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adjective
- 1. placed or arranged in a sloping position; inclined: "a sloped leather writing surface"
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slope. verb [ I ] uk / sləʊp / us / sloʊp / to be at an angle to the horizontal: The path slopes up/down to the house. The football pitch sloped at the south end, so one half of the game had to be played uphill. Synonyms. incline formal. pitch. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Slanting, sloping, leaning, tilting. acclivity. angled.
1. : to take an oblique course. 2. : to lie or fall in a slant : incline. 3. : go, travel. slopes off into the night Wolcott Gibbs. transitive verb. : to cause to incline or slant. sloper noun. 3 of 3. noun. 1. : ground that forms a natural or artificial incline.
to be at an angle to the horizontal: The path slopes up/down to the house. The football pitch sloped at the south end, so one half of the game had to be played uphill. Synonyms. incline formal. pitch. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Slanting, sloping, leaning, tilting. acclivity.
SLOPING definition: 1. (of a surface) lying at an angle to the horizontal so that some points on it are higher than…. Learn more.
n. 1. An inclined line, surface, plane, position, or direction. 2. A stretch of ground forming a natural or artificial incline: ski slopes. 3. a. A deviation from the horizontal. b. The amount or degree of such deviation. 4. Mathematics. a.
What does slope mean? In mathematics, the slope (also called the gradient) of a line is a measurement of how steep the line is or how much of a slant it has. In math, a line is an object with no thickness that extends forever in both directions.
Definitions of sloped. adjective. having an oblique or slanted direction. synonyms: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloping. inclined. at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position.
n. ground that has a natural incline, as the side of a hill. inclination or slant, esp. downward or upward. deviation from the horizontal or vertical. an inclined surface. Usually, slopes. hills, esp. foothills or bluffs: the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Mathematics.
Sloped definition: Simple past tense and past participle of <i><a>slope.</a></i>.
, sloped, slop·ing. to have or take an inclined or oblique direction or angle considered with reference to a vertical or horizontal plane; slant. to move at an inclination or obliquely:
