slant vs heel

slant and heel both are nouns.

slant and heel both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
slant	Yes	No	Yes	No
heel	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, heel is a hyponym of slant; that is, heel is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than slant:

slant: to incline or bend from a vertical position
heel: tilt to one side

Other hyponyms of slant include incline, pitch, slope, weather, list, lean back, recline.

slant (noun)	heel (noun)
degree of deviation from a horizontal plane	the bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground and provides elevation
a biased way of looking at or presenting something	(golf) the part of the clubhead where it joins the shaft
	the lower end of a ship's mast
	the back part of the human foot
	one of the crusty ends of a loaf of bread
	someone who is morally reprehensible

slant (verb)	heel (verb)
present with a bias	put a new heel on
to incline or bend from a vertical position	strike with the heel of the club
heel over	perform with the heels
lie obliquely	follow at the heels of a person
	tilt to one side

Difference between slant and heel

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