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 →

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 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 →
• 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

• 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.
• By His breath the heavens are serene; His hand hath pierced the slant serpent.

Trees and pragmatics

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