English language

How to pronounce slant in English?

Toggle Transcript
Type Words
Synonyms angle
Type of viewpoint, stand, point of view, standpoint
Type Words
Synonyms cant, cant over, pitch, tilt
Type of move
Has types cock


The ceiling is slanting.
Type Words
Synonyms angle, weight
Type of predetermine, bias
Type Words
Synonyms angle, lean, tilt, tip
Type of flex, bend
Has types weather, heel, incline, lean back, list, pitch, recline, slope
Type Words
Synonyms pitch, rake
Type of slope, gradient
Has types loft
Type Words
Type of lie


A scar slanted across his face.

Examples of slant

slant
Only after a winner is selected is their conservative or liberal slant revealed.
From the washingtonpost.com
Not that all science writing should have such a strong moral or political slant.
From the guardian.co.uk
Matthews being a newcomer to this level of college football, didn't run a slant.
From the kentucky.com
If you want the convenience of a resort but with a cultural slant, check around.
From the thenewstribune.com
Three plays later, McCoy found Cosby free on a slant, coming from left to right.
From the dispatch.com
Sheehan short armed a deep slant to Jermiah Kelley who had gotten behind Wilson.
From the toledoblade.com
Donovan McNabb completed an 11-yard pass to Reggie Brown, who ran a slant route.
From the philly.com
The woodwork has a slant that made it difficult to select a traditional picture.
From the ocregister.com
Has two side slant pockets and a small button pocket to keep your locker key in.
From the independent.co.uk
More examples
  • A biased way of looking at or presenting something
  • Lie obliquely; "A scar slanted across his face"
  • Pitch: degree of deviation from a horizontal plane; "the roof had a steep pitch"
  • Present with a bias; "He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders"
  • Lean: to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister"
  • Cant: heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"
  • Slant was a science fiction fanzine edited by Walt Willis in collaboration with James White. It won the retro-Hugo for Best Fanzine of 1954, awarded in 2004.
  • Slant is the predominant angle of the downward stroke in Western handwriting. A good basis for its estimation is the point of the handwritten curve where the velocity has its peak value in thendownward stroke. ...
  • Slant was the name of a Catholic magazine associated with the University of Cambridge and the Dominican Order during the 1960s, and of the group associated with this magazine. ...