What is "slant"

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.

On the side of younder slanting hill.
--Dodsley.

Slant \Slant\, v. t. To turn from a direct line; to give an oblique or sloping direction to; as, to slant a line.

Slant \Slant\, n.

1. A slanting direction or plane; a slope; as, it lies on a slant.

2. An oblique reflection or gibe; a sarcastic remark.

   Slant or wind, a local variation of the wind from its general direction.

Slant \Slant\, a. [Cf. dial. Sw. slant. See Slant, v. i.] Inclined from a direct line, whether horizontal or perpendicular; sloping; oblique. ``The slant lightning.''
--Milton.

1650s, "an oblique direction or plane" (originally of landforms), from slant (v.). Meaning "a way of regarding something" is from 1905. Derogatory slang sense of "a slant-eyed Asian person" is recorded from 1943, from earlier slant-eyes (1929).

1520s, "to strike obliquely" (against something), alteration of slenten "slip sideways" (c.1300), perhaps via a Scandinavian source (compare Swedish slinta "to slip," Norwegian slenta "to fall on one side"), from Proto-Germanic *slintanan. Intransitive sense of "to slope, to lie obliquely" is first recorded 1690s; transitive sense of "to give a sloping direction to" is from 1805. Related: Slanted; slanting. As an adverb from late 15c.; as an adjective from 1610s. Slant rhyme attested from 1944.

n. 1 A slope or incline. 2 A bias, tendency, or leaning; a perspective or angle. 3 (context pejorative ethnic slur English) A person of East Asian descent, supposed to have slanting eyes. 4 (context obsolete English) An oblique reflection or gibe; a sarcastic remark. vb. 1 To lean, tilt or incline. 2 To bias or skew.

1. n. a biased way of looking at or presenting something [syn: angle]

2. degree of deviation from a horizontal plane; "the roof had a steep pitch" [syn: pitch, rake]

3. v. lie obliquely; "A scar slanted across his face"

4. present with a bias; "He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders" [syn: angle, weight]

5. to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister" [syn: lean, tilt, tip, angle]

6. heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting" [syn: cant, cant over, tilt, pitch]

Slant was a Catholic magazine associated with the University of Cambridge and the Dominican Order during the 1960s, and of the group associated with this magazine. It sought to combine Catholic belief with left-wing politics and was influenced by the thinking of Wittgenstein and Marx. Influential members included Terry Eagleton and Herbert McCabe. Denys Turner is a significant theologian influenced by Slant.

Slant was a science fiction fanzine edited by Walt Willis in collaboration with James White. It won the retro-Hugo for Best Fanzine of 1954, awarded in 2004.

Slant is the predominant angle of the downward stroke in Western handwriting. A good basis for its estimation is the point of the handwritten curve where the velocity has its peak value in the downward stroke. The polar distribution of the running angle along a handwritten trajectory is another good method for estimating the slant angle. Left-handed writing is often accompanied by a slant value which is larger than 90 degrees, i.e., it is bent backwards, to the left.

In Graphology slant can refer to either upstroke or downstroke values. These strokes can made in the upper, middle, lower, or any combination of those zones.

In handwriting recognition, an affine transformation can be used to normalize handwritten input towards a population average or towards 90 degrees.

A slant route is a pattern run by a receiver in American football, where the receiver runs up the field at approximately a 45-degree angle, heading to the gap between the linebackers and the linemen. Usually, the pass is used when the corner or nickelback are playing farther away from the receiver, so a quick pass is able to be completed before the defender has time to try to break up the pass. The pass is used frequently in the West Coast system, where quick, accurate throwing is key. This route is most commonly used to exploit the cover 2 defense. Usually throwing in the seam between the safety and the cornerback is the key to getting a completion using this route.

Slant can refer to:

• Bias or other non- objectivity in journalism, politics, academia or other fields
• slants, the slashes used to set off punctuation from other text
• Slant height, is the distance from any point on the circle to the apex of a right circular cone
• A growth medium such as agar set in an inclined glass tube for growing microbiological cultures.
• Slant range, in telecommunications, the line-of-sight distance between two points which are not at the same level
• Slant drilling (or Directional drilling), the practice of drilling non-vertical wells
• Slant-4 engine (disambiguation), a type of car engine
• Triumph Slant-4 engine, an engine developed by Triumph
• Chrysler Slant-6 engine, an engine developed by Chrysler
• Slant (route), an American football play pattern.
• Slant (handwriting), an attribute of Western handwriting
• Slant (journal), a Catholic journal
• The Slant, a student humor magazine at Vanderbilt University
• / (or Slant), a book by science fiction writer Greg Bear
• Slant Six Games, a video game developer founded in 2005
• Slant Magazine, a film, TV, and music review website
• Slant (fanzine), a fanzine by Walt Willis, winner of the 1954 Retrospective Hugo Award for Best Fanzine
• Slant 6, an all-female punk rock trio based in Washington, D.C.
• The Slants, an Asian dance/ rock group from Portland, Oregon
• A racial slur for people of Asian descent, in reference to the shape of their eyes.
• Piccadilly Slant-Abraham's Cove, a designated place in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador