slanting in English

adjective
1
positioned or directed in a sloping or oblique direction.
the slanting beams of the roof
verb
1
slope or lean in a particular direction; diverge or cause to diverge from the vertical or horizontal.
a plowed field slanted up to the skyline

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1. Canted: running in a slanting direction.

2. The line is slanting to the left.

3. The early sunset was slanting across the park.

4. Backswept definition is - swept or slanting backward

5. He glanced at the slanting window pane.

6. Aslant definition is - in a slanting direction : obliquely

7. Slanting door front; works as a magazine rack.

8. Swept, angled, or slanting backward: a Backswept hairstyle

9. The floodlights were hazy behind the slanting rain.

10. Backswept: Swept, angled, or slanting backward

11. 6 synonyms for Aslope: slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping, aslant, diagonal

12. What does Backswept mean? Swept, angled, or slanting backward

13. Backswept definition, slanting backward or away from the front

14. The slanting rays of the sun aureoled the television tower.

15. Sunlight came into the room, slanting across the boards in languid diamonds.

16. You see the world all wrong, may be you stand slanting.

17. Backswept definition: slanting backwards Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

18. Aslope definition is - being in a sloping or slanting position or direction.

19. 25 In the meantime, detachable slanting rotary wedge inserted may satisfy hardest requirements.

20. 6 synonyms for Beveled: bias, biased, diagonal, oblique, slanted, slanting

21. Bonitos have dark slanting stripes on their greenish-blue back and silvery bellies

22. The sun was slanting in through the windows and heating the place up.

23. Cut the loaf into even slanting slices about 1 inch thick.

24. Bink looked at the girl beside him as she stepped through a slanting sunbeam.

25. The researchers were accused of slanting their findings in favour of their own beliefs.

26. He made a quick drop, slanting down on his backswept wings, and then circled again.

27. He had a bony, tortured face, angry, slanting peacock-blue eyes, bronze curls and a sallow complexion.

28. The second celestial apparition was a faint, pearly cone of light slanting up the eastern sky.

29. Yet, Lord Taylor accuses newspapers of slanting accounts of sentences, of failing to convey salient facts.

30. Swiss chalets have steeply slanting roofs, so that snow does not settle on them.

31. He made a quick drop, slanting down on his Backswept wings, and then circled again

32. The miners scrambled back up the hill of the slanting deck and the ship steadied.

33. Their skins are creamy yellow and their black eyes are set under narrow slanting lids.

34. And he blasted the media for slanting the coverage against Simpson to prolong the story.

35. This latter manuscript consists of 187 leaves of fine parchment, mostly sheepskin, written in slanting Greek uncials (capitals).

36. A frown ran in a slanting direction between his eyebrows and half way up his forehead.

37. On the top are slanting translucent screens, on which material can be projected for convenient reading.

38. Make a slanting cut just above a bud facing outwards and in the direction you want the rose to grow.

39. 10 The second celestial apparition was a faint, pearly cone of light slanting up the eastern sky.

40. Little cameos come to mind: The glorious greens of the rolling countryside in the slanting rays of the evening sun.

41. Now it was raining hard outside, great heavy unmerciful rain slanting out of the sky like steel rods.

42. Wade read the letter through again, then lay back and watched the snow slanting across the yellow firelight.

43. Its runways made a distinctive pattern, a slanting cross, as if some one had slammed a rubber stamp on the scruffy countryside.

44. The temperature hovered just above freezing, and a brisk wind turned the rain into slanting sheets of icy daggers.

45. And then, quite suddenly, it was full morning and the sun was slanting across the floor of the rooms.

46. Crabwise: 1 adj (of movement) at an angle Synonyms: sideways oblique slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled

47. It reverted to the slanting nose glass, and it had RF-2600-23 engines, self-sealing fuel tanks, and additional protective armor.

48. You reach it from Camden Road up a slanting lane opposite the excellent [email protected] caff, the verge Afoam with cow parsley in late spring.

49. Aslope - having an oblique or slanted direction slanted , slanting , sloped , sloping , aslant , diagonal inclined - at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position; "an inclined plane"

50. 1500), probably from Middle English aslope (adv.) "on the incline" (late 15c.), from Old English *Aslopen, past participle of aslupan "to slip away," from a-"away" + slupan "to slip" (see sleeve).From 1709 as "to be in a slanting position;" transitive sense "place in a slanting position" is from c