slant
101slant — v 1. slope, lean, incline, tilt, pitch, dip; bend, bias, shift, shelve, cant, list, keel; skew, curve, veer, swerve; deviate, diverge, angle off, bear off, bevel, sheer. 2. bias, bend, twist, screw, wrest, garble; distort, misrepresent, misreport …
102slant — I s ( en, ar) fiskeredskap II s ( en, ar) mynt …
103slänt — s ( en, er) …
104slant range — The line of sight distance between two points, not at the same level relative to a specific datum …
105slant height — noun Date: 1798 1. the length of an element of a right circular cone 2. the altitude of a side of a regular pyramid …
106slant board — a tiltable board that allows a person to lie with the feet higher than the head while doing exercises. Also, slantboard. * * * …
107slant front — Furniture. a flap of a desk, sloping upward and inward to close the desk, and opening forward and downward to a horizontal position as a writing surface: a form of fall front. * * * …
108slant height — Geom. (of a right circular cone) the distance from the vertex to any point on the circumference of the base. [1790 1800] * * * …
109slant rhyme — Pros. rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours. Also called half rhyme, imperfect rhyme, near rhyme. * * * …
110slant-eyed — adjective Having eyes that are narrow and slanted …
