Definition of slope

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Slope (v. i.) 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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Curb Roof :: Curb roof () A roof having a double slope, or composed, on each side, of two parts which have unequal inclination; a gambrel roof..
Side :: Side (n.) A slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge..
Batter :: Batter (n.) A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.
Basil :: Basil (n.) The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground..
Amphitheatre :: Amphitheatre (n.) Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater..
Cant :: Cant (n.) An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl.
Glacis :: Glacis (n.) A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially (Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin)..
Declension :: Declension (n.) The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
Incline :: Incline (n.) An inclined plane; an ascent o/ descent; a grade or gradient; a slope.
Backhand :: Backhand (n.) A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right.
Berme :: Berme (n.) A ledge at the bottom of a bank or cutting, to catch earth that may roll down the slope, or to strengthen the bank..
Weatherboard :: Weatherboard (n.) A board extending from the ridge to the eaves along the slope of the gable, and forming a close junction between the shingling of a roof and the side of the building beneath..
Slope :: Slope (adv.) In a sloping manner.
Bosh :: Bosh (n.) The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part..
Ridge :: Ridge (n.) The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault..
Sidehill :: Sidehill (n.) The side or slope of a hill; sloping ground; a descent.
Skew :: Skew (n.) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place..
Incline :: Incline (v. t.) To cause to deviate from a line, position, or direction; to give a leaning, bend, or slope to; as, incline the column or post to the east; incline your head to the right..
Gradient :: Gradient (n.) A part of a road which slopes upward or downward; a portion of a way not level; a grade.
Downhill :: Downhill (n.) Declivity; descent; slope.
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