Slope definition
To move or walk.
verb
An inclined line, surface, plane, position, or direction.
noun
To diverge from the vertical or horizontal; incline.
A roof that slopes.
verb
A piece of ground that is not flat or level; rising or falling ground; specif., a portion of the side of a hill or mountain.
A ski slope.
noun
Any inclined line, surface, position, etc.; slant.
noun
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(slang) A native of East Asia, often, specif., of Vietnam.
noun
To have an upward or downward inclination; take an oblique direction; incline; slant.
verb
(chiefly brit., informal) To go or move (off, away, etc.), esp. in a leisurely or furtive way.
verb
(old poet.) That slopes; slanting; inclined.
adjective
The tangent of the angle of inclination of a line, or the slope of the tangent line for a curve or surface.
noun
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A stretch of ground forming a natural or artificial incline.
Ski slopes.
noun
To cause to slope.
verb
(offensive slang) Used as a disparaging term for a person of East Asian birth or ancestry.
noun
A deviation from the horizontal.
noun
The amount or degree of such deviation.
noun
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The rate at which an ordinate of a point of a line on a coordinate plane changes with respect to a change in the abscissa.
noun
The land area that drains into a given ocean.
noun
Deviation from the horizontal or vertical.
noun
The amount or degree of this.
noun
The trigonometric tangent of the positive angle formed between a given straight line and the x-axis of a pair of Cartesian coordinates.
noun
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The slope of the tangent line to a given curve at a designated point.
noun
(mathematics) The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if the line is horizontal, undefined if it is vertical.
The slope of this line is 0.5
noun
To cause to slope.
Sloped the path down the bank.
verb
Slope is defined as a surface where one end is higher than the other. It is also the difference in the angles of the surface.
An example of slope is the amount by which a surface veers downward.
noun
The definition of slope is to slant up or down, or to put something into a position where it slants up or down.
When a line goes from high to low, this is an example of slope.
verb
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An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
I had to climb a small slope to get to the site.
noun
The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
The road has a very sharp downward slope at that point.
noun
(mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
The slope of a parabola increases linearly with x.
noun
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).
The slope of an asphalt shingle roof system should be 4:12 or greater.
noun
(vulgar, highly offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
noun
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(intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.
The road slopes sharply down at that point.
verb
To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
To slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.
verb
(colloquial, usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously.
I sloped in through the back door, hoping my boss wouldn't see me.
verb
(military) To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.
The order was given to "slope arms".
verb
John Milton (1608-1674)
Down the slope hills.
adjective
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the slopes
- an area used or reserved for downhill skiing
idiom
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
the slopes
Origin of slope
- Probably from Middle English aslope sloping
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From aslope (a & adv).
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