An easel or slanted table is used to keep the drawing surface in a suitable position, which is generally more horizontal than the position used in painting.

The fossil record is heavily slanted toward organisms with hard parts, leaving most groups of soft-bodied organisms with little to no fossil record.

Its eye patch is distinctively slanted forwards, rather than parallel to the body axis.

The slanted 3D look of the levels is used to add hidden passages in the ceiling and right-side walls.

The échoppe, a tool with a slanted oval section, is also used for " swelling " lines.

The War of the Jews is heavily slanted against the leaders of the revolt, portraying the rebellion as weak and unorganized, and even blaming the Jews for causing the war.

Lovecraft's celebrated short story, The Call of Cthulhu ( 1928 ), the titular entity emerges from the vast and ancient alien city of R ' lyeh, which is described in terms of " non-Euclidean geometry " and contains angles which are " all wrong " ( appearing acute but behaving as if obtuse, for example ) and planes which could be horizontal or slanted depending on how the observer looks at them.

The terminology of historical musicology is " slanted by the needs and history of a particular music (' classical music ').

The key difference is that the number sign has true horizontal strokes while the sharp sign has two slanted parallel lines which must rise from left to right, in order to avoid being confused with the musical staff lines.

D ' Nealian ( named after its designer, Donald Neal Thurber ) is a derivative of the Palmer Method and uses a slanted, serifed manuscript form followed by an entirely joined and looped cursive of the typical American variety.

Getty-Dubay ( named after its designers, Barbara Getty and Inga Dubay ) is an Italic hand and uses a slightly slanted, optionally serifed Italic manuscript followed by a partially joined, unlooped Italic cursive with letter-forms similar to those of Italic manuscript.

For example, Linotype has slanted serifs on the capital S, while Monotype's are vertical, and the addition of a serif on the number 5 in Linotype's that is absent in Monotype's.

In shinty, a player is allowed to play the ball in the air and is allowed to use both sides of the stick, called a caman which is wooden and slanted on both sides.

The ball is played using a caman, which is a stick of about 3 ft long with two slanted faces.

It proved unpopular as it did not include a mouse ( which is an essential part of the IIGS, much like the Macintosh ); the keyboard, although functional, does not mimic all the features and functions of the Apple Desktop Bus keyboard, as well as lacking a numeric keypad ; and some cards designed for the new 16-bit machine did not fit in the Apple IIe's slanted case either.

If this is slanted sloppily the overall figure may more closely resemble an uppercase Y.

The theatre has a relatively low ceiling at stage level and all of its seating except for boxes on the two side walls is on one level slanted back from the stage.

The underside of the plectrum must be appropriately slanted and entirely smooth, so that the jack will not " hang " ( get caught on the string ) when, after sounding a note, it is moved back down below the level of the string.

The long-closed Bent Door Café and trading post, built by Bob Harris in 1947 on the site of the 1940s Kozy Kottage Kamp, incorporates portions of a former air traffic control tower decommissioned after World War II ; the tower windows originally slanted toward the runway, so the door is bent to match.

This is especially visible in the t, r, f, and C. Arial employs slanted stroke cuts.

These phones have a front which is slanted / angled and have a dialpad, a small 1 line LED screen and a handset.

This earliest question mark was a decoration of one of these dots, with the " lightning flash " perhaps meant to denote intonation ( or a tilde or titlo, named after the Latin word titulus, as in “ ·~ ”, like those wavy and more or less slanted marks used in lots of medieval texts for denoting various things such as abbreviations, and that would become later various diacritics or ligatures or modified letters used in the Latin script ), and perhaps associated with early musical notation like neumes.

20th Century Fox logo used from 1953 to 1987 created for the new CinemaScope process with the slanted " 0 "

The roots of needlepoint go back thousands of years to the ancient Egyptians, who used small slanted stitches to sew up their canvas tents.

The normal position had the upright ( Roman ) form of a given character, and on the auxiliary, the slanted ( Italic ) form of that character would be used, but this could also be the boldface form or even a different font entirely.

