Slant vs Diagonal - What's the difference?
slant | diagonal |
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.
(geometry) Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).
Having a slanted or oblique direction, lines or markings.
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Pertaining to the front left and back right (or the front right and back left) legs of a quadruped.
something arranged diagonally or obliquely
a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
a punctuation mark used to separate related items of information
(geometry) a diagonal line or plane
(geometry) a line joining non-adjacent vertices of a polygon.
As nouns the difference between slant and diagonal
is that slant is a slope or incline while diagonal is something arranged diagonally or obliquely.As a verb slant
is to lean, tilt or incline.As an adjective diagonal is
joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).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 verbsdiagonal
English
(wikipedia diagonal)Adjective
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