to slant
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3.7
- verb
- /slænt/
:
inclinarse
- The roof of the building slants downward to allow rainwater to run off.
- slanting low
- sun slants
The afternoon sun slants into the kitchen in thin lines.
- The afternoon sun slants into the kitchen in thin lines.
- It looks really similar to that, like Marc Jacobs foundation brush where it's long on one side and then it kind of slants down.
Examples
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I think this entire room is slanted two degrees.
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Sometime during the night, when moonlight slanted through the hut's little window, a face appeared there.
Fiction book (1990) -
Everything slants down here toward the bedroom.
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The afternoon sun slants into the kitchen in thin lines.
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The day we found him, we were in a thick wood that slanted down to a brown river.
Fiction book (1992) -
The floor was slanted toward the Cove, so the water would run back out.
Fiction book (1990) -
Yesterday in church, a ray of sunlight, slanting through one of the narrow windows, rested on your face.
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Tem looked up and saw a shaft of sunlight slanting across the mouth of the hole.
Fiction book (1990) -
The early yellow sunlight slants onto the gravestones through the trees, shifting over them with the wind.
Fiction book (1992) -
The device drives seeds against a slanted surface with compressed air to shatter the hulls.
Academic text (1994)
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
27
3.2
To move or turn something so it is not straight
9
4.8
To turn something so it sits at an angle
3
8.0
To tilt something so it leans at an angle
1
3.9
To slope up or down at an angle
To lean or bend in one direction, often slowly under extra weight
To tilt to one side so it is off balance
Antonyms
Compounds
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Etymology
Slant originally meant 'to lean' and is like the simple word lean, so to slant is to slope or lean in a certain direction.