Word Finder - slope

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An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.

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I had to climb a small slope to get to the site.

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The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.

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The road has a very sharp downward slope at that point.

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The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if the line is horizontal, undefined if it is vertical.

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The slope of this line is 0.5

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The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.

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The slope of a parabola increases linearly with x.

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The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise to the units of horizontal length (sometimes referred to as run).

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The slope of an asphalt shingle roof system should be 4:12 or greater.

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A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.

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To tend steadily upward or downward.

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The road slopes sharply down at that point.

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To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.

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to slope the ground in a garden;   to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment

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(usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously.

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I sloped in through the back door, hoping my boss wouldn't see me.

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To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.

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The order was given to "slope arms".

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Sloping.

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Slopingly

They waited until he climbed up the slope to where they stood.

Pierre ran down the slope once more.

Amritsar district is a nearly level plain, with a very slight slope from east to west.

Immediately beyond the forest, on a downward slope, lay a field of spring rye.

Dean explained how they suspected it was Shipton who had frightened Donnie on the ski slope in Telluride.

He was assisted up the slope to the vehicle of a tour monitor and placed in the back seat.

A bank of clouds tumbled down the slope to the left of him, bathing the summit in cold dampness.

The steepest slope observed occurs off the island of Sapienza, near Navarino, where 1720 fathoms has been obtained only 10 miles from land.

Dean could see nothing behind him, only the slope directly beneath his feet.

The slope dropped at a precarious angle, impossible to maneuver unsecured, only a few degrees from the perpendicular.

The white Hummer limo made it up the snowy slope and slowed as it crossed the cleared cobblestone drive in front of the castle.

He scanned the slope below him and located the others.

She returned to the garden and sat down on the grass at the foot of the slope by the pond, where no one could see her.

Among the great glaciers which stream from the peak the most noteworthy are those of Bossons and Taconnaz (northern slope) and of Brenva and Miage (southern slope).

On the mainland, and more especially on the eastern slope, the temperature is cooler, the thermometer seldom rising above 93° in the shade, and falling at night below 70°.

It lies on the slope of a low range of hills which borders the valley of the Thames on the south.

The Greek hippodrome was usually set out on the slope of a hill, and the ground taken from one side served to form the embankment on the other side.

Farther down the hill, on the left, on the old road in the woods, are marks of some homestead of the Stratton family; whose orchard once covered all the slope of Brister's Hill, but was long since killed out by pitch pines, excepting a few stumps, whose old roots furnish still the wild stocks of many a thrifty village tree.

The snow lying deep on the earth dotted with young pines, and the very slope of the hill on which my house is placed, seemed to say, Forward!

Finally, after ten minutes of silence passed, they heard the sound of feet running down the slope on the other side of the rise above them.

Dean skied a few tentative yards down the slope, took a couple of turns, stopped, and assessed himself.

He hooked the light to his belt where it swung in an eerie arc, casting jumping shadows on the rock-strewn slope and yellow streaks into nothingness.

She followed him across the valley and up a steep slope.

After the first several feet, the angle of the slope dropped more sharply and he was forced to move to his left to avoid falling.

But beneath the slope, by the cart with the wounded near the panting little nag where Pierre stood, it was damp, somber, and sad.

By the time the group stopped for lunch—two large five-cheese pizzas at Big Billie's—Donnie had progressed to the point of being able to ski alone from the top of the beginner slope.

He was more than content to spend his first day of skiing on the bunny slope.

Small quantities have also been found on the western slope in Perak.

The least broken section of Vermont is on the somewhat gentle slope of the Green Mountains in the N.W.

What immediately follows is on a descending slope with some striking exceptions, e.g.

These valleys are generally levelfloored, but at their borders gradually slope upward, and are filled, often to a depth of several thousand feet, with the detritus of gravel, sand and silt from the neighbouring hills.

On its eastern slope the waters soon disappear within the bed of narrow canyons, but break out again at the foot in icecold springs that form the source of the Ruby and Franklin lakes; on its western side the descent is more gentle, and the waters form the South Fork of the Humboldt river.

Owing to the high barrier which shuts off almost all Syria from the sea, and precipitates vapours mainly on the western slope, little of the land is highly productive without irrigation, except the narrow littoral strip which was the ancient Phoenicia, and the small deltas, such as that of Latakia (Laodicea).

The Cynosarges, from earliest times a sanctuary of Heracles, later a celebrated gymnasium and the school of Antisthenes The Cyno- Cynic, has hitherto been generally supposed to on the eastern slope of Lycabettus; its situation, however, has been fixed by D6rpfeld at a point a little to the south of the Olympieum, on the left bank of the Ilissus.

The mountains descend by a much more gradual slope to the coastal plain of the Gulf of Tarentum.

On the northern slope lies the parish of St Stephen.

The Lower or Bristol Avon rises on the eastern slope of the Cotteswold Hills in Gloucestershire, collecting the waters of several streams south of Tetbury and east of Malmesbury.

It lies near the border of Somersetshire, on the southern slope of a hill overlooking the river Yeo, in a fertile, well-wooded district.

In 1755 he retired from his shop to the house on the slope of the Castle Rock, still known as Ramsay Lodge.

The smaller plain, or rather slope, adjoining Canea and the valley of Alikianu, through which the Platanos (ancient Iardanos) flows, are of great beauty and fertility.

Baena is picturesquely situated near the river Marbella, on the slope of a hill crowned with a castle, which formerly belonged to the famous captain Gonzalo de Cordova.

The general slope of the southern part is southward to the river Balsas, or Mescala, which forms its boundary-line with Guerrero.

The broad mountainous slope by which it is connected with the lower levels of Hindostan contains the ranges known as the Himalaya; the name Kuen-lun is generally applied to the northern slope that descends to the central plains of the Gobi, though these mountains are not locally known under those names, Kuen-lun being apparently a Chinese designation.

From it the Oxus, or Amu, flows off to the west, and the Jaxartes, or Syr, to the north, through the Turki state of Khokand, while to the east the waters run down past Kashgar to the central desert of the Gobi, uniting with the streams from the northern slope of the Tibetan plateau that traverse the principalities of Yarkand and Khotan, which are also Turki.

The borough is built on the slope of Locust Mountain, about 885 ft.

Above the village are the ruins of the castle of Rheingrafenstein (12th century), formerly a seat of the count palatine of the Rhine, which was destroyed by the French in 1689, and those of the castle of Ebernburg, the ancestral seat of the lords of Sickingen, and the birthplace of Franz von Sickingen, the famous landsknecht captain and protector of Ulrich von Hutten, to whom a monument was erected on the slope near the ruins in 1889.

The Dove rises on the southern slope, and flows as the boundary stream between Derbyshire and Staffordshire for nearly its entire course.

Under the southern slope of Parnassus were situated the two small plains of Crisa and Anticyra, separated by Mt Cirphis, an offshoot from the main range.

The slope on which old Tortosa stands is crowned with an ancient castle, which has been restored and converted into barracks and a hospital.

The north slope of the Areopagus, where a number of early tombs were found, was also explored, and the limits of the Agora on the south and north-west were approximately ascertained.