Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SLOPE

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Definitions of SLOPE

1. An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
2. The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
3. 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).
4. (UK, colloquial, usually, followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously.
5. (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.
6. (mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
7. (vulgar, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
8. (intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.
9. (transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
10. (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.
11. (obsolete) Sloping.
12. (obsolete) slopingly

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