Sloping
['slopɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) having a slanting form or direction; 'an area of gently sloping hills'; 'a room with a sloping ceiling' .
Typed by Dave--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slope
(a.) Inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon, or from a horizontal or other right line; oblique; declivous; slanting.
Editor: Lois
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Inclining, slanting, declivous, prone.
Edited by Jeanne
Examples
- 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 .
- The noble bust, the sloping shoulders, the graceful neck, the dark eyes and black ringlets were all there;--but her face? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of grizzled brown. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- A long, sloping hillside, dotted with gray limestone boulders, stretched behind us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She grumbles so much about the stairs at Heston; and the girl is to have that sloping attic over your room and mamma's. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The garden sloping to the road, the house standing in it, the green pales, and the laurel hedge, everything declared they were arriving. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- She could see Orion sloping up. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- You must make a new garden at what is now the back of the house; which will be giving it the best aspect in the world, sloping to the south-east. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The boat touched the edge of the patch of inn lawn, sloping gently to the water. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Edited by Jeanne