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" Tell the truth, but tell it slant."
Emily Dickinson

Meaning of "slant" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SLANT

Short for aslant, probably of Scandinavian origin.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF SLANT

slɑːnt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SLANT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Slant is a verb and can also act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb slant in English.

WHAT DOES SLANT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of slant in the English dictionary

The first definition of slant in the dictionary is to incline or be inclined at an oblique or sloping angle. Other definition of slant is to write or present with a bias. Slant is also foll by towards to be biased.



CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SLANT

PRESENT

Present
I slant
you slant
he/she/it slants
we slant
you slant
they slant
Present continuous
I am slanting
you are slanting
he/she/it is slanting
we are slanting
you are slanting
they are slanting
Present perfect
I have slanted
you have slanted
he/she/it has slanted
we have slanted
you have slanted
they have slanted
Present perfect continuous
I have been slanting
you have been slanting
he/she/it has been slanting
we have been slanting
you have been slanting
they have been slanting
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I slanted
you slanted
he/she/it slanted
we slanted
you slanted
they slanted
Past continuous
I was slanting
you were slanting
he/she/it was slanting
we were slanting
you were slanting
they were slanting
Past perfect
I had slanted
you had slanted
he/she/it had slanted
we had slanted
you had slanted
they had slanted
Past perfect continuous
I had been slanting
you had been slanting
he/she/it had been slanting
we had been slanting
you had been slanting
they had been slanting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will slant
you will slant
he/she/it will slant
we will slant
you will slant
they will slant
Future continuous
I will be slanting
you will be slanting
he/she/it will be slanting
we will be slanting
you will be slanting
they will be slanting
Future perfect
I will have slanted
you will have slanted
he/she/it will have slanted
we will have slanted
you will have slanted
they will have slanted
Future perfect continuous
I will have been slanting
you will have been slanting
he/she/it will have been slanting
we will have been slanting
you will have been slanting
they will have been slanting
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would slant
you would slant
he/she/it would slant
we would slant
you would slant
they would slant
Conditional continuous
I would be slanting
you would be slanting
he/she/it would be slanting
we would be slanting
you would be slanting
they would be slanting
Conditional perfect
I would have slant
you would have slant
he/she/it would have slant
we would have slant
you would have slant
they would have slant
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been slanting
you would have been slanting
he/she/it would have been slanting
we would have been slanting
you would have been slanting
they would have been slanting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you slant
we let´s slant
you slant
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to slant
Past participle
slanted
Present Participle
slanting
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SLANT

aren´t · aslant · aunt · can´t · chant · courant · courante · debutant · debutante · eggplant · enchant · explant · galant · gant · grant · implant · plant · supplant · tea-plant · transplant

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SLANT

slangily · slanginess · slanging match · slangingly · slangish · slanguage · slangular · slangy · slant rhyme · slant-eyed · slantendicular · slanter · slantindicular · slanting · slantingly · slantingways · slantly · slantways · slantwise · slanty

WORDS THAT END LIKE SLANT

air plant · ambulant · appellant · coolant · face-plant · gallant · jubilant · lant · manufacturing plant · nuclear power plant · on a slant · power plant · processing plant · repellant · sealant · semblant · stimulant · tremblant · vigilant · volant

Synonyms and antonyms of slant in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SLANT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «slant» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «slant» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF SLANT

Find out the translation of slant to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of slant from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «slant» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

倾斜
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

inclinarse
570 millions of speakers
en

English

slant
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

तिरछा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الميل
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

наклонная
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

inclinar(-se)
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

তির্যক্তা
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

passer obliquement
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Slant
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

sich neigen
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

傾く
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

기울어지다
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Slant
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

xiên
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

சிலாண்டில்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

तिरकस
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

eğimli
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

scendere diagonalmente
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

skos
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

похила
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

înclinat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κλίση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

inslag
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lutande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Skrått
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of slant

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SLANT»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of slant
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «slant».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about slant

EXAMPLES

9 QUOTES WITH «SLANT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word slant.
1
Amy J. Berg
Especially when you talk about the power of documentary filmmaking, you can't really have a slant; financially, you can't have a slant on the end goals.
2
Judith Butler
Events that get covered in the U.S. one way are not very important elsewhere or are given a completely different slant ,and one needs to have a kind of comparative way of thinking in order to arrive at a judgment that is not completely provincial, that doesn't end up ratifying one's own national perspective and hence, one's own national agendas.
3
Emily Dickinson
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
4
Vince Gill
I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.
5
Brian McDermott
Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.
6
Natalie Merchant
I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.
7
Mike Mills
Life doesn't just happen; it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here.
8
Bernadette Peters
Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board.
9
Curt Weldon
The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SLANT»

