Slope - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |sləʊp|  American pronunciation of the word slope
Brit.  |sləʊp|  British pronunciation of the word slope

noun

- an elevated geological formation (syn: incline, side)
he climbed the steep slope
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal (syn: gradient)

verb

- be at an angle (syn: incline, pitch)
The terrain sloped down

Extra examples

His handwriting slopes to the left.

...they sloped our new driveway too steeply and now my car scrapes bottom whenever I back out onto the street...

They climbed the steep slope.

What is the angle of the slope?

You can adjust the slope of the ramp.

The garden slopes down so steeply that it's difficult to grow anything.

She looked back up the grassy slope.

We got to Tahoe on Friday, and hit the slopes (=skied on them) the next day.

Every time I want this boy for a little job, he's sloped off somewhere!

The terrain sloped down

The ski slope offers a high degree of challenge.

The ski slope was situated ideally.

He lost his footing and fell down the slope.

We watched the skiers glide down the slope.

...conventional wisdom had long held that the mountain's summit was inapproachable from the northen slope...

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: slope
he/she/it: slopes
present participle: sloping
past tense: sloped
past participle: sloped
noun
singular: slope
plural: slopes
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