different between slanting vs sideways
slanting
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?slænt??/
- Rhymes: -ænt??
Adjective
slanting (comparative more slanting, superlative most slanting)
- Out of the perpendicular, not perpendicular.
Translations
Verb
slanting
- present participle of slant
Noun
slanting (plural slantings)
- The state or quality of being slanted.
Translations
Anagrams
- antlings, tanlings
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sideways
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sa?dwe?z/
Noun
sideways
- plural of sideway
- 2002, Joseph Brodsky, Cynthia L. Haven, Joseph Brodsky: Conversations, page 169:
- And he was just taking byways and sideways, travelling in the peripheries of civilization, yeah?
- 2006, David Haskell, Roundabout the USA, page 103:
- In time our way merged into a throng of cars flowing here and there on the highways and sideways of the north side of Los Angeles.
- 2013, Pitou van Dijck, The Impact of the IIRSA Road Infrastructure Programme on Amazonia, page 81:
- Expansion of economic activities resulted in the construction of a so—called fishbone pattern of roads and sideways.
- 2002, Joseph Brodsky, Cynthia L. Haven, Joseph Brodsky: Conversations, page 169:
Adjective
sideways (comparative more sideways, superlative most sideways)
- Moving or directed toward one side.
- Giving Mary a sideways glance, he said, […] .
- He gave the ball a sideways kick.
- (informal) Positioned sideways (with a side to the front).
- There was a stack of papers in front of each seat at the table, but each stack was sideways.
- (informal) Neither moving upward nor moving downward.
- Once we get out of this sideways economy, our figures will more accurately reflect what we're truly capable of.
- (chiefly US, colloquial) Not as planned; towards a worse outcome.
- We realized the project could go sideways very quickly if we didn't get the sales and marketing people on our side.
- (usually with "with", informal) In conflict (with); not compatible (with).
- He was constantly getting sideways with his boss till he got fired.
Translations
Adverb
sideways
- With a side to the front.
- Towards one side.
- “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
- Askance; sidelong.
- (informal) Neither upward nor downward.
Translations
Derived terms
- sideways-on
References
- sideways at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- waysides
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