slant

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈslɑːnt/
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• Midlands, Northern-England, Scotland: /ˈslant/
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• Wales: /ˈslant/
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• Wales: /ˈslaːnt/
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• General-American: /ˈslænt/
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• Australian: /ˈslæːnt/
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• Australia, New-Zealand, South: /ˈslɐːnt/
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• rhymes with -ænt
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• rhymes with -ɑːnt
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• CMU ARPABET: S L AE1 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Late Middle English, from a variant of the earlier form dialectal slent, from Old Norse or another North Germanic source, cognate with Old Norse slent, Swedish slinta (“to slip”), Norwegian slenta (“to fall on the side”), from Proto-Germanic *slintaną. Probably influenced by aslant.

109 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: накло́н (naklón) — slope or incline
• Chinese Mandarin: 斜坡 (xiépō) — slope or incline
• Czech: sklon — slope or incline
• Czech: svah — slope or incline
• Czech: spád — slope or incline
• Finnish: rinne — slope or incline
• French: biais — slope or incline
• German: Schräge — slope or incline
• German: Hang — slope or incline
• German: Abhang — slope or incline
• German: schiefe Ebene — slope or incline
• German: Neigung — slope or incline
• German: Steigung — slope or incline
• Greek: κλίση (klísi) — slope or incline
• Ancient Greek: κλίσις (klísis) — slope or incline
• Irish: maig — slope or incline
• Italian: pendenza — slope or incline
• Italian: inclinazione — slope or incline
• Italian: pendio — slope or incline
• Korean: 경사 (gyeongsa) — slope or incline
• Plautdietsch: Schrozinj — slope or incline
• Portuguese: inclinação — slope or incline
• Russian: укло́н (uklón) — slope or incline
• Russian: накло́н (naklón) — slope or incline
• Russian: склон (sklon) — slope or incline
• Russian: скос (skos) — slope or incline
• Russian: косина́ (kosiná) — slope or incline
• Serbo-Croatian: nagib — slope or incline
• Serbo-Croatian: kosina — slope or incline
• Slovak: sklon — slope or incline
• Spanish: inclinación — slope or incline
• Turkish: eğiklik — slope or incline
• Bulgarian: склон (sklon) — sloped surface or line
• Czech: zkosení — sloped surface or line
• Czech: pokos — sloped surface or line
• Czech: okos — sloped surface or line
• Finnish: kalteva pinta — sloped surface or line
• Finnish: vinoviiva — sloped surface or line
• Finnish: kaltevuus — sloped surface or line
• Finnish: vietto — sloped surface or line
• German: Schräge — sloped surface or line
• German: Hang — sloped surface or line
• German: Abhang — sloped surface or line
• German: Neigung — sloped surface or line
• German: schiefe Ebene — sloped surface or line
• German: schräg verlaufende Linie — sloped surface or line
• Finnish: vinotunneli — mining: run
• Finnish: vinottainen liike — oblique movement or course
• Finnish: kalteva pinta — biology: sloping surface in a culture medium
• Finnish: kalteva alusta — biology: sloping surface in a culture medium
• Finnish: teline — pan for holding paintbrushes
• Finnish: kalteva lokero — depression with sloping bottom to hold watercolors
• German: Näpfchen — depression with sloping bottom to hold watercolors
• Finnish: vinoilu — sarcastic remark; indirect mocking insult
• German: Seitenhieb — sarcastic remark; indirect mocking insult
• Finnish: sauma — slang: opportunity
• Bulgarian: склонност (sklonnost) — bias
• Chinese Mandarin: 偏見 /偏见 (piānjiàn) — bias
• Finnish: näkökulma — bias
• Finnish: asenne — bias
• Finnish: tulokulma — bias
• Finnish: tendenssi — bias
• French: connotation — bias
• German: Tendenz — bias
• German: Neigung — bias
• German: Ausrichtung — bias
• German: Richtung — bias
• Greek: προκατάληψη (prokatálipsi) — bias
• Italian: tendenza — bias
• Italian: angolatura — bias
• Russian: укло́н (uklón) — bias
• Russian: тенде́нция (tɛndɛ́ncija) — bias
• Serbo-Croatian: nagib — bias
• Serbo-Croatian: kosina — bias
• Bulgarian: кос поглед (kos pogled) — look, glance
• Finnish: silmäys — look, glance
• German: Blick — look, glance
• Bulgarian: накланям (naklanjam) — to lean, slope or incline
• Catalan: inclinar — to lean, slope or incline
• Czech: sklonit — to lean, slope or incline
• Czech: naklonit — to lean, slope or incline
• Czech: sklánět — to lean, slope or incline
• Czech: naklánět — to lean, slope or incline
• Finnish: viettää — to lean, slope or incline
• French: incliner — to lean, slope or incline
• French: pencher — to lean, slope or incline
• German: abschrägen — to lean, slope or incline
• German: neigen — to lean, slope or incline
• Greek: κλίνω (klíno) — to lean, slope or incline
• Greek: γέρνω (gérno) — to lean, slope or incline
• Ancient Greek: κλίνω (klínō) — to lean, slope or incline
• Italian: inclinare — to lean, slope or incline
• Italian: pendere — to lean, slope or incline
• Māori: tītaha — to lean, slope or incline
• Māori: honga — to lean, slope or incline
• Russian: наклоня́ть (naklonjátʹ) — to lean, slope or incline
• Russian: наклони́ть (naklonítʹ) — to lean, slope or incline
• Turkish: eğikleşmek — to lean, slope or incline
• Turkish: eğmek — to lean, slope or incline
• Ottoman Turkish: اكمك (eğmek) — to lean, slope or incline
• Catalan: esbiaixar — to bias or skew
• Czech: zkreslit — to bias or skew
• Czech: překroutit — to bias or skew
• Finnish: painottaa — to bias or skew
• Finnish: suunnata — to bias or skew
• French: biaiser — to bias or skew
• German: einseitig ausrichten — to bias or skew
• Serbo-Croatian: naginjati — to bias or skew
• Spanish: sesgar — to bias or skew