aslant

aslant
adverb (not before noun) formal not straight up or down, but across at an angle - aslant adjective asleep adjective (not before noun)
1 sleeping: Quiet! The baby is asleep. | fast/sound asleep (=very deeply asleep): You'll be fast asleep by the time we get home.
2 fall asleep
a) to begin to sleep: I always fall asleep watching TV.
b) literary used to mean that someone dies when you want to avoid saying this directly
3 an arm or leg that is asleep has been in one position for too long, so you cannot feel it
-see also: go to sleep sleep 1 (3)
4 half asleep not paying attention to something because you are tired
A/S level /"eI 'es "levl/ noun
1 (U) an examination in British schools, for pupils who have taken gcses and want to study a wider range of subjects than is possible at a level
2 (C) an examination at this standard in a particular subject

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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  • Aslant — A*slant , adv. & a. [Pref. a + slant.] Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely. [1913 Webster] [The shaft] drove through his neck aslant. Dryden. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Aslant — A*slant , prep. In a slanting direction over; athwart. [1913 Webster] There is a willow grows aslant a brook. Shak. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • aslant — index oblique (slanted) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • aslant — (adv.) early 14c., o slant, lit. on slant, from ON (Cf. on) + SLANT (Cf. slant). As a preposition from c.1600 …   Etymology dictionary

  • aslant — ► ADVERB ▪ at a slant. ► PREPOSITION ▪ across at a slant …   English terms dictionary

  • aslant — [ə slant′] adv. on a slant; slantingly; obliquely prep. on a slant across adj. slanting …   English World dictionary

  • aslant — 1. adjective slanting 2. adverb at a slant , Finnish: , 3. preposition diagonally over or across …   Wiktionary

  • aslant — adv. & prep. adv. obliquely or at a slant. prep. obliquely across (lay aslant the path) …   Useful english dictionary

  • aslant — I. adverb or adjective Date: 14th century in a slanting direction ; obliquely II. preposition Date: 1596 over or across in a slanting direction …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • aslant — /euh slant , euh slahnt /, adv. 1. at a slant; slantingly; obliquely. adj. 2. slanting or on a slant; oblique. prep. 3. slantingly across; athwart. [1250 1300; ME on slont, on slent on slope, at a SLANT] * * * …   Universalium

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