slant
noun/slɑːnt/
/slænt/
- a sloping position
- Her chin took on a stubborn slant.
- at a slant The sofa faced the fire at a slant.
- They held their spears at a slant.
- on the slant Cut the flower stems on the slant.
Oxford Collocations Dictionarypreposition- at a slant
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- slant (on something/somebody) a way of thinking about something, especially one that shows support for a particular opinion or point of view
- She put a new slant on the play.
- Her book looks at his writings from a feminist slant.
Extra ExamplesTopics Opinion and argumentc2- He puts his own particular slant on everything.
- That's a different slant on the causes of the First World War.
- The story gives a new slant to his character.
- The story has a definite liberal slant to it.
- an article with a right-wing slant
- the overall slant of newspaper coverage of the campaign
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- different
- modern
- new
- …
- give something
- have
- put
- …
- with a…slant
- slant on
- slant to
- …
- a/somebody’s slant on things
Word Originlate Middle English: variant of dialect slent, of Scandinavian origin, probably influenced by aslant.
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