intransitive verb. To diverge from the vertical or horizontal; incline: synonym: slant.

intransitive verb. To move or walk.

intransitive verb. To cause to slope.

noun. An inclined line, surface, plane, position, or direction.

noun. A stretch of ground forming a natural or artificial incline.

noun. undefined

noun. A deviation from the horizontal.

noun. The amount or degree of such deviation.

noun. undefined

noun. 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.

noun. The tangent of the angle of inclination of a line, or the slope of the tangent line for a curve or surface.

noun. Used as a disparaging term for a person of East Asian birth or ancestry.

Inclined or inclining from a horizontal direction; forming an angle with the plane of the horizon; slanting; aslant.

noun. An oblique direction; obliquity; slant; especially, a direction downward; as, a piece of timber having a slight slope.

noun. A declivity or acclivity; any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.

noun. Specifically— In civil engineering, an inclined bank of earth on the sides of a cutting or an embankment. See grade, 2.

noun. In coal-mining, an inclined passage driven in the bed of coal and open to the surface: a term rarely if ever used in metal-mines, in which shafts that are not vertical are called inclines. See shaft and incline.

noun. In fort., the inclined surface of the interior, top, or exterior of a parapet or other portion of a work. See cut under parapet.

noun. In mathematics, the rate of change of a scalar function of a vector, relatively to that of the variable, in the direction in which this change is a maximum.

noun. 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.

noun. Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.

noun. The part of a continent descending toward, and draining to, a particular ocean.

noun. the direction of the plane.

adjective. Sloping.

adverb. In a sloping manner.

transitive verb. To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant

intransitive verb. To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline.

intransitive verb. To depart; to disappear suddenly.

noun. An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.

noun. The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.

noun. 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.

noun. The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.

noun. 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). For English units of measurement, when dimensions are given in inches, slope may be expressed as a ratio of rise to run, such as 4:12 or an an angle.

noun. A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.

verb. To tend steadily upward or downward.

verb. To try to move surreptitiously.

verb. To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.

noun. the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal

noun. an elevated geological formation

verb. be at an angle