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# slant

«slant» in Mova's school dictionary: **a line or surface that slopes, not straight up or flat** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a slant, slants); verb (slant, slants, slanted, slanting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A slant is a line or surface that slopes, not straight up or flat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slant/#m1)

2) To slant means to lean or slope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slant/#m2)

3) A slant is also a particular way of seeing or telling something, sometimes unfairly, like a story with a slant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slant/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In handwriting lessons letters may slant to the right; in maths slanted lines are diagonal or oblique. In media lessons a news story with a slant favours one side. Phrases: «at a slant», «slanted writing», «a new slant on».

### examples

- Her handwriting slants to the right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slant/#x1)
- The rain fell at a slant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slant/#x2)
- The roof slants down to the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slant/#x3)
- Draw a slanted line from corner to corner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slant/#x4)
- The sun's rays slanted through the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slant/#x5)
- The article had a slant towards one team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slant/#x6)
- He gave the old story a fresh slant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slant/#x7)
- So the drakling wriggled through the hole, and began to crawl faster and faster down the slanting shaft that leads to the fire in the middle of the earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slant/#x8)

### note

Regular verb. Similar words: slope, lean, tilt. In maths a slanting line is also called a diagonal or oblique line. Pronounced SLANT (UK often SLAHNT).

### In the corpora

- [Sunlight that falls at a slant spreads over more ground, so it warms each piece of ground less.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/2-seasons-and-the-tilt/12/)
- [The polar zones are cold all year because the Sun's rays strike them at a low slant.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/16-climate-zones/7/)
- [The polar lands are cold because sunlight reaches them at a low slant, and white ice reflects most of it back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands/6/)
- [By His breath the heavens are serene; His hand hath pierced the slant serpent.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.668/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «slant» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slant/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.