Results for slope

Definitions of slope:

part of speech: verb transitive

To form with a slope, or obliquely.

part of speech: adverb

In a sloping manner.

part of speech: noun

An inclined line; a slant; surface inclining downward; as, the slope of a hill; that part of the land that descends toward the ocean.

part of speech: noun

Any incline down which a thing may slip: a direction downward.

part of speech: verb intransitive

To be inclined.

part of speech: verb

To form with a slope; to form or cut so as to have a downward direction; to be inclined.

part of speech: adjective

Sloping.

part of speech: verb transitive, verb intransitive

To incline; to slant.

part of speech: noun

A surface inclining gradually downwards; a declivity.

Usage examples for slope:

• At our feet the snow slope fell away in a manner so distinct that we were without doubt really on the top of some portion of the ridge. "Above the Snow Line", Clinton Thomas Dent

• Just then his cogitations were interrupted, for on the farther side of a gentle slope suddenly there appeared an extraordinary sight. "Jess", H. Rider Haggard

• It stands pleasantly at the end of the town, with fields beyond it, and a good slope down to the river, if only it could be seen. "Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine", Edward A. Freeman Commentator: W. H. Hutton

• And that will come; it came with the shells on the slope yonder. "Ailsa Paige", Robert W. Chambers