slant
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3.4
- noun
- /slænt/
:
pendiente
- The mortarboard is at a rakish slant, its tassel swinging like her earrings.
- slant of light
- agar slant
When we're talking about surface area and we have slants, we want to use the slant heights.
- When we're talking about surface area and we have slants, we want to use the slant heights.
- And here you've once again got the slanted side to your sponge, but you've got then a shorter slant on the other side.
- No, the shape is exactly like the lip butters where it twists up, it has a nice slant.
- And the reason for that is that of course, we want to be able to deal with rotation, scaling, aspect ratio changes, slant, whatever.
- It's bumpy along the top, but it's and it kind of goes down into like a bit of a kind of like slant on the sides and then it's very flat along the bottom.
- What we're going to do is we're going to learn about slant asymptotes.
- Like stiff, won't hold the curl, short slant straight down.
- Standing uneven, a slant in the street like the corner mutterer covered with a quilt, bloated with poisonous fill.
Examples
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The setting sun leaked through the glass doors at a slant and cast its rays on the cage.
Fiction book (2001) -
I kept rereading the letter, admiring every curl and slant in the calligraphically drawn letters.
Fiction book (2002) -
Dark, except for a slant of light from the hall outside the open bedroom door.
Fiction book (1997) -
The waves came no longer at a slant but straight in at the sea wall.
Fiction book (1993) -
The only indication that we were in trouble was the slant of the deck.
Fiction book (1999) -
The front steps sagged to a slant, the last step splintering at the small brown lawn.
Fiction book (1990) -
My knees were aching with each step along the increasingly steep upward slant of the road.
Academic text (2002) -
And through the unwashed windows, light slants into the schoolroom, where the day will pass slowly.
Fiction book (2002) -
The roof has a steep slant that helps prevent snow accumulation in winter.
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As we climbed higher, the trail had a noticeable slant that made the hike more challenging.
Synonyms
69
3.2
How much a line or surface tilts from flat ground
16
4.6
How steep a slope, road, or ground surface is
12
2.8
A slant away from a straight or level position
8
5.7
How steep a surface or road is
5
5.4
The slope of a roof, road, or surface
5
6.3
The angle or tilt of something compared with a flat line
1
7.7
The angle of a surface that slopes away from horizontal, like a roof
1
9.1
A slope that goes down
How far an object leans from a straight up or straight across line
The tilt of a line measured counterclockwise from the positive x-axis
A line or surface that is at an angle to others
Antonyms
Compounds
How Steep
Surface Forms
Etymology
Slant comes from an old Germanic word like lean meaning 'to tilt', so people used it for things that are not flat. That's why slant means an incline or slope.