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# slant

noun (a slant, slants); verb (slant, slants, slanted, slanting)

«slant» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A slant is a line or surface that slopes, not straight up or flat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slant/#m1)
2. To slant means to lean or slope. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slant/#m2)
3. A slant is also a particular way of seeing or telling something, sometimes unfairly, like a story with a slant. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slant/#m3)

### In the lessons

In handwriting lessons letters may slant to the right; in maths slanted lines are diagonal or oblique. In media lessons a news story with a slant favours one side. Phrases: «at a slant», «slanted writing», «a new slant on».

### Examples

- Her handwriting slants to the right. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slant/#x1)
- The rain fell at a slant. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slant/#x2)
- The roof slants down to the garden. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slant/#x3)
- Draw a slanted line from corner to corner. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slant/#x4)
- The sun's rays slanted through the window. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slant/#x5)
- The article had a slant towards one team. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slant/#x6)
- He gave the old story a fresh slant. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slant/#x7)
- So the drakling wriggled through the hole, and began to crawl faster and faster down the slanting shaft that leads to the fire in the middle of the earth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slant/#x8)

### Note

Regular verb. Similar words: slope, lean, tilt. In maths a slanting line is also called a diagonal or oblique line. Pronounced SLANT (UK often SLAHNT).

## In Jewish tradition

An old word that here means swift or slippery, said of a serpent.

**Interpretation.** Job and Isaiah speak of a great sea serpent, Leviathan, that God defeats. Tradition reads it as the powers of evil, and later teachers say that God will destroy it at the end of days.

### Examples

- By His breath the heavens are serene; His hand hath pierced the slant serpent. (Writings JOB.26.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/slant/#x1)
- In that day the LORD with His sore and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the slant serpent, and leviathan the tortuous serpent; and He will slay the dragon that is in the sea. (Prophets ISA.27.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/slant/#x2)

### Note

Regular verb. Similar words: slope, lean, tilt. In maths a slanting line is also called a diagonal or oblique line. Pronounced SLANT (UK often SLAHNT).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «slant» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slant/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«slant» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/slant.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «slant» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/slant/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«slant» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/slant.html) on Mova free.