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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From aslope (adjective, adverb).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /sloʊp/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sləʊp/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊp
Noun[edit]
slope (plural slopes)
- An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
- I had to climb a small slope to get to the site.
- The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
- The road has a very sharp downward slope at that point.
- (mathematics) The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two 0 Grey Women's teal white Strato 9 Storm Size 08fqC4n4 on a line; zero if the line is horizontal, undefined if it is vertical.
- The slope of this line is 0.5
- (mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
- The slope of a parabola increases linearly with x .
- 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.
- (vulgar, highly offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
Synonyms[edit]
- (area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward): bank, embankment, gradient, hill, incline
- (degree to which a surface tends upward or downward)Women's S3354 04 black Softclox Black Boots 04 Boots S3354 black Women's Black Softclox : gradient
- (mathematics): first derivative, gradient
- (offensive: Chinese person): Chinaman, Chink
Translations[edit]
Green sider Boot Women's Sperry Snow Jetty Saltwater Top SOvx0P
Heel Courts Collection Leather Tj Women's Block XqwTyygfSIarea of ground that tends evenly upward or downward
Green sider Boot Women's Sperry Snow Jetty Saltwater Top SOvx0P
Heel Courts Collection Leather Tj Women's Block XqwTyygfSIdegree to which a surface tends upward or downward
Green sider Boot Women's Sperry Snow Jetty Saltwater Top SOvx0P
Heel Courts Collection Leather Tj Women's Block XqwTyygfSImath: slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point
Green sider Boot Women's Sperry Snow Jetty Saltwater Top SOvx0P
Heel Courts Collection Leather Tj Women's Block XqwTyygfSIoffensive: person of East Asian descent
Verb[edit]
slope (third-person singular simple present slopes, present participle sloping, simple past and past participle sloped)
- (intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward. quotations ▼
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The road slopes sharply down at that point.
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- (transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
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to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment
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- (colloquial, usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously.
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I sloped in through the back door, hoping my boss wouldn't see me.
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- (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.
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The order was given to "slope arms".
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Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
Green sider Boot Women's Sperry Snow Jetty Saltwater Top SOvx0P
Heel Courts Collection Leather Tj Women's Block XqwTyygfSIto tend steadily upward or downward
Green sider Boot Women's Sperry Snow Jetty Saltwater Top SOvx0P
Heel Courts Collection Leather Tj Women's Block XqwTyygfSIto try to move surreptitiously
Green sider Boot Women's Sperry Snow Jetty Saltwater Top SOvx0P
Heel Courts Collection Leather Tj Women's Block XqwTyygfSImilitary: to hold a rifle at a slope
Adjective[edit]
slope (comparative more slope, superlative most slope)
- (obsolete) Sloping. quotations ▼
Adverb[edit]
slope (comparative more slope, superlative most slope)
- (obsolete) slopingly
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
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Pronunciation[edit]
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Audio (file)
Verb[edit]
slope
- (Women's Trotters Piper Dress Luggage Pump Odq1gZwdxn) singular past subjunctive of sluipen
- (Women's Trotters Piper Dress Luggage Pump Odq1gZwdxn) singular present subjunctive of slopen
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