Dictionary Definition
slant
Noun
1 a biased way of looking at or presenting
something [syn: angle]
Verb
1 lie obliquely; "A scar slanted across his
face"
2 present with a bias; "He biased his
presentation so as to please the share holders" [syn: angle, weight]
3 to incline or bend from a vertical position;
"She leaned over the banister" [syn: lean, tilt, tip, angle]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
Translations
A bias
- Chinese: 偏见 (pian jian)
- Finnish: näkökulma, asenne
- French: connotation
- German: einseitige Ausrichtung
Verb
Translations
To lean, slope or incline
- French: pencher
- German: abschrägen
To bias or skew
- French: biaiser
- German: einseitig ausrichten
Derived terms
Extensive Definition
Slant can refer to:
- Bias or other non-objectivity in journalism, politics, academia or other fields
- Slant (route), an American football play pattern.
- slant (handwriting), an attribute of Western handwriting
- Slant (journal), a Catholic journal
- Slant Magazine, a film, TV, and music review website
- Slant (fanzine), a fanzine by Walt Willis, winner of the 1954 Retrospective Hugo Award for Best Fanzine
- A racial slur for people of Asian descent, in reference to the shape of their eyes.
- The Slant, a student humor magazine at Vanderbilt University
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Anschauung, aberrancy, aberration, across, action, aim, anagnorisis, angle, angle of vision, angularity, animus, approach, aptitude, architectonics, architecture, argument, ascend, aslant, aslope, aspect, athwart, atilt, atmosphere, attitude, background, bank, basis, belie, bend, bendwise, bent, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, biaswise, blink, branching off, burlesque, camber, camouflage, cant, canting, careen, careening, caricature, cast, catastrophe, catercorner, catercornered, character, characterization,
circuitousness,
climb, color, complication, concentrate, configuration, constitution, continuity, contrivance, corner, crook, crossways, crosswise, curve, cut, cut across, cut crosswise,
declination,
decline, deflection, denouement, departure, descend, design, detour, development, deviance, deviancy, deviate, deviation, device, deviousness, diagonal, diagonalize, diathesis, digression, dip, direct, direction, discursion, disguise, disposition, distort, divagation, divarication, diverge, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, dress up, drift, drifting, drop, eccentricity, effect, eidolon, embellish, embroider, episode, errantry, exaggerate, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, eye, fable, facet, fall, fall away, fall off, falling
action, falsify,
fashion, feature, figure, flash, focus, footing, form, frame of reference, framework, fudge, garble, gestalt, gild, gimmick, glance, glimpse, gloss, gloss over, go downhill, go
uphill, grade, gradient, grain, guise, hairpin, half an eye, heel, idea, idiosyncrasy, image, imago, impression, incident, inclination, inclinational, inclinatory, incline, inclined, inclining, indirection, individualism, influence, keel, kidney, kittycorner, lean, leaning, leaning tower, light, likeness, line, lineaments, list, listing, local color, look, make, makeup, manner, mask, mental outlook, mental set,
mettle, mind, mind-set, miscite, miscolor, misconstrue, misdirect, misinterpret, misquote, misrender, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, misteach, misuse, mold, mood, motif, movement, mythos, nature, oblique, oblique angle, oblique
figure, oblique line, obliquely, obliquity, one-sidedness,
orient, out of plumb, out
of square, outlook,
overdraw, overstate, parody, partiality, peek, peep, pererration, peripeteia, pervert, phase, phasis, pitch, pitched, place, plan, plot, point, point of view, position, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, proclivity, propensity, quick sight,
rake, raking, rambling, ramp, rapid glance, recline, recognition, recumbent, reference, reference system,
regard, respect, retreat, rhomboid, rise, rising action, scheme, scratch comma, secondary
plot, seeming, semblance, separatrix, set, shape, sheer, shelve, shelving, shelvy, shift, shifting, shifting course,
shifting path, side,
sideling, sidelong, sideways, sidewise, sidle, sight, simulacrum, situation, skew, slant across, slanted, slanting, slantingly, slantways, slantwise, slash, slash across, slaunchways, slope, sloped, sloping, solidus, splay, spoon-feed, squiz, stamp, stand, standpoint, story, strain, straying, streak, stripe, structure, style, subject, subplot, swag, sway, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, switch, system, tack, temper, temperament, tendency, thematic development,
theme, thwart, tilt, tilted, tilting, tip, tipped, tipping, tipsy, titivate, tone, topic, torture, total effect, tower of
Pisa, train, transverse, travesty, trick out, turn, turn of mind, turning, twist, type, understate, universe, uprise, variation, varnish, veer, view, viewpoint, virgule, wandering, warp, weight, whitewash, wink, wise, wrench, yaw, zigzag