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Slant vs Lant - What's the difference?

slant | lant |

As verbs the difference between slant and lant

is that slant is to lean, tilt or incline while lant is .

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

    lant

    English

    Etymology 1

    Alteration of earlier .

    Noun

    (-)
  • Aged urine.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To flavor (ale) with aged urine.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

  • (UK, dialect, Northern England) (the card game)
    • (Halliwell)

    Etymology 3

    Compare (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several species of slender marine fishes of the genus Ammedytes''. The common European species (''A. tobianus'') and the American species (''A. Americanus ) live on sandy shores, buried in the sand, and are caught in large quantities for bait.
    • Synonyms
    * launce * sand eel (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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