to cant
3
8.0
- verb
- /kænt/
:
inclinar
- When they were down and the motor stopped, the ship stood canted at a twenty-degree angle.
- a canted head
- canted slightly
- canted forward
Examples
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The adjacent windmill canted more radically than Pisa's Leaning Tower.
Fiction book (2001) -
I want you to trot the horse around there once, and cant him around at half pace, once.
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Ya, Let's cant the wings and shorten the gear.
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Does he stand with his torso canted forward at an angle of four to seven degrees?
Fiction book (1999) -
Forty feet up the hill, towering on hind legs, she canted her head to one side, indecisive.
Fiction book (1990) -
In essence, Rocketdyne engineers removed half of the standard nozzles and canted them inward, thereby forming a central ramp or spike.
Academic text (1998) -
The tower began to cant toward the edge during the storm, making us worry it might fall.
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To improve the aerodynamics, the engineer suggested we cant the wings of the aircraft.
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She canted her head to listen better, trying to catch every word of the conversation.
Synonyms
418
1.5
To bend or rest at an angle against something
148
1.8
To move something so it leans or falls to one side
147
2.0
To move into a sloping or leaning position
53
5.1
To tilt or fall suddenly, often in a vehicle
32
8.8
To tilt to one side, often describing a ship
27
3.2
To move or turn something so it is not straight
25
3.7
To lean or tilt in one direction
9
4.8
To turn something so it sits at an angle
1
3.9
To slope up or down at an angle
To tilt to one side so it is off balance
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Etymology
Cant (verb) comes from the same old word for 'edge', and it means to set something at an angle or make it lean, like tipping a board so one edge is higher.