slant vs windrow

slant

noun
  • A sloped surface or line. 

  • 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 pan with a sloped bottom used for holding paintbrushes. 

  • 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. 

windrow

noun
  • A ridge or berm at a perimeter 

  • The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth onto other land to improve it. 

  • A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade. 

  • A long snowbank along the side of a road. 

  • A line of leaves etc heaped up by the wind. 

  • A similar streak of seaweed etc on the surface of the sea formed by Langmuir circulation. 

  • A line of gravel left behind by the edge of a grader’s blade. 

  • A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field. 

verb
  • To arrange (e.g. new-made hay) in lines or windrows. 

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