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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Sloped :: Sloped (imp. & p. p.) of Slop.
Sidehill :: Sidehill (n.) The side or slope of a hill; sloping ground; a descent.
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 (adv.) In a sloping manner.
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..
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..
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..
Plongee :: Plongee (n.) A slope or sloping toward the front; as, the plongee of a parapet; the plongee of a shell in its course..
Bent :: Bent (v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill..
Batter :: Batter (v. i.) To slope gently backward.
Slope :: Slope (a.) Sloping.
Anticlinal :: Anticlinal (n.) The crest or line in which strata slope or dip in opposite directions.
Side :: Side (n.) A slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge..
Bank :: Bank (n.) A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine..
Glacier :: Glacier (n.) An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland..
Counterscarf :: Counterscarf (n.) The exterior slope or wall of the ditch; -- sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp..
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..
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..
Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To slope down; as, hanging grounds..
Slope :: Slope (v. i.) To depart; to disappear suddenly.
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