Slope vs. Slant — What's the Difference?

The angle of deviation from horizontal or vertical.

A particular point of view or bias in presenting information.

The incline or descent of a terrain or surface.

A tilt or an inclined direction.

In mathematics, the slope or gradient of a line is a number that describes both the direction and the steepness of the line. Slope is often denoted by the letter m; there is no clear answer to the question why the letter m is used for slope, but its earliest use in English appears in O'Brien (1844) who wrote the equation of a straight line as "y = mx + b" and it can also be found in Todhunter (1888) who wrote it as "y = mx + c".Slope is calculated by finding the ratio of the "vertical change" to the "horizontal change" between (any) two distinct points on a line.

An oblique line or surface.

A surface of which one end or side is at a higher level than another; a rising or falling surface

To give a direction other than perpendicular or horizontal to; make diagonal; cause to slope

A person from East Asia, especially Vietnam.

To present so as to conform to a particular bias or appeal to a certain audience

(of a surface or line) be inclined from a horizontal or vertical line; slant up or down

To have or go in a direction other than perpendicular or horizontal; slope.

Move in an idle or aimless manner

A line, plane, course, or direction that is other than perpendicular or horizontal; a slope.

To diverge from the vertical or horizontal; incline

A sloping thing or piece of ground.

To move or walk

(Printing) A virgule.

To cause to slope

A personal point of view or opinion

An inclined line, surface, plane, position, or direction.

A bias

A stretch of ground forming a natural or artificial incline

Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a person of East Asian birth or ancestry.

A deviation from the horizontal.

A slope; an incline, inclination.

The amount or degree of such deviation.

A sloped surface or line.

The rate at which an ordinate of a point of a line on a coordinate plane changes with respect to a change in the abscissa.

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

The tangent of the angle of inclination of a line, or the slope of the tangent line for a curve or surface.

(typography) slash, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text.

Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a person of East Asian birth or ancestry.

An oblique movement or course.

An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.

(biology) A sloping surface in a culture medium.

The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.

A pan with a sloped bottom used for holding paintbrushes.

(mathematics) The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if the line is horizontal, undefined if it is vertical.

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

(mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.

A palette or similar container with slants or sloping depressions.

The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise to the units of horizontal length (sometimes referred to as run).

A sarcastic remark; shade, an indirect mocking insult.

A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.

(slang) An opportunity, particularly to go somewhere.

(intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.

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

(transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.

A point of view, an angle.

To try to move surreptitiously.

(US) A look, a glance.

(military) To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.

A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.

(obsolete) Sloping.

(ambitransitive) To lean, tilt or incline.

(obsolete) slopingly

(transitive) To bias or skew.

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.

To lie or exaggerate.

Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.

Sloping; oblique; slanted.

The part of a continent descending toward, and draining to, a particular ocean; as, the Pacific slope.

To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.

Sloping.

To turn from a direct line; to give an oblique or sloping direction to; as, to slant a line.

In a sloping manner.

A slanting direction or plane; a slope; as, it lies on a slant.

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.

An oblique reflection or gibe; a sarcastic remark.

To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.

Inclined from a direct line, whether horizontal or perpendicular; sloping; oblique.

To depart; to disappear suddenly.

A biased way of looking at or presenting something

An elevated geological formation;

Degree of deviation from a horizontal plane;

The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal;

Lie obliquely;

Be at an angle;

Present with a bias;

A measure of the steepness of a line.

To incline or bend from a vertical position;

In mathematics, the rate of change of one variable with respect to another.

Heel over;

A surface that doesn't lie flat or horizontal.

A sloping direction or angle.

A deviation from the direct or straightforward.

No, slant can be figurative, such as a bias in writing.

Yes, a roof can have a slope (measurable incline) and a slant (tilt or direction of incline).

Yes, slant can refer to a particular bias or viewpoint in literature or journalism.

In geography, slope refers to the incline or gradient of the land or terrain.

It's calculated as the ratio of the vertical change to the horizontal change between two points.

In casual contexts, they might be, but they often have distinct meanings based on the situation.

It could refer to the angle or direction of light, often used metaphorically.

No, slant can also refer to a particular perspective or bias.

Not always, but slope often refers to a quantifiable steepness or gradient.

In math, slope represents the rate of change of one variable concerning another.