Slant vs Appearance - What's the difference?
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A slope or incline.
A bias, tendency, or leaning; a perspective or angle.
(pejorative, ethnic slur) A person of East Asian descent, supposed to have slanting eyes.
(obsolete) An oblique reflection or gibe; a sarcastic remark.
To lean, tilt or incline.
* Dodsley
To bias or skew.
The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye.
A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition.
Personal presence; look; aspect; mien.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= Apparent likeness; external show; how something appears to others.
* Bible, (w) ix. 15
* Bible, 1 (w) xvi. 7
* Bible, (w) vii. 24
The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(legal) The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or proceeding by which a party proceeded against places himself before the court, and submits to its jurisdiction.
(medical) Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient.
As nouns the difference between slant and appearance
is that slant is a slope or incline while appearance is the act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye.As a verb slant
is to lean, tilt or incline.slant
English
Noun
(en noun)- The house was built on a bit of a slant and was never quite level.
- It was a well written article, but it had a bit of a leftist slant .
Verb
(en verb)- If you slant the track a little more, the marble will roll down it faster.
- On the side of yonder slanting hill.
- The group tends to slant its policies in favor of the big businesses it serves.
Derived terms
* aslantAnagrams
* English ergative verbsappearance
English
Alternative forms
* appearaunceNoun
(en noun)- And now am come to see . . . It thy appearance answer loud report.
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
- There was upon the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire.
- For man looketh on the outward appearance .
- Judge not according to the appearance .
- Will he now retire, After appearance , and again prolong Our expectation?