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单词 slant
释义

slant1 /slänt or slant/

transitive verb and intransitive verb
  1. To slope
  2. To turn, strike, fall, obliquely
  3. To be biased
transitive verb

To bias in a certain direction in presentation

noun
  1. A slope
  2. Obliquity
  3. A sloping surface, line, ray, or movement
  4. A divergence from a direct line
  5. A glance (N Am inf)
  6. A gybe
  7. A point of view, way of looking at a thing
  8. Bias
  9. A chance (slang)
adjective
  1. Sloping
  2. Oblique
  3. Inclined from a direct line
ORIGIN: ME slent; cf Norw slenta, Swed slinta to slope, slip

slantˈed adjective

Biased, prejudiced

slantendicˈūlar or slantindicˈūlar adjective (joc informal)

  1. Oblique
  2. Neither horizontal nor perpendicular

slantˈing adjective

slantˈingly, slantˈingways or slantˈly adverb

slantˈways or slantˈwise adjective and adverb

slantˈ-eyed adjective (offensive)

Having slanting eyes, esp applied to people from E Asia

slant rig noun (mining)

A rig with facilities for digging at an angle from the vertical

slant2 /slänt or slant/

noun

A transitory breeze

ORIGIN: Earlier slent; Scand; cf Norw slett
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