Slope vs. Slopey
Difference Between Slope and Slopey
Slopeverb
To diverge from the vertical or horizontal; incline
a roof that slopes.Slopeyadjective
alternative form of slopy
Slopeverb
To move or walk
"Without another word he turned and sloped off down the driveway" (Roald Dahl).Slopeverb
To cause to slope
sloped the path down the bank.Slopenoun
An inclined line, surface, plane, position, or direction.
Slopenoun
A stretch of ground forming a natural or artificial incline
ski slopes.Slopenoun
A deviation from the horizontal.
Slopenoun
The amount or degree of such deviation.
Slopenoun
The rate at which an ordinate of a point of a line on a coordinate plane changes with respect to a change in the abscissa.
Slopenoun
The tangent of the angle of inclination of a line, or the slope of the tangent line for a curve or surface.
Slopenoun
Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a person of East Asian birth or ancestry.
Slopenoun
An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
I had to climb a small slope to get to the site.Slopenoun
The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
The road has a very sharp downward slope at that point.Slopenoun
(mathematics) 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.
The slope of this line is 0.5Slopenoun
(mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
The slope of a parabola increases linearly with x.Slopenoun
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).
The slope of an asphalt shingle roof system should be 4:12 or greater.Slopenoun
A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
Slopeverb
(intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.
The road slopes sharply down at that point.Slopeverb
(transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
to slope the ground in a garden;to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garmentSlopeverb
To try to move surreptitiously.
I sloped in through the back door, hoping my boss wouldn't see me.Slopeverb
(military) To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.
The order was given to "slope arms".Slopeadjective
(obsolete) Sloping.
Slopeadverb
(obsolete) slopingly
Slopenoun
an elevated geological formation;
he climbed the steep slopethe house was built on the side of the mountainSlopenoun
the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal;
a five-degree gradientSlopeverb
be at an angle;
The terrain sloped down
