slant

Pronunciation

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Verb

Plain form slant

Third-person singular slants

Past tense slanted

Past participle slanted

Present participle slanting

We say that a slide or ramp is slanting.

1. A long thing is slanting when one end is higher up than the other end and also further along. To be on an angle or sloping.

   The piece of wood is slanting from the ground up to the door so that a cart with wheels can roll up it.

Noun

Singular slant

Plural slants

1. A slant is the way a long thing is when one end is higher up and further along than the other end. The way a ramp is.

The gray line in this flag is on a slant. It is not straight up and down and it is not straight from side to side.