Usually means: Angle or bias in presentation.
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  1. slant: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. slant, slant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. slant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. slant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. slant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Slant, slant: Wordnik
  7. slant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. slant: Wiktionary
  9. slant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. slant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. slant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. slant: Dictionary.com
  13. slant (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. slant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Slant (journal), Slant (magazine), Slant (route), Slant, The Slant (band), The Slant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Slant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. slant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. slant: Rhymezone
  19. slant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. slant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. slant: Free Dictionary
  22. slant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. slant: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. slant: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

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  1. slant: Legal dictionary

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  1. slant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slant: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SLANT: Acronym Finder
  2. slant: Idioms
  3. slant: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slant: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Slant (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. slant, slant, slant: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. slant: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Slant: Sports Definitions

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noun:  A slope; an incline, inclination.
noun:  A sloped surface or line.
noun:  (mining) A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.
noun:  (typography) Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text.
noun:  An oblique movement or course.
noun:  (biology) A sloping surface in a culture medium.
noun:  A pan with a sloped bottom used for holding paintbrushes.
noun:  A depression on a palette with a sloping bottom for holding and mixing watercolours.
noun:  A palette or similar container with slants or sloping depressions.
noun:  (US, obsolete) A sarcastic remark; shade, an indirect mocking insult.
noun:  (slang) An opportunity, particularly to go somewhere.
noun:  (Australia, slang) A crime committed for the purpose of being apprehended and transported to a major settlement.
noun:  (originally US) A point of view, an angle.
noun:  (US) A look, a glance.
noun:  (US, ethnic slur, derogatory) A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To lean, tilt or incline.
verb:  (transitive) To bias or skew.
verb:  (Scotland, intransitive) To lie or exaggerate.
adjective:  Sloping; oblique; slanted.

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