slanting adj : having an oblique or slanted direction [syn: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, sloped, sloping]

English

Verb

slanting

1. present participle of slant

Noun

1. The state or quality of being slanted.

   The slanting of the hill was too steep for safe skiing.

Translations

• French: en pente

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

• /(or Slant), a book by science fiction writer Greg Bear

• 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

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