Slanting

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Slant \Slant\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Slanted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Slanting}.] [OE. slenten to slope, slide; cf. Sw. slinta to
     slide.]
     To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie
     obliquely; to slope.
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           On the side of younder slanting hill.    --Dodsley.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Slanting \Slant"ing\, a.
     Oblique; sloping. -- {Slant"ing*ly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster] Slantwise

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  slanting
       adj : having an oblique or slanted direction [syn: {aslant}, {aslope},
              {diagonal}, {slanted}, {sloped}, {sloping}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  69 Moby Thesaurus words for "slanting":
     abstractionism, aslant, aslope, atilt, bevel, beveled, bias,
     biased, canting, careening, coloring, corruption, deformation,
     distortion, exaggeration, expressionism, false coloring,
     falsification, garbling, hyperbole, inaccuracy, inclinational,
     inclinatory, inclined, inclining, injustice, leaning, listing,
     litotes, miscoloring, misconstruction, misdirection, misdrawing,
     misinterpretation, mispainting, misquotation, misreport,
     misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, misuse, nonrealism,
     out of plumb, out of square, overdrawing, overstatement,
     perversion, pitched, raking, recumbent, shelving, shelvy, sideling,
     sidelong, slant, slanted, slantways, slantwise, sloped, sloping,
     straining, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping, tipsy, torturing,
     twisting, understatement