slope
IPA: sɫˈoʊp
noun
- An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
- The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
- (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.
- (mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
- 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).
- (vulgar, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
verb
- (intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.
- (transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
- (UK, colloquial, usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously.
- (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.
adjective
- (obsolete) Sloping.
adverb
- (obsolete) slopingly
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Examples of "slope" in Sentences
- The surface of the steep slope is called a scarp.
- The area is on the slopes of the Lammermuir Hills.
- The southern slope of the hill descends more gently.
- The slopes are quite steep and many of the runs are mogul runs.
- The meager roads that wound up the steep slopes of the mountain.
- On the east the hill slopes less abruptly into the lower Palnis.
- Note also the steep slope of the banks of the creek in this photo.
- The steep slopes of the mountains show the vertical heave of the earth.
- The slight slope you see on the left is the beginning of the actual hill.
- The other passageway leads back to the opening of the cave with in steep slope.
- But this slope is not nearly as slippery as prescriptivists would have you believe.
- The latter is estimated as a function of the term slope, stock prices, credit spreads, bank lending conditions, oil prices, and the unemployment rate.
- (And the latter is estimated as a function of the term slope, stock prices, credit spreads, bank lending conditions, oil prices, and the unemployment rate).
- The probability is estimated as a function of the term slope of interest rates, stock prices, payroll employment, personal income, and industrial production.
- He found one more clip of .45 ACP 230 gr hardball and decided to shoot it through the skyscreens but was now slightly elevated up a little slope from the bench.
- The former probability is estimated as a function of the term slope of interest rates, stock prices, payroll employment, personal income, and industrial production.
- For the path on the Candiarei side has been lately swept away by a torrent of snow and water from the Marmolata, and the whole mountain slope is here one mass of soft red mud, more slippery than ice, full of pits and fissures, and very difficult.
- I believe, too, that there are many analogies between the spoil of skiing, which I dearly love, and doing theoretical work in science - the challenge and sense of excitement when the slope is a little more difficult than one feels comfortable with, or the boredom if too easy, or the probable disaster if too difficult.
- Scrambling up and down muddy cliffs choked with bracken, Thorsen tossed me tips for reading the bluffs: a vertical stripe of alders all the same size conceals an avalanche scar; evergreen trees growing at strange angles are a bad sign; a flattened bench, or shelf, partway down a slope is a terrible place to put a house, because it was created by slide action.