Definition of Slope

n.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.).
3.The part of a continent descending toward, and draining to, a particular ocean; as, the Pacific slope.
Slope of a plane
(Geom.) the direction of the plane; as, parallel planes have the same slope.
a.1.Sloping.
A bank not steep, but gently slope.
- Bacon.
adv.1.In a sloping manner.
v. t.1.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.
[imp. & p. p. Sloped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sloping.]
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.


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