slanting

UK/ˈslæntɪŋ/US/ˈslæntɪŋ/

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Slanting means sloping rather than upright or level. Slanting rain, a slanting roof, slanting light.

Slanting light late in the day is why photographers work at the ends of it — the low angle picks out texture that midday light flattens. Applied to reporting, slanting means biased, from the verb to slant a story.

Definitions of slanting

1adjectiveslantingSloping rather than upright or level.B2+
“The slanting roof of the attic meant we could only stand up in the middle.”

slanting is a quality of angle.

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slanting in the wild

The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar.
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Small but notable craters overlay the rim and inner walls on the northeast and northwest sides, and there is a slanting gouge in the eastern rim.
De Moraes (crater)
Another advantage of the helical twist is that the blades generate torque well from upward-slanting airflow.
Turby wind turbine
Sawtooth eels get their name from the human-like arrangement of inward-slanting teeth attached to the vomer bone in the roof of the mouth.
Sawtooth eel
Most of his works depict architectural details in New York City, and the way features of buildings are illuminated by slanting rays of light.
Tim Folzenlogen

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