Slant vs Slane - What's the difference?
slant | slane |
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.
(Ireland) a spade for cutting turf or peat, consisting of an iron flat-bladed head and a long wooden shaft
:* 1997': Little McTiernan at the Door is giving out short-handl’d Peat-Cutters styl’d, by the Irish, ‘'''Slanes ’. — Thomas Pynchon, ''Mason & Dixon
As nouns the difference between slant and slane
is that slant is a slope or incline while slane is (ireland) a spade for cutting turf or peat, consisting of an iron flat-bladed head and a long wooden shaft.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.