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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



... he had heard it, that she might not be somewhere near calling to him in distress. He opened the door and looked into the hall—not a sound. At the foot of the stairs the light from his mother's room fell across the darkness in a golden slant. He turned and went to the window. His awakening had been so startling, his sense of revelation so acute, that for the moment he had no consciousness of prohibiting conditions. When he looked out of the window ...
— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner
... Marne had jog-trotted down this slope, but now he was a new man with an eye which saw all things and a gun which could not fail. Figures, singularly tiny and singularly distinct, swarmed into the street from nowhere, men on horses, men swinging into saddles; here and there the slant light of the afternoon twinkled on gun barrels, and ludicrous thin voices came piping up the hill. As he reached the nether lip of Murphy's Pass a small cavalcade detached itself from the main mass before Captain Lorrimer's saloon and swept down the street, first a dusty ...
— The Seventh Man • Max Brand
... the Marxist mythology," Fay protested. "Gussy, you've got a completely wrong slant on Tickler. It's true that most of our mass sales so far, bar government and army, have been to large companies purchasing for ...
— The Creature from Cleveland Depths • Fritz Reuter Leiber
... kindly upon the foothills, which stepped down from the peaks to the valley lands, it was because they meant an easy descent. Riley took thorough stock of his surroundings, for it was a new country. Yonder, where the slant sun glanced and blinked on windows, must be Sour Creek; and there was the road to town jagging across the ...
— The Rangeland Avenger • Max Brand
... little island castle in the wet marsh, cosey and dry. It was my first savanna sparrow's nest, whether eastern or western. The miniature cottage was placed under a fragment of dried cattle excrement, which made a slant roof over it, protecting it from the hot rays of the sun. Sunken slightly into the ground, the nest's rim was flush with the short grass, while the longer stems rose about it in a green, filmy wall or stockade. The holdings of the pretty cup were ...
— Birds of the Rockies • Leander Sylvester Keyser


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