen

bow

🙇

skew

stoop

twist

cant

gradient

obliquity

bevel

point of view

bias

slanting

rake

incline toward

dip

cant over

leaning

declivity

bank

🏦

tint

hue

splay

sloping

lean over

tendency

lurch

nuance

oblique

trend

veer

obliqueness

viewpoint

wane

aspect

acclivity

go down

be disposed to

diagonal

heel

recline

bent

trend toward

be prone to

shade

colour

weight

sink

attitude

slash

solidus

oblique stroke

out of shape

pass

penchant

position

proclivity

prone

propensity

rakish

ruin

separatrix

shelve

shelving

shilling mark

shilling stroke

shuffle

sidelong

skid

slantwise

squander

steepness

subtlety

sway

swerve

talus

tend

thrust

tincture

tipping

tone

transverse

verge

view

virgule

warp

while away

wry

be bent

be crooked

be strained

color in

colorise

colourize

have a squint

heel over

slash mark

lean to one side

heed over

be distorted

be perverted

be gross-grained

get bent

affection

posture

cast of the eye

have a slight squint

twist away

angle towards

make alterations

rise in undulations

inclination pitch

oblique course

part

slanting view

acid

acidity

acridity

acrimony

adjust

appreciate

askew

atilt

awry

batter

be inclined

brae

camber

celebrate

chamfer

cock

cockeyed

color

colorize

colour in

colourise

concentrate on

conjugate

conjugation

crackpot

curvature

deflect

deviate

devious

distort

downhill

droop

dye

embroider

empty

facet

fall

fit

flair

flexion

forward slash

fraction

fraction bar

fudge

glance

grade

gravitate

hang up

heeling

hillside

incidence

inclined

inflect

inflection

inflexion

keel

kinky

line

listing

misrepresent

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈslɑːnt/

Etymology

Cognate with Old Norse: slent

Cognate with Swedish: slinta

Cognate with Norwegian: slenta

In summary

Late Middle English, from a variant of the earlier form dialectical 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.