Methods used for emphasis in western texts but inappropriate for Chinese, for example underlining and setting text in artificially slanted type ( frequently incorrectly called " italics "), are often used instead.

This ceiling, when used, typically only covers the back half of the tipi and is slanted slightly upwards to the front, draining water to the rear and allowing smoke from fire to vent out of the top of the tipi.

The space was later used for the installation of an auxiliary fuel tank ; road range was thereby increased to, The pistol and vision ports in the turret were removed, and the engine's radiator housing was simplified by changing the slanted sides to straight sides.

Many crevasses are small or slanted, and the fallen climber may be able to escape by digging or wiggling out ; but if the climber is hanging in midair, one of several rescue techniques will need to be used.

The symbol commonly used to represent a Gorsedd is a triple line, the middle line upright and the outer two slanted towards the top of the centre, thus: < tt >/|

Hershey's Kit Kat packaging and advertising in the USA has differed from the branding used in every other country where it is sold, although in 2002 Hershey Kit Kats finally started to adopt the slanted ellipse logo used worldwide by Nestlé ( though the ellipse is red and the text is white, rather than the other way around ).

But it is also used when something is slanted in the direction of a bend, as in the coat of Surrey County Council, England.

For this to be realised, wood and stone must be used for the walls, with slanted slate roofs.

A popular view is that the slanted bottom beam is a foot rest, however there is no evidence of foot rests ever being used during crucifixion, and it has a deeper meaning.

Michelotti was again approached for styling, and he came up with a car that used almost all body panels from the Herald, combined with a new front end with a slanted " Chinese Eye " 4-headlamp design.

Due to the use of Audio-Animatronics, a live full-bodied Muppet and other similar effects, the show is sometimes referred to as " Muppet * Vision 4-D " ( which was used in the Walt Disney World Explorer application, displayed as " Jim Henson's Muppet * Vision < s > 3-D </ s > 4-D " with a slanted red strikethrough on " 3-D ").

Most Park Lanes had a " Breezeway " window, a powered reverse slanted rear window that could be lowered into the body, first used on the Mercury Turnpike Cruiser and the 1958-60 Lincoln Continental.

The Custom can be differentiated from the Deluxe by its use of the " classic Tele "- style neck & headstock, as well as the " ashtray " style bridge and single-coil slanted bridge pickup also used by all other Telecaster models.

The Russian abacus, the schoty ( счёты ), usually has a single slanted deck, with ten beads on each wire ( except one wire which has four beads, for quarter-ruble fractions.

After the firm's first plan was discarded due to a need for more office space, Cobb developed a new plan around a towering parallelogram, slanted away from the Trinity Church and accented by a wedge cut into each narrow side.

Mencken's trial reports were heavily slanted against the prosecution and the jury, which was " unanimously hot for Genesis.

This and further episodes use a slanted 3D look for the levels.

* Horn timber, a slanted timber extension of the keel for mounting a counter transom.

In likely landing spots for gliders and parachutists, the Germans emplaced slanted poles with sharpened tops, which the troops called Rommelspargel (" Rommel's asparagus ").

The spinettone, Italian for " big spinet ", was a large, multi-choired spinet ( a harpsichord in which the strings are slanted to save space ), with disposition 1 x 8 ', 1 x 4 '; most spinets have the simple disposition 1 x 8 '.

Observe ( for example, by looking at the See also or References sections below ) that this article is slanted more toward the marketing side.

It also means most of the engine is very easy to access for maintenance, with the exception of the exhaust manifold and spark plugs, which are " underneath " the slanted cylinders.

Schräge Musik, derived from the German colloquialism for " Jazz Music "( the German word " schräg " literally means " slanted " or " oblique ") was the name given to installations of upward-firing autocannon mounted in night fighters by the Luftwaffe and Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service during World War II, with the first victories for each occurring in May 1943.

Some cards designed for the new 16-bit machine did not fit in the Apple IIe's slanted case, either.

Dow often warned his reporters about exchanging slanted stories for stock tips or free stock.

Branches that look beautiful when slanted are mostly chosen for this arrangement.