(v. i.) To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.
(v. t.) To turn from a direct line; to give an oblique or sloping direction to; as, to slant a line.
(n.) A slanting direction or plane; a slope; as, it lies on a slant.
(n.) An oblique reflection or gibe; a sarcastic remark.
(v. i.) Inclined from a direct line, whether horizontal or perpendicular; sloping; oblique.
Example Sentences:
(1) Epicanthal folds were present in 46%, mongoloid slanting of the lids in 72% of cases.
(2) This study suggests that the BD VACUTAINER agar slant is an acceptable alternative to the Septi-Chek system for routine blood cultures.
(3) Revised culturing methods utilizing the elements carbon dioxide, sodium chloride, calcium and magnesium in Sabouraud's Agar slant aerobically may help recover the adult micro-organism for positive identification.
(4) In experiment 2 newborns were desensitized to changes in slant during familiarization trials, and subsequently strongly preferred a different shape to the familiarized shape in a new orientation.
(5) On the basis of their symptoms, it is suggested that infantile eczema is not an essential sign of the disorder, whereas the high frequency of hernia, strabism and upward slant of the palpebral fissures is underestimated in the literature.
(6) Comparison of this patient with thirteen previously published cases of this trisomy reveals a pattern of common features including: peculiar craniofacial dysmorphism--facial asymmetry, antimongoloid slant, narrow or short palpebral fissures, prominent nose, long upper lip, micro or retrognathia, high arched palate, low set ears, malformed ears, protuberant occiput--, abnormal fingers and toes, short neck, mental and growth retardation, cardiopathy, respiratory distress etc..
(7) Normal quantitative circumferential profile limits were established for a 30 degrees bilateral rotating slant-hole (RSH) collimator tomographic system.
(8) Mutant strains were genetically stable and did not revert spontaneously for at least 1 year when stocked on nutrient agar slants.
(9) We report on a Japanese girl with short stature, malar hypoplasia, up-slanting palpebral fissures, blue sclerae and thin, stiff and slightly brownish hair.
(10) Nowhere was this truer than him lavishing tens of thousands of pounds on slanted private polling rather than in helping friends and colleagues get elected."
(11) We also conclude that vertical declination is responded to globally as a slant around a horizontal axis but that other forms of orientation disparity are ineffective.
(12) SPECT of the brain was performed 30 minutes after intravenous administration of 74 MBq (2 mCi) 123I-IMP using a rotating gamma camera equipped with a 30-degree slant-hole collimator.
(13) A proximal 19q duplication was observed in lymphocytes of a young boy with mental retardation, dysmorphism (weight excess, macrocephaly, downward slanted palpebral fissures, hypertelorism, broad nose, typical mouth), without visceral malformation.
(14) Similarly a line segment of constant length, a bar, rotating on the frontal plane appears slanted in depth.
(15) Rapid presumptive identification of S. aureus, particularly on the agar slant of biphasic blood culture bottles can be performed by modified slide clumping factor tests.
(16) The extent of coverage and the slant put on a particular case by a newspaper in Duluth, Minnesota, is closely examined in support of the thesis.
(17) Jordan Henderson justified his selection but Lallana is becoming an elegant frustration and Hodgson’s attempts to put a positive slant on the match did not extend to Wilshere’s performance.
(18) Organisms grown in a liquid overlay on a semisolid slant (biphasic medium) showed slow logarithmic growth and the presence of chromatoid material.
(19) Seeking to fast-track a controversial, Islamist-slanted constitution, Morsi awarded himself total executive control , allowing himself to bypass judicial procedures to ensure the text was put to a public vote without further debate.
(20) Koenderink and van Doorn's theory, that the basis of stereoscopic slant perception is the deformation component of the disparity, field, was tested for slant around a horizontal axis, which produces images with a vertical ramp of horizontal disparity (horizontal shear) characterised by a global orientation disparity at the vertical meridian.