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.

Noun

(en-noun)

Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.

*

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=

, volume=100, issue=2, page=106, magazine=(w) , title= Pixels or Perish , passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence , for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}

(legal) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.

* {{quote-news, year=2004, date=April 15, work=The Scotsman

, title= Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer , passage=For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year. }}

One who bears witness.

* Sir (Walter Scott)

infamous and perjured evidences