Discover the use of slant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to slant and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Certain Slant of Light
In the class of the high school English teacher she has been haunting, Helen feels them: for the first time in 130 years, human eyes are looking at her.
Laura Whitcomb, 2005
2
Tell It Slant : Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction: ...
Creative nonfiction is the fastest-growing segment in the writing market.
Brenda Miller, Suzanne Paola, 2004
3
A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage
The author shares her personal experience of loving a child with special needs in an intimate, poignant account that describes life with an autistic child, her and her husband's quest to help their son, and his struggle to become a part of ...
Beth Kephart, 1998
4
Slant: A Novel
James, an Asian college student, decides he's gay.
Timothy Wang, 2011
5
Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in ...
The fourth volume in Peterson's best-selling "conversations" in spiritual theology Just as God used words both to create the world and to give us commandments, we too use words for many different purposes.
Eugene H. Peterson, 2012
6
Slant
In the second half of the twenty-first century, nanotechnology has transformed every aspect of society.
Greg Bear, 2014
7
Tell It Slant, 2nd Edition
This second edition includes a new chapter on publication--print, digital; an update on “The Particular Challenges of Creative Nonfiction” chapter to include references to James Frey and other controversies regarding nonfiction ethics; ...
Brenda Miller, Suzanne Paola, 2012
8
Slant Room
Slant Room marks the book-length emergence of a poet whose work, already startlingly assured, is gaining national recognition.
Michael Eden Reynolds, 2009
9
Quilting with a Modern Slant: People, Patterns, and ...
Tour the varied world of modern quilting through the stories and works of more than 70 of its most exciting artists.
Rachel May, 2014
10
The Slant Book
A runaway baby carriage speeds down a hill, causing much chaos.
Peter Newell, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SLANT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term slant is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Ron Weitzman: Slant-well issue fuels need for transparency
Near the beginning of a June 21 Herald commentary, John Narigi claimed that in an earlier commentary I had written that (his words) “local businesses oppose ... «Monterey County Herald, Jul 15»
2
New 'Slant' on victims of civil wars
Jeffrey Lent's "Slant of Light" (Bloomsbury) begins with a brutal crime. Malcolm Hopeton had returned to his New York homestead from war, maimed in body and ... «Jackson Clarion Ledger, May 15»
3
VDOT set to haul away damaged Slant bridge
FORT BLACKMORE — In the coming weeks, Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) crews will begin the process of removing the Slant footbridge in ... «Kingsport Times News, Apr 15»
4
Monterey slant test ousttrips expections
State utility, California American Water (CalAm) has reported that its test slant well for a proposed Monterey Peninsula desalination project is outstripping ... «desalination.biz, Apr 15»
5
Scott supervisors to back Slant bridge rebuild
GATE CITY — About a dozen supporters of the Slant swinging bridge came to the Scott County Board of Supervisors meeting on Wednesday to speak out in ... «Kingsport Times News, Apr 15»
6
Opinion: Leftist slant to AP US History turns America's melting pot …
A review of the Framework (available online – I recommend that all Georgians read it) reveals a leftist slant which sets the tone for much of the document. «Atlanta Journal Constitution, Mar 15»
7
Shakespeare With A Feminist Slant To Be Performed At High School …
Middlesex County students studying in a theater program will open their production of Shakespeare's “Measure for Measure” with a feminist slant later this month ... «Patch.com, Mar 15»
8
Poetry reviews: 'Digest,' 'Slant Six,' 'I Was Not Born'
Gregory Pardlo has a lot to say, and not just about his own life: Digest (Four Way; $15.95) is dense with the kind of ambitiously abstract language designed to ... «SFGate, Jan 15»
9
WRRF selects CA American Water test slant well for national …
Slant wells, a type of subsurface intake, are drilled beneath the beach at a diagonal angle and extend under the ocean floor. These wells draw ocean water ... «WaterWorld, Nov 14»
10
California Coastal Commission Approves California American Water …
BUSINESS WIRE)--In a unanimous decision, the California Coastal Commission approved California American Water's application to construct a test slant well ... «Business Wire, Nov 14»
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