SLOPING

sloping

(adjective) having a slanting form or direction; “an area of gently sloping hills”; “a room with a sloping ceiling”

aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping

(adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

sloping (comparative more sloping, superlative most sloping)

Having a slope.

Verb

sloping

present participle of slope

Noun

sloping (plural slopings)

An arrangement or motion by which something slopes.

Anagrams

• Polings, polings

Source: Wiktionary


Slop"ing, a.

Definition: Inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon, or from a horizontal or other right line; oblique; declivous; slanting.

– Slop"ing*ly, adv. The sloping land recedes into the clouds. Cowper.

SLOPE

Slope, n. Etym: [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.

Slope, a.

Definition: Sloping. "Down the slope hills." Milton. A bank not steep, but gently slope. Bacon.

Slope, adv.

Definition: In a sloping manner. [Obs.] Milton.

Slope, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sloped; p. pr. & vb. n. Sloping.]

Definition: 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.

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]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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