slanting

4 definitions found

slanting - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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           On the side of younder slanting hill.    --Dodsley.
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  Slanting \Slant"ing\, a.
     Oblique; sloping. -- Slant"ing*ly, adv.
     [1913 Webster] Slantwise

slanting - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  slanting
      adj 1: having an oblique or slanted direction [syn: aslant,
             aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped,
             sloping]

slanting - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  69 Moby Thesaurus words for "slanting":
     abstractionism, aslant, aslope, atilt, bevel, beveled, bias,
     biased, canting, careening, coloring, corruption, deformation,
     distortion, exaggeration, expressionism, false coloring,
     falsification, garbling, hyperbole, inaccuracy, inclinational,
     inclinatory, inclined, inclining, injustice, leaning, listing,
     litotes, miscoloring, misconstruction, misdirection, misdrawing,
     misinterpretation, mispainting, misquotation, misreport,
     misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, misuse, nonrealism,
     out of plumb, out of square, overdrawing, overstatement,
     perversion, pitched, raking, recumbent, shelving, shelvy, sideling,
     sidelong, slant, slanted, slantways, slantwise, sloped, sloping,
     straining, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping, tipsy, torturing,
     twisting, understatement