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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Brae :: Brae (n.) A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill.
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..
Batter :: Batter (n.) A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.
Slope :: Slope (v. i.) To depart; to disappear suddenly.
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..
Escarp :: Escarp (v. t.) To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scrap..
Sloped :: Sloped (imp. & p. p.) of Slop.
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..
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)..
Slope :: Slope (v. i.) Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.
Bank :: Bank (n.) A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine..
Slopeness :: Slopeness (n.) State of being slope.
Slope :: Slope (a.) Sloping.
Bent :: Bent (v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill..
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..
Slope :: 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..
Catchwork :: Catchwork (n.) A work or artificial water-course for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.
Bevel :: Bevel (v. t.) To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.
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..
Fall :: Fall (n.) Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.
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