slant
[verb]
Synonyms:
- slope, bend, bevel, cant, heel, incline, lean, list, tilt
- bias, angle, colour, distort, twist
[noun]
Synonyms:
- slope, camber, gradient, incline, tilt
- bias, angle, emphasis, one-sidedness, point of view, prejudice

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Antonyms: objectify, objectivize
Related Words: bank, decline, descend, bend, deviate, diverge, splay, swerve, veer, direct, orient, point, train, concentrate, focus, spoon-feed, bias, skew, warp, influence, prejudice, color, distort, twist, predilection, predisposition

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. slant¹ /slɑːnt $ slænt/ verb
[Date: 1400-1500; Origin: From a Scandinavian language]

1. [intransitive and transitive] to slope or make something slope in a particular direction:
The sun’s rays slanted through the trees.
slanting eyes

2. [transitive] to provide information in a way that unfairly supports one opinion, gives an advantage to one group etc:
The researchers were accused of slanting their findings in favour of their own beliefs.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. slant² noun [singular]

1. a way of writing about or thinking about a subject that is based on a particular opinion or set of ideas:
The article had an anti-union slant.
new/different/fresh etc slant
Each article has a slightly different slant on the situation.
Recent events have put a new slant on the president’s earlier comments.

2. a sloping position or angle Synonym : slope
at/on a slant
The house seems to be built on a steep slant.

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slant
noun
I. leaning position
VERB + SLANT have | take on Her chin took on a stubborn slant.
PREP. at a ~ They held their spears at a slant.
on the ~ Cut the flower stems on the slant.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

slant
II. way of thinking about sth
ADJ. different, new | feminist, left-wing, etc.
VERB + SLANT give sth, put He puts his own particular slant on everything.
PREP. with a … ~ an article with a right-wing slant
~ on That's a different slant on the causes of the First World War.
~ to The story gives a new slant to his character.

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