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noun

Slope n.

An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.

Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon. " buildings the summit and slope of a hill." "Under the slopes of Pisgah."

The part of a continent descending toward, and draining to, a particular ocean; as, the Pacific slope. Note: A slope, considered as descending, is a declivity; considered as ascending, an acclivity.

Slope of a plane (Geom.), the direction of the plane; as, parallel planes have the same slope.

verb

Slope v. t. (past & past part. sloped; pres. part. sloping) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.

Slope v. i.

To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.

To depart; to disappear suddenly. (Slang)

adjective

Slope adj. Sloping. "Down the slope hills." "A bank not steep, but gently slope."

adverb

Slope adv. In a sloping manner. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Slope'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Slope" Quotes from Famous Books

... said. "I can't say exactly what Gentleman Once did when his wife died. He might have gone down to a deeper depth than Danny's. He might have risen higher than he had ever been before. From what I knew of his character he would never have gone down an easy slope as Danny has done. He might have dropped plump at first and then climbed up. Anyway, he had the memory of the last two ...

— Children of the Bush • Henry Lawson

... frequent visitor at Belvoir, meeting other members of the Fairfax family, among them Thomas, sixth Lord Fairfax, who finally engaged him to survey a great estate which had been granted him by the king on the slope of ...

— American Men of Action • Burton E. Stevenson

... streak along the horizon, streaked with the clearest of amber and rose, as we came to a crossroad, a mile on, and I got a glimpse of a signpost. If its information was correct, I had made the turns in the road aright, and we were within half a mile of our destination. A minute later we topped a slope, and I marked down a large, stone house which answered the description I had from the club stableman. It was approached by a driveway bordered ...

— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various

... step, and green pools of stagnant water lay on both sides of the narrow pathway. But no fiery dragon came out of the reeds to meet him; and so he walked on and on till he came to the rugged mountain land which bordered the western shore of the sea. Then he climbed one slope after another, until at last he stood on the summit of a gray peak from which he could see the whole country spread out around him. Then downward and onward he went again, but his way led him through dark mountain glens, and along ...

— Old Greek Stories • James Baldwin

... among the meadows that slope from the shores of the Swiss lakes to the roots of their lower mountains. There, mingled with the taller gentians and the white narcissus, the grass grows deep and free; and as you follow the winding mountain paths, beneath arching boughs all veiled and dim with blossom—paths ...

— French Art - Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture • W. C. Brownell

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