slope
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
mathematics
military
politics
sciences
war
Etymology: From aslope (adjective, adverb).
Inflected forms:
form: slopes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: slopes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sloping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sloped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sloped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I had to climb a small slope to get to the site.
a steep slope
gloss: The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The road has a very sharp downward slope at that point.
gloss: The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points lying on the line.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The slope of this line is 0.5
gloss: The slope of the line tangent to the curve at the given point.
pos: noun
tags: countable
proscribed
sometimes
uncountable
examples: The slope of a parabola increases linearly with x.
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The slope of an asphalt shingle roof system should be 4:12 or greater.
gloss: A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
ethnic
offensive
slur
uncountable
vulgar
gloss: A hasty departure.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
dated
slang
uncountable
examples: "I did a slope," acknowledged the clerk frankly. "I broke all the records down that passage, I bet you. You'll laugh, I dare say, and think you would have stood, but you don't know what it was like. […]"
gloss: To tend steadily upward or downward.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The road slopes sharply down at that point.
If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough.
St. Lawrence Station is very prettily situated, high cliffs on the left, and the lush vegetation of the Undercliff sloping down to the sea on the right.
gloss: To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment
gloss: To try to move surreptitiously.
pos: verb
tags: UK
colloquial
usually
examples: I sloped in through the back door, hoping my boss wouldn't see me.
She watched him disappear out of sight, before sloping back to her room.
gloss: To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.
pos: verb
examples: The order was given to "slope arms".
Synonyms: first derivative
gradient
Chinaman
Chink
cant
elevation
grade
slope
Related words: horizontal
gentle
inclined
slanted
sloped
tilted
acclivous
steep
sheer
precipitous
vertical
Derived words: backslope
beginner slope
bunny slope
continental slope
counterslope
downslope
footslope
foreslope
glide slope
hillslope
interslope
low-slope roof
midslope
mountainslope
North Slope Borough
nursery slope
palaeoslope
paleoslope
postslope
recurrent slope linea
roadslope
sideslope
ski slope
ski-slope nose
ski slope nose
slippery slope
slope bunny
Slope County
slope dragonet
slope field
slopehead
slopelike
slopeness
slope off
sloper
slopeside
slopestyle
slopewash
slopeways
slopewise
sloping
slopy
South Western Slopes
South West Slopes
steep-slope roof
The Slopes
toeslope
underslope
upslope
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