Definition of slope

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Slope (v. t.) 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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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..
Declension :: Declension (n.) The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
Brae :: Brae (n.) A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill.
Dormer Window :: Dormer window (n.) A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained..
Esplanade :: Esplanade (n.) The glacis of the counterscarp, or the slope of the parapet of the covered way toward the country..
Pitch :: Pitch (n.) The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof..
Valley :: Valley (n.) The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a reentrant angle..
Batter :: Batter (v. i.) To slope gently backward.
Die :: Die (v. i.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face..
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..
Slope :: Slope (a.) Sloping.
Versant :: Versant (n.) The slope of a side of a mountain chain; hence, the general slope of a country; aspect..
Anticlinal :: Anticlinal (n.) The crest or line in which strata slope or dip in opposite directions.
Facing :: Facing (n.) A covering in front, for ornament or other purpose; an exterior covering or sheathing; as, the facing of an earthen slope, sea wall, etc. , to strengthen it or to protect or adorn the exposed surface..
Scarp :: Scarp (n.) The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.
Ramp :: Ramp (n.) A short bend, slope, or curve, where a hand rail or cap changes its direction..
Bankside :: Bankside (n.) The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam..
Talus :: Talus (n.) A slope; the inclination of the face of a work.
Chinook :: Chinook (n.) A warm westerly wind from the country of the Chinooks, sometimes experienced on the slope of the Rocky Mountains, in Montana and the adjacent territory..
Cant :: Cant (n.) An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl.
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