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SLANT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Degree of deviation from a horizontal plane

Example:

the roof had a steep pitch

Synonyms:

pitch; rake; slant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("slant" is a kind of...):

gradient; slope (the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "slant"):

loft ((golf) the backward slant on the head of some golf clubs that is designed to drive the ball high in the air)

Derivation:

slant (heel over)

slant (to incline or bend from a vertical position)

slant (lie obliquely)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A biased way of looking at or presenting something

Synonyms:

angle; slant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("slant" is a kind of...):

point of view; stand; standpoint; viewpoint (a mental position from which things are viewed)

Derivation:

slant (present with a bias)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Present with a bias

Example:

He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders

Synonyms:

angle; slant; weight

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "slant" is one way to...):

bias; predetermine (cause to be biased)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

slant (a biased way of looking at or presenting something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Heel over

Example:

The ceiling is slanting

Synonyms:

cant; cant over; pitch; slant; tilt

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "slant" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "slant"):

cock (tilt or slant to one side)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

slant (degree of deviation from a horizontal plane)

Sense 3

Meaning:

To incline or bend from a vertical position

Example:

She leaned over the banister

Synonyms:

angle; lean; slant; tilt; tip

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "slant" is one way to...):

bend; flex (form a curve)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "slant"):

incline; pitch; slope (be at an angle)

weather (cause to slope)

heel; list (tilt to one side)

lean back; recline (move the upper body backwards and down)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

slant (degree of deviation from a horizontal plane)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Lie obliquely

Example:

A scar slanted across his face

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "slant" is one way to...):

lie (be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

slant (degree of deviation from a horizontal plane)

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 Context examples: 

And that was plainly the last signal of danger, for the buccaneers turned at once and ran, separating in every direction, one seaward along the cove, one slant across the hill, and so on, so that in half a minute not a sign of them remained but Pew.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You can never guess the ways iv him. ’Tis just as you’re thinkin’ you know him and are makin’ a favourable slant along him, that he whirls around, dead ahead and comes howlin’ down upon you and a-rippin’ all iv your fine-weather sails to rags.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

With upraised forefinger and slanting head, he stood listening.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a large, stately apartment, with purple chairs and curtains, a Turkey carpet, walnut-panelled walls, one vast window rich in slanted glass, and a lofty ceiling, nobly moulded.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

If I do but close my eyes now, I can see the light upon his proud, handsome face, and see also my dear father, concerned at having touched upon so terrible a memory, shooting little slanting glances at him betwixt the puffs of his pipe.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I stood in a window, and looked across the ancient street at the opposite houses, recalling how I had watched them on wet afternoons, when I first came there; and how I had used to speculate about the people who appeared at any of the windows, and had followed them with my eyes up and down stairs, while women went clicking along the pavement in pattens, and the dull rain fell in slanting lines, and poured out of the water-spout yonder, and flowed into the road.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Down the slanting road there was riding a big, burly man, clad in a tunic of purple velvet and driving a great black horse as hard as it could gallop.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As she looked full at me, I saw her face grow sharper and paler, and the marks of the old wound lengthen out until it cut through the disfigured lip, and deep into the nether lip, and slanted down the face.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Some three feet lower, however, his eye lit upon a long jagged crack which slanted downwards, and this he must reach if he would save not only his own poor life, but that of the eight-score men above him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They strode on either side, each with an ear slanting towards him, but ere he had come to the end of his story the bowman had spun round upon his heel, and was hastening back the way they had come, breathing loudly through his nose.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)