SLOPE
\slˈə͡ʊp], \slˈəʊp], \s_l_ˈəʊ_p]\
Definitions of SLOPE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal; "a five-degree gradient"
By Princeton University
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the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal; "a five-degree gradient"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The part of a continent descending toward, and draining to, a particular ocean; as, the Pacific slope.
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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.
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Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.
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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.
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To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.
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To depart; to disappear suddenly.
By Oddity Software
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The part of a continent descending toward, and draining to, a particular ocean; as, the Pacific slope.
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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.
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Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.
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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.
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To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.
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To depart; to disappear suddenly.
By Noah Webster.
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An inclined line; a slant; surface inclining downward; as, the slope of a hill; that part of the land that descends toward the ocean.
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To incline; to slant.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Any incline down which a thing may slip: a direction downward.
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To form with a slope, or obliquely.
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To be inclined.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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