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slope English

Meaning slope meaning

What does slope mean?
Definitions in simple English

slope Noun

— A slope is one side of a hill. We will have to climb up this slope to get to the top of the hill. — The slope of a line is how far up it goes divided by how far along it goes. — A slope is a person that is Chinese or of a race in East Asia.

slope Verb

— If something slopes, it goes either up or down. The hill slopes down at this point.

slope

— noun (= side) an elevated geological formation he climbed the steep slope the house was built on the side of a mountain — noun (= gradient) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal a five-degree gradient — verb be at an angle The terrain sloped down

Synonyms slope synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as slope?

slope English » English

incline slant hillside lean tilt gradient inclination declivity pitch dip decline tip stoop hill grade side fall bend down ramp descent cant ascent bend bank rake list bevel acclivity steep precipice mountainside escarpment embankment veer steepness slide shelve rise obliqueness mound leaning lean to one side inclined plane hillock foot fall down drop downslope downhill downgrade

Slope English » English

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Topics slope topics

What do people use slope to talk about?
States Quality Shape Horizontal

Leaning, sloