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Slanting   /slˈæntɪŋ/   Listen
Slanting

adjective
1.
Having an oblique or slanted direction.  Synonyms: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, sloped, sloping.



Slant

verb
(past & past part. slanted; pres. part. slanting)
1.
Lie obliquely.
2.
Present with a bias.  Synonyms: angle, weight.
3.
To incline or bend from a vertical position.  Synonyms: angle, lean, tilt, tip.
4.
Heel over.  Synonyms: cant, cant over, pitch, tilt.  "The ceiling is slanting"



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"Slanting" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the stock, note he used a pruning saw, makes a cut at the point where he wants to graft. He uses the bark slit method. The scion is shaped by one stroke of the grafting knife; a long slanting cut is made and the scion inserted in the stock. Just prior to placing the scion, the bark of the stock is slit, two cuts with the point of the knife, approximate width of the scion and down along the bark to the length the scion is to be inserted, then the scion ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting • Various

... with me, for no one seemed to care for her, while Amy was queening it with all the Wheatfields, and Letty was equally happy with her foster mother. I could see the church spire, so I needed not to ask the way, and we crossed the stubble fields, while the sun sent a beautiful slanting light through the tall elm trees that closed in the churchyard, but let one window glitter between them like a great diamond. It looked so peaceful after all the noise we left behind, even little Fay felt it, and said she loved the quiet walk along the green baulks [An unplowed strip of ...
— Love and Life • Charlotte M. Yonge

... dim with white starlight from the side ports. Chairs were here but they were all empty. From the bow windows of the arching dome a flood of moonlight threw long, slanting shadows down the deck. At the corner where the superstructure ended, I thought I saw a figure lurking as though watching me. I went that way, but ...
— Brigands of the Moon • Ray Cummings

... land, shaped like a saddle-back, with a line of forest trees topping its farther ridge. This was the fringe of a considerable forest, and beyond the ridge they rode for miles in the shade of boughs, slanting their way along a gentle declivity, with here and there glimpses of a broad plain below, and of a broad-banded river winding ...
— Lady Good-for-Nothing • A. T. Quiller-Couch

... puddler. In this roof was a trap-door, and when the wash dirt had been sufficiently mixed the trap-door was opened, and it was precipitated through on to the floor of the second chamber. A kind of broad trough, running in a slanting direction and called a sluice, was on one side, and into this a quantity of wash was put, and a tap at the top turned on, which caused the water to wash the dirt down the sluice. Another man at the foot, with a pitchfork, ...
— Madame Midas • Fergus Hume


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