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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Slopeness :: Slopeness (n.) State of being slope.
Slant :: Slant (v. i.) To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.
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..
Slope :: Slope (adv.) In a sloping manner.
Bray :: Bray (n.) A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling..
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..
Backhand :: Backhand (n.) A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right.
Downhill :: Downhill (n.) Declivity; descent; slope.
Incline :: Incline (n.) An inclined plane; an ascent o/ descent; a grade or gradient; a slope.
Talus :: Talus (n.) A slope; the inclination of the face of a work.
Italic :: Italic (a.) Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500..
Catchwork :: Catchwork (n.) A work or artificial water-course for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.
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..
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..
Brae :: Brae (n.) A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill.
Cant :: Cant (n.) An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl.
Dip :: Dip (n.) Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
Slant :: Slant (n.) A slanting direction or plane; a slope; as, it lies on a slant..
Revetment :: Revetment (v. t.) A facing of wood, stone, or any other material, to sustain an embankment when it receives a slope steeper than the natural slope; also, a retaining wall..
Bosh :: Bosh (n.) The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part..
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