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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Slope \Slope\, n.
The part of a continent descending toward, and draining to a
particular ocean; as the Pacific slope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Slope \Slope\, n. [Formed (like abode fr abide) from OE
slipen. See {Slip}, v. i.]
1. An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a
horizontal line or direction; also sometimes an
inclination, as of one line or surface to another.
2. Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of
the horizon.
buildings the summit and slope of a hill.
--Macaulay.
Under the slopes of Pisgah. --Deut. iv
49. (Rev.
Ver.).
Note: A slope, considered as descending, is a declivity;
considered as ascending, an acclivity.
{Slope of a plane} (Geom.), the direction of the plane; as
parallel planes have the same slope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Slope \Slope\, a.
Sloping. ``Down the slope hills.'' --Milton.
A bank not steep, but gently slope. --Bacon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Slope \Slope\, adv
In a sloping manner. [Obs.] --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Slope \Slope\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sloped}; p. pr & vb n.
{Sloping}.]
To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting
direction to to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as
to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in
cutting a garment.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Slope \Slope\, v. i.
1. To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the
plane of the horizon; to incline; as the ground slopes.
2. To depart; to disappear suddenly. [Slang]
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
slope
n 1: an elevated geological formation; "he climbed the steep
slope"; "the house was built on the side of the
mountain" [syn: {incline}, {side}]
2: the property possessed by a line or surface that departs
from the horizontal [syn: {gradient}]
v : be at an angle; "The terrain sloped down" [syn: {incline}, {pitch}]
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