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 slant [slænt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 倾斜, 斜面, 观点, 偏见, 歪曲

a. 倾斜的

vt. (使)倾斜

vi. (使)倾斜

[医] 斜面; 斜面培养




    slant
    [ noun ]
    1. a biased way of looking at or presenting something

    2. <noun.cognition>
    3. degree of deviation from a horizontal plane

    4. <noun.attribute>
      the roof had a steep pitch
    [ verb ]
    1. lie obliquely

    2. <verb.stative>
      A scar slanted across his face
    3. present with a bias

    4. <verb.cognition> angle weight
      He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders
    5. to incline or bend from a vertical position

    6. <verb.motion>
      angle lean tilt tip
      She leaned over the banister
    7. heel over

    8. <verb.motion>
      cant cant over pitch tilt
      The tower is tilting
      The ceiling is slanting


    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.

    1. We naturally put a different slant on our writing depending on our audience.
    2. Any staging that takes a modish 'critical' slant, that substitutes production tricks for concentration on the performing powers of the leading players, will surely collapse in ignominy. The Nantes production had got its values right.
    3. A spokeswoman for Christie's says that low rates weren't the only lure and that Christie's clients will relate well to Clipper's new international slant.
    4. Others, who share the council's general political slant, will find some of its criteria laughably beside the point.
    5. Pointing to recent increases in prices of gold, silver and other commodities, he said, "Everything has a bearish, inflationary slant to it."
    6. An individual close to the GSA investigation said the inspector general was looking at allegations that some GSA officials may have taken inducements to slant the telephone-switching award against AT&T.
    7. And to what extent are the journalists/producers known for putting their slant on the programme, giving interviewees a rough ride, and heavy editing? Broadly there are two types of factual programme.
    8. "If this is borne out in other studies across the country, it puts a new slant on the safety of marijuana use," Dr. Edward J. Cone of the Johns Hopkins Addiction Research Center said Wednesday.
    9. Ted Goudvis, a retired mining engineer and Aspen resident who's been attending the conference for eight years, found that the speakers last June had a more "idealistic slant." Some ominous notes intruded.
    10. "Everyone was pretty well mad Saturday morning," said Greg Ayres, who had two tires punctured each on his van and car. "It was quite a sight to look down the parking lot and see all the cars sitting on a slant.
    11. Chris Palmer, executive producer of the program, said the show has a pro-conservation slant but also presents other viewpoints.
    12. A common problem at crash investigations, says Frank Taylor, the former director of accident investigations for the NTSB, is that the outside parties "sometimes try to muddy the waters or slant things a certain way."
    13. Were the drafters honestly mistaken or were they trying to slant intelligence to influence policy?
    14. The lyrics are swallowed, which is a pity on songs like 'Shipbuilding', Costello's slant on the Falklands War.
    15. The debate about the alleged effects of zeolites, phosphates and optical whiteners on the environment did not stand a chance against the promise to eradicate body odours. 'Too many manufacturers thought that a little green slant was all that was needed.
    16. Ellen Kuzwayo, writer of Call Me Woman, spoke mainly of personal problems, with a feminist slant.
    17. Books, movies and video projects under way are being repackaged with a Gulf victory slant, while other "instant" war depictions are being launched.
    18. Sensing a need to offer a new slant on the subject, the candidate quickly shifted gears.
    19. Among the U.S. airlines taking part are Eastern, World Airways, Tower International and Federal Express _ which gives a military slant to the slogan when it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight.
    20. The sun is low in the sky and its light travels a long slant distance through the ozone.
    21. As usual, it contains a number of history-nostalgia tomes, most of them with a New York slant.
    22. The document may have been drafted with a conservative slant in order to win passage, while containing enough references to improving efficiency to allow for real change.
    23. Far more interesting are the doomed but refreshing candidacies of such individuals as Roy James Clenendan, whose platform evinces a decidedly bracing orthodontic slant.
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