slant

«slant» in Mova's judaism 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 →

2) To slant means to lean or slope. tree →

3) A slant is also a particular way of seeing or telling something, sometimes unfairly, like a story with a slant. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: An old word that here means swift or slippery, said of a serpent. Interpretation: Job and Isaiah speak of a great sea serpent, Leviathan, that God defeats. Tradition reads it as the powers of evil, and later teachers say that God will destroy it at the end of days. In the primary 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

• By His breath the heavens are serene; His hand hath pierced the slant serpent. (Writings JOB.26.13, JPS 1917) tree →
• In that day the LORD with His sore and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the slant serpent, and leviathan the tortuous serpent; and He will slay the dragon that is in the sea. (Prophets ISA.27.1, JPS 1917) tree →
• Her handwriting slants to the right. tree →
• The rain fell at a slant. tree →
• The roof slants down to the garden. tree →
• Draw a slanted line from corner to corner. tree →
• The sun's rays slanted through the window. tree →
• The article had a slant towards one team. tree →
• He gave the old story a fresh slant. tree →
• 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 →

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

• By His breath the heavens are serene; His hand hath pierced the slant serpent.
• Sunlight that falls at a slant spreads over more ground, so it warms each piece of ground less.
• The polar zones are cold all year because the Sun's rays strike them at a low slant.
• The polar lands are cold because sunlight reaches them at a low slant, and white ice reflects most of it back.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «slant» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.