Late Middle English -, from a variant of the earlier form dialectical slent, from Old Norse - or another gmq - source, cognate with Old Norse slent, Swedish slinta, Norwegian slenta, from Proto-Germanic *slintaną.

• (RP) IPA: /ˈslɑːnt/
• (America) IPA: /ˈslænt/

slant (plural slants)

1. A slope; an incline, inclination.

   The house was built on a bit of a slant and was never quite level.

2. A sloped surface or line.
3. (mining) A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.
4. (typography) Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text.
5. An oblique movement or course.
6. (biology) A sloping surface in a culture medium.
7. A pan with a sloped bottom used for holding paintbrushes.
8. A depression on a palette with a sloping bottom for holding and mixing watercolours.
9. A palette or similar container with slants or sloping depressions.
10. (US, obsolete) A sarcastic remark; shade, an indirect mocking insult.
11. (slang) An opportunity, particularly to go somewhere.
12. (Australia, slang) A crime committed for the purpose of being apprehended and transported to a major settlement.
13. (originally US) A point of view, an angle.

    Synonyms: bias

    It was a well written article, but it had a bit of a leftist slant.

14. (US) A look, a glance.
15. (US, ethnic slur, pejorative) A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.

• (typography) See slash

• slent

• French: biais
• German: Schräge, Hang, Abhang, schiefe Ebene, Neigung, Steigung
• Italian: pendenza, inclinazione, pendio
• Portuguese: inclinação
• Russian: укло́н
• Spanish: inclinación

• German: Schräge, Hang, Abhang, Neigung, schiefe Ebene; schräg verlaufende Linie

• German: Näpfchen

• German: Seitenhieb

• French: connotation
• German: Tendenz, Neigung, Ausrichtung, Richtung
• Italian: tendenza, angolatura
• Russian: укло́н

• German: Blick

slant (slants, present participle slanting; simple past and past participle slanted)

1. (ambitransitive) To lean, tilt or incline.

   If you slant the track a little more, the marble will roll down it faster.

   • 1753, Robert Dodsley, Agriculture:

     On the side of yonder slanting hill

2. (transitive) To bias or skew.

   The group tends to slant its policies in favor of the big businesses it serves.

3. (Scotland, intransitive) To lie or exaggerate.

• aslant
• slent

• French: incliner, pencher
• German: abschrägen, neigen
• Italian: inclinare, pendere
• Russian: наклоня́ть

• French: biaiser

slant

1. Sloping; oblique; slanted.
   • 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Destiny of Nations:

     The Laplander beholds the far-off Sun
     Dart his slant beam on unobeying snows, […]

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC ↗, page 308 ↗:

     A slant ray of golden sunshine entered the chamber; it drew nearer and nearer as the hour went by, till it fell on Guido's bed.

   • 2015, Michael Z. Williamson, A Long Time Until Now:

     By the eighth day, Alexander and Caswell had lashed together a hut with a slant roof […]