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slope
[ slohp ]
verb (used without object)
- to have or take an inclined or oblique direction or angle considered with reference to a vertical or horizontal plane; slant.
- to move at an inclination or obliquely:
They sloped gradually westward.
verb (used with object)
- to direct at a slant or inclination; incline from the horizontal or vertical:
The sun sloped its beams.
- to form with a slope or slant:
to slope an embankment.
noun
- ground that has a natural incline, as the side of a hill.
- inclination or slant, especially downward or upward.
- deviation from the horizontal or vertical.
- an inclined surface.
- Usually slopes. hills, especially foothills or bluffs:
the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
- Mathematics.
- the tangent of the angle between a given straight line and the x- axis of a system of Cartesian coordinates.
- the derivative of the function whose graph is a given curve evaluated at a designated point.
- Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of East Asian origin, especially a Vietnamese or other South Asian.
slope
/ sləʊp /
verb
- to lie or cause to lie at a slanting or oblique angle
- intr (esp of natural features) to follow an inclined course
many paths sloped down the hillside
- intr; foll by off, away, etc to go furtively
- tr military (formerly) to hold (a rifle) in the slope position (esp in the command slope arms )
noun
- an inclined portion of ground
- plural hills or foothills
- any inclined surface or line
- the degree or amount of such inclination
- maths
- (of a line) the tangent of the angle between the line and another line parallel to the x- axis
- the first derivative of the equation of a curve at a given point
- (formerly) the position adopted for British military drill when the rifle is rested on the shoulder
- slang.a person from Southeast Asia, especially a Vietnamese
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Derived Forms
- ˈsloper, noun
- ˈslopingness, noun
- ˈsloping, adjective
- ˈslopingly, adverb
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Other Words From
- sloping·ly adverb
- sloping·ness noun
- un·sloped adjective
- un·sloping adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of slope1
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Idioms and Phrases
- slope off, Chiefly British Slang. to make one's way out slowly or furtively.
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Example Sentences
Historically, conservatives treated the minimum wage as an affront to free labor and a step on a slippery slope towards statism.
Swiss leaders also dispel the “slippery slope” idea by repeatedly rejecting substantial minimum wage increases.
The slippery slope argument is a way of keeping the hands-off-the-Internet-entirely philosophy going.
Yes, there are signs that even hipsters are starting to prefer Central Park to Park Slope.
Nobody else thought that his patch, on a 60-degree angled slope, was viable as a vineyard.
I turned away from the bank and raced up a long slope to a saw-backed ridge that promised largely of unobstructed view.
It lit up every ridge and hollow for two or three seconds, and showed me four riders tearing up the slope at a high run.
We followed the upland past the end of the Stone till we found a slope that didn't require wings for descent.
As we stepped from behind the rock three riders came into sight on the opposite slope of Lost River.
The lone pine on the stone cap of Gander Knob waved its farewell, and we clattered down the long slope into the great world.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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