Definitions for slant

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slant slant

Spelling: [slant, slahnt]

IPA: /slænt, slɑnt/

Slant is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in slant (alnst).

Definitions for slant

noun

1. slanting or oblique direction; slope:
2. a slanting line, surface, etc.
3. virgule.
4. a mental leaning, bias, or distortion:
5. viewpoint; opinion; attitude:
6. Informal. a glance or look.
7. Also called angle. Journalism. the particular mood or vein in which something is written, edited, or published:
8. Football. an offensive play in which the ball-carrier runs toward the line of scrimmage at an angle. Also called slant-in. a pass pattern in which a receiver cuts diagonally across the middle of the field.
9. Also called slant-eye [slant-ahy, slahnt-ahy] /ˈslæntˌaɪ, ˈslɑntˌaɪ/ (Show IPA). Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a person from East Asia, especially a Chinese or Japanese person.

adjective

1. sloping; oblique:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to slope.
2. to distort (information) by rendering it unfaithfully or incompletely, especially in order to reflect a particular viewpoint:
3. to write, edit, or publish for the interest or amusement of a specific group of readers:

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).

Origin of slant

First recorded in 1485-95; aphetic variant of aslant

Examples for slant

The slant of the moonlight had died off the floor, and all was dark.

Put a pencil in it, letting the pencil rest at a slant from left to right.

Emily Dickinson famously wrote, “Tell the truth but tell it slant.”

The Democratic slant extends to those receiving federal unemployment benefits.

American literature seems to want for authors of a Republican slant.

Several Libyan political factions have their own local political reasons to slant what happened on the night Stevens was killed.

A bluebottle buzzed about the ceiling; a slant of sunlight crossed the floor.

"Just a slant of rain maybe, and a puff of wind," said Csar.

In 2009, I wrote a piece for Newsweek about Berlusconi's move to "shut up" the press with a "kill the messenger" slant.

A puff of wind and a slant of rain, as I've been saying to my gel here.