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Slant vs Slank - What's the difference?

slant | slank |

As verbs the difference between slant and slank

is that slant is to lean, tilt or incline while slank is (slink).

As a noun slant

is a slope or incline.

slant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A slope or incline.
    • The house was built on a bit of a slant and was never quite level.
  • A bias, tendency, or leaning; a perspective or angle.
    • It was a well written article, but it had a bit of a leftist slant .
  • (pejorative, ethnic slur) A person of East Asian descent, supposed to have slanting eyes.
  • (obsolete) An oblique reflection or gibe; a sarcastic remark.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To lean, tilt or incline.
    • If you slant the track a little more, the marble will roll down it faster.
  • * Dodsley
    • On the side of yonder slanting hill.
  • To bias or skew.
    • The group tends to slant its policies in favor of the big businesses it serves.

    Derived terms

    * aslant

    Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs

    slank

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (slink)
  • * Frederick William Rolfe, The desire and pursuit of the whole
    • So, when priests slank up to him, he civilly warned them off: if they merited kindness and persisted, he gave them double
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