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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Glissade :: Glissade (n.) A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps..
Sloped :: Sloped (imp. & p. p.) of Slop.
Descent :: Descent (n.) Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent..
Versant :: Versant (n.) The slope of a side of a mountain chain; hence, the general slope of a country; aspect..
Slope :: Slope (adv.) In a sloping manner.
Ramp :: Ramp (n.) A short bend, slope, or curve, where a hand rail or cap changes its direction..
Slope :: Slope (a.) Sloping.
Splay :: Splay (v. t.) To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc..
Sidehill :: Sidehill (n.) The side or slope of a hill; sloping ground; a descent.
Fall :: Fall (n.) Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.
Rise :: Rise (v.) To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction..
Clinometer :: Clinometer (n.) An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level..
Bent :: Bent (v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill..
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..
Escarp :: Escarp (v. t.) To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scrap..
Acclivity :: Acclivity (n.) A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent..
Pendence :: Pendence (n.) Slope; inclination.
Splayfeet :: Splay (a.) A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them..
Pitch :: Pitch (v. i.) To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east..
Batter :: Batter (n.) A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.
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