1 [+adv./prep.] to slope or to make sth slope in a particular direction or at a particular angle:
[V] (literary) The sun slanted through the window. * [VN] Slant your skis a little more to the left.
2 [VN] (sometimes disapproving) to present information from a particular point of view, especially in an unfair way:
The findings of the report had been slanted in favour of the manufacturers.
Part of speech: noun
1 a sloping position:
The sofa faced the fire at a slant. * Cut the flower stems on the slant.
2 ~ (on sth/sb) a way of thinking about sth, especially one that shows support for a particular point of view:
She put a new slant on the play. * Her book looks at his writings from a feminist slant.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for slant is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is slant a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, slant is tagged as verb.
Does slant appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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