slant

noun 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. A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.
4. Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text. Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.
5. An oblique movement or course.
6. 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. A point of view, an angle. It was a well written article, but it had a bit of a leftist slant.
14. US A look, a glance. All batters looked alike to him—I don't believe he ever took a slant at the averages;
15. US, derogatory, ethnic, slur A person with epicanthi, particularly an East Asian.

Similar: slash

verb slants · slanting · slanted

1. ambitransitive To lean, tilt or incline. If you slant the track a little more, the marble will roll down it faster.
2. transitive To bias or skew. a magazine slanted toward the youth market
3. Scotland, intransitive To lie or exaggerate.

adjective

1. Sloping; oblique; slanted. The Laplander beholds the far-off Sun Dart his slant beam on unobeying snows, […]