Slope vs. Slant

To diverge from the vertical or horizontal; incline

To give a direction other than perpendicular or horizontal to; make diagonal; cause to slope

To move or walk

To present so as to conform to a particular bias or appeal to a certain audience

To cause to slope

To have or go in a direction other than perpendicular or horizontal; slope.

An inclined line, surface, plane, position, or direction.

A line, plane, course, or direction that is other than perpendicular or horizontal; a slope.

A stretch of ground forming a natural or artificial incline

A sloping thing or piece of ground.

A deviation from the horizontal.

(Printing) A virgule.

The amount or degree of such deviation.

A personal point of view or opinion

The rate at which an ordinate of a point of a line on a coordinate plane changes with respect to a change in the abscissa.

A bias

The tangent of the angle of inclination of a line, or the slope of the tangent line for a curve or surface.

Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a person of East Asian birth or ancestry.

Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a person of East Asian birth or ancestry.

A slope; an incline, inclination.

An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.

A sloped surface or line.

The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.

(mining) A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.

(mathematics) The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if the line is horizontal, undefined if it is vertical.

(typography) slash, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text.

(mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.

An oblique movement or course.

The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise to the units of horizontal length (sometimes referred to as run).

(biology) A sloping surface in a culture medium.

A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.

A pan with a sloped bottom used for holding paintbrushes.

(intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.

A depression on a palette with a sloping bottom for holding and mixing watercolours.

(transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.

A palette or similar container with slants or sloping depressions.

To try to move surreptitiously.

A sarcastic remark; shade, an indirect mocking insult.

(military) To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.

(slang) An opportunity, particularly to go somewhere.

(obsolete) Sloping.

A crime committed for the purpose of being apprehended and transported to a major settlement.

(obsolete) slopingly

A point of view, an angle.

An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.

(US) A look, a glance.

Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.

A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.

The part of a continent descending toward, and draining to, a particular ocean; as, the Pacific slope.

(ambitransitive) To lean, tilt or incline.

Sloping.

(transitive) To bias or skew.

In a sloping manner.

To lie or exaggerate.

To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.

Sloping; oblique; slanted.

To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.

To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.

To depart; to disappear suddenly.

To turn from a direct line; to give an oblique or sloping direction to; as, to slant a line.

An elevated geological formation;

A slanting direction or plane; a slope; as, it lies on a slant.

The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal;

An oblique reflection or gibe; a sarcastic remark.

Be at an angle;

Inclined from a direct line, whether horizontal or perpendicular; sloping; oblique.

A biased way of looking at or presenting something

Degree of deviation from a horizontal plane;

Lie obliquely;

Present with a bias;

To incline or bend from a vertical position;

Heel over;