SLANTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slanting mean? 

• SLANTING (adjective)
  The adjective SLANTING has 1 sense:

1. having an oblique or slanted direction

  Familiarity information: SLANTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLANTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having an oblique or slanted direction

Synonyms:

aslant; aslope; diagonal; slanted; slanting; sloped; sloping

Similar:

inclined (at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position)

 Context examples 

With upraised forefinger and slanting head, he stood listening.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The second picture contained for foreground only the dim peak of a hill, with grass and some leaves slanting as if by a breeze.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Slanting or inclined in direction or course or position; neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angular.

(Oblique, NCI Thesaurus)

Then he crept to the door of the bedroom, and stood with slanting head listening intently.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If I do but close my eyes now, I can see the light upon his proud, handsome face, and see also my dear father, concerned at having touched upon so terrible a memory, shooting little slanting glances at him betwixt the puffs of his pipe.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I stood in a window, and looked across the ancient street at the opposite houses, recalling how I had watched them on wet afternoons, when I first came there; and how I had used to speculate about the people who appeared at any of the windows, and had followed them with my eyes up and down stairs, while women went clicking along the pavement in pattens, and the dull rain fell in slanting lines, and poured out of the water-spout yonder, and flowed into the road.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Down the slanting road there was riding a big, burly man, clad in a tunic of purple velvet and driving a great black horse as hard as it could gallop.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They strode on either side, each with an ear slanting towards him, but ere he had come to the end of his story the bowman had spun round upon his heel, and was hastening back the way they had come, breathing loudly through his nose.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then the front ranks began to surge slowly forward, to trot, to canter, to gallop, and in an instant the whole vast array was hurtling onward, line after line, the air full of the thunder of their cries, the ground shaking with the beat of their hoofs, the valley choked with the rushing torrent of steel, topped by the waving plumes, the slanting spears and the fluttering banderoles.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A spear's length in front of them sat the spare and long-limbed figure of Black Simon, the Norwich fighting man, his fierce, deep-lined face framed in steel, and the silk guidon marked with the five scarlet roses slanting over his right shoulder.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)