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
sloping (comparative more sloping, superlative most sloping)
Having a slope.
sloping
present participle of slope
sloping (plural slopings)
An arrangement or motion by which something slopes.
• 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, 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
24 November 2024
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