Results for slope
Definitions of slope:
part of speech: verb transitive
To form with a slope, or obliquely.
part of speech: adverb
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
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
part of speech: verb transitive, verb intransitive
part of speech: noun
Usage examples for slope:
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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