Slant vs Declivity - 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.
(geomorphology) the downward slope of a hill
*1899 , Joseph Conrad,
*:A rocky cliff appeared, mounds of turned–up earth by the shore, houses on a hill, others with iron roofs, amongst a waste of excavations, or hanging to the declivity .
a downward bend in a path
Slant is a related term of declivity.
As nouns the difference between slant and declivity
is that slant is a slope or incline while declivity is (geomorphology) the downward slope of a hill.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.