slant vs sol

slant

noun
  • A pan with a sloped bottom used for holding paintbrushes. 

  • A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam. 

  • A palette or similar container with slants or sloping depressions. 

  • A crime committed for the purpose of being apprehended and transported to a major settlement. 

  • A point of view, an angle. 

  • A look, a glance. 

  • An opportunity, particularly to go somewhere. 

  • A depression on a palette with a sloping bottom for holding and mixing watercolours. 

  • A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian. 

  • A sloped surface or line. 

  • A slope; an incline, inclination. 

  • A sloping surface in a culture medium. 

  • Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text. 

  • An oblique movement or course. 

adj
  • Sloping; oblique; slanted. 

verb
  • To lean, tilt or incline. 

  • To bias or skew. 

  • To lie or exaggerate. 

sol

noun
  • A type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid. 

  • In a fixed-do system: the musical note G. 

  • A solar day on the planet Mars (equivalent to 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds). 

  • An old coin from France and some other countries worth 12 deniers. 

  • In full nuevo sol or new sol: the main currency unit of Peru which replaced the inti in 1991; also, a coin of this value. 

  • A former Spanish-American silver coin. 

  • In a movable-do or tonic sol-fa system: the fifth step in a scale, preceded by fa and followed by la. 

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