slant

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The upright lines represent lines of cyclopean masonry, and the slant is the talus that connects them, covered with a short, sage-colored growth of some kind, and as soft to the eye as the turf of our fields.

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  1. transitive verb To give a direction other than perpendicular or horizontal to; make diagonal; cause to slope: She slants her letters from upper right to lower left.
  2. transitive verb To present so as to conform to a particular bias or appeal to a certain audience: The story was slanted in favor of the strikers.
  3. intransitive verb To have or go in a direction other than perpendicular or horizontal; slope.
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  • On the flip side, I admire Obama's approach, but it's the crap on Digg that sways people to not like him because you start to paint him and McCain as people they are not. just now, -0 / +1Yeah, I love how obvious the slant is here. —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • Miley Cyrus is finally speaking out on controversial photos that show her using her fingers to make her eyes slant, which is considered degrading to Asian people. —  Gawker: Defamer
  • It has the feel you would expect: a "J.J. Abrams takes on X-Files" slant which is bound to come about when J.J. Abrams takes on the X-Files. —  Cathode Tan
  • Now that the angle of the slant is established you can sketch the arabesque and validate the height / width proportion. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • The likes of Elaine Showalter's Hystories does not share this romantic slant, and manages to remain more broad in its overview, although is more limited in its scope. —  Mind Hacks
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incline ·  tilt ·  declivity ·  gradient ·  ascent ·  glint ·  inclination ·  angle ·  slope ·  lurch ·  twitch ·  bend

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slant:   Slant ·  slanting ·  slanted ·  slants
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  1. Alteration of obsolete slent, from Middle English slenten, to fall aslant, perhaps of Scandinavian origin.

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  1. from Middle English slante, slonte, in the phrase on slante, o slonte, a slante; from slant, v. Cf. aslant.
 

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