Slope
[sləʊp] or [slop]
Definition
(noun.) an elevated geological formation; 'he climbed the steep slope'; 'the house was built on the side of a mountain'.
(verb.) be at an angle; 'The terrain sloped down'.
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Definition
(v. i.) An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.
(v. i.) Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.
(a.) Sloping.
(adv.) In a sloping manner.
(v. t.) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.
(v. i.) To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.
(v. i.) To depart; to disappear suddenly.
Editor: Megan
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Inclination, acclivity or declivity.
v. a. Incline.
v. n. Incline, slant, take an oblique direction.
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Definition
n. any incline down which a thing may slip: a direction downward.—v.t. to form with a slope or obliquely.—v.i. to be inclined to slant: (slang) to decamp disappear.—adv. in a sloping manner.—adv. Slope′wise obliquely.—p.adj. Slō′ping inclining from a horizontal or other right line.—adv. Slō′pingly in a sloping manner: with a slope.—adj. Slō′py sloping inclined: oblique.
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Examples
- Dead there on the slope on such a day as this is. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It will be a very fine object from many parts of the park, and the flower-garden will slope down just before it, and be exceedingly pretty. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- He turned his head, sweating, and looked down the slope, then back toward where the girl was in the saddle with Pilar by her and Pablo just behind. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Robert Jordan looked down the green slope of the hillside to the road and the bridge. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He looked ahead at the slope and then he looked back toward Robert Jordan. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Troops from Lookout Valley carried the point of the mountain, and now hold the eastern slope and a point high up. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Then why not make a mine on the slope of the hill, and blow it up with electricity when the enemy are coming up? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The bottom slopes, you know, very steep. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The slopes on both sides were also covered with a heavy growth of timber. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The water lies between two very sharp slopes, with little branch valleys, and God knows where the drift will take you. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Blue evening had fallen over the cradle of snow and over the great pallid slopes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The army took up positions along the slopes of the mountains south of the city, as far west as Tacubaya. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- At last he came to the great shallow among the precipices and slopes, near the summit of the pass. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In like manner the guns were drawn by hand up the opposite slopes. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The lake was blue and fair, the meadows sloped down in sunshine on one side, the thick dark woods dropped steeply on the other. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Across the street, which sloped steeply, was another hotel with a similar wall and garden. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The city had been built upon the gently rolling foothills that in the dim and distant past had sloped down to meet the sea. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The mountainside sloped gently where he lay; but below it was steep and he could see the dark of the oiled road winding through the pass. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There was a window opposite the door, but low down, because the roof sloped. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Again the ground sloped, and again we came on the tracks. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Cleveland was a spacious, modern-built house, situated on a sloping lawn. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- He ascends to the top of a precipice by walking up the sloping hill behind, and he thus becomes practically acquainted with the principle of the _inclined plane_. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- It was a half-buried Crucifix, a little Christ under a little sloping hood, at the top of a pole. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- From the entrance into the lists, a gently sloping passage, ten yards in breadth, led up to the platform on which the tents were pitched. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- For this purpose a machine is made carried upon two wheels; the square surface has boards erected at the side, which, sloping outward, make a wider space above. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- There is a good room under the roof of the stables--with sloping rafters. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The green lane widened into a little circle of grass, where there was a small trickle of water at the bottom of a sloping bank. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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