(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.
Slope
Definition:
(v. i.) An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.
(v. i.) Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.
(a.) Sloping.
(adv.) In a sloping manner.
(v. t.) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.
(v. i.) To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.
(v. i.) To depart; to disappear suddenly.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this review, we demonstrate that serum creatinine does not provide an adequate estimate of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and contrary to recent teachings, that the slope of the reciprocal of serum creatinine vs time does not permit an accurate assessment of the rate of progression of renal disease.
(2) Regression curves indicate that although all three types of pulmonary edema can be characterized by slightly different slopes, the differences are statistically insignificant.
(3) With profound blockade, the slope of the edrophonium dose-response relationship was significantly flatter (P less than 0.05) than that of neostigmine.
(4) The slope of the thermal inactivation curve of enterotoxin A in beef bouillon (initial pH 6.2) was found to be approximately 27.8 C (50 F) with three different concentrations of toxin.
(5) The summary statistics examined are (a) the slope of the least-squares regression of the marker, (b) the average of the last r measurements, and (c) the difference between the averages of the last r and the first s measurements.
(6) A patient with mitral stenosis and atrial flutter was found to have a normal diastolic closure rate (E to F slope).
(7) With cortisol and cortisol-21-aldehyde, product inhibition patterns showed only slope effects with steroid product and NAD+, suggesting a "random" mechanism.
(8) A positive correlation was found between the content in the eluted cell fractions of LH and dynorphin-like immunoreactivity with a correlation coefficient and a slope of the regression line close to one.
(9) From the stress-strain curve the following values were selected: strain, stress, and slope at 80 mmHg equivalent pressure (1 mmHg = 133.3 Pa); maximum stress, strain, and slope; and breaking stress, strain, and slope if the sample broke.
(10) When age and smoking habits were controlled for, slope of phase III was significantly related to hospitalization due to respiratory disease in general and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), whereas closing volume and closing capacity were marginally related to hospitalization due to respiratory disease in general but not to hospitalization due to COPD.
(11) To evaluate threshold estimates under these conditions, computer simulations of experiments with small numbers of trials were performed by using psychometric functions based on a model of two types of noise: stimulus-related noise (affecting slope) and extraneous noise (affecting upper asymptote).
(12) It is shown that when a constant current is applied such that a stable equilibrium and rhythmic firing are present, the following predictions are inherent in the HH system of equations: (a) Small instantaneous voltage perturbations to the axon given at points along its firing spike result in phase resetting curves (when new phase versus old phase is plotted) with an average slope of 1.
(13) A "peeling" technique was used to estimate the time constants (tau 0 and tau 1) and coefficients (a0 and a1) of the first two exponential terms of the series of exponential terms whose sum represented the slope of the voltage response.
(14) No significant correlation was found between the pulmonary valve e-f slope and the pulmonary artery pressures.
(15) We should be grateful the School Food Trust has established this now, before we end up falling down a slippery slope back towards the dreaded Turkey Twizzler that Jamie Oliver campaigned to banish," he added.
(16) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
(17) The slope of Phase III in both N2 and He washouts was influenced in an inconstant fashion, probably reflecting differing contributions from topographic and intraregional inhomogeneities of ventilation in these subjects.
(18) The slope of this line was substantially steeper than the regression line slope for treadmill running.4.
(19) Pulmonary mean filling pressure increased and the slope-gradient of pulmonary VR-curve decreased, indicating an increased resistance to venous return from the pulmonary circulation.
(20) It is suggested that the measurement of functional residual capacity, closing volume, and the slope of the alveolar plateau (phase III in the single breath nitrogen washout technique) might give more valuable information.