Transcription
-
- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- UK Pronunciation
- UK IPA
-
- [slohp]
- /sloʊp/
- /sləʊp/
-
- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
-
- [slohp]
- /sloʊp/
Definitions of slope word
- verb without object slope to have or take an inclined or oblique direction or angle considered with reference to a vertical or horizontal plane; slant. 1
- verb without object slope to move at an inclination or obliquely: They sloped gradually westward. 1
- verb with object slope to direct at a slant or inclination; incline from the horizontal or vertical: The sun sloped its beams. 1
- verb with object slope to form with a slope or slant: to slope an embankment. 1
- noun slope ground that has a natural incline, as the side of a hill. 1
- noun slope inclination or slant, especially downward or upward. 1
Information block about the term
Origin of slope
First appearance:
before 1495 One of the 26% oldest English words
1495-1505; aphetic variant of aslope; akin to slip1
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Slope
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
slope popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 97% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
slope usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for slope
verb slope
- bank — A bank is a building where a bank offers its services.
- be off — leave
- beetle — A beetle is an insect with a hard covering to its body.
- beetling — a heavy hammering or ramming instrument, usually of wood, used to drive wedges, force down paving stones, compress loose earth, etc.
- beveling — the inclination that one line or surface makes with another when not at right angles.
noun slope
- butte — an isolated steep-sided flat-topped hill
- cave-in — a collapse, as of anything hollow: the worst cave-in in the history of mining.
- cavein — a hollow in the earth, especially one opening more or less horizontally into a hill, mountain, etc.
- descent — A descent is a movement from a higher to a lower level or position.
- dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
Antonyms for slope
noun slope
- level — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
Top questions with slope
- how to find slope?
- how to find the slope of a line?
- what is slope?
- what is slope intercept form?
- how to find the slope?
- how to find slope on a graph?
- how to find slope of a line?
- how to calculate slope?
- what is the slope of a vertical line?
- how to find slope intercept form?
- what is the slope of a horizontal line?
- what is a slope?
- what is the slope formula?
- what does slope mean?
- how do you find the slope of a line?