| verb | lie obliquely “A scar slanted across his face” |
| verb | present with a bias “He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders” |
| verb | to incline or bend from a vertical position “She leaned over the banister” |
| verb | heel over “The tower is tilting” |
| adjective | having an oblique or slanted direction |
| adjective | favoring one person or side over another “a biased account of the trial” |
| slant | noun | degree of deviation from a horizontal plane |
| weight | noun | (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance |
| lean | noun | the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical |
| leaner | noun | (horseshoes) the throw of a horseshoe so as to lean against (but not encircle) the stake |
| tilt | noun | the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical |
| angle | noun | the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians |
| cant | noun | a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force |
| tilter | noun | a device for emptying a cask by tilting it without disturbing the dregs |
| pitch | noun | degree of deviation from a horizontal plane |
| diagonal | noun | a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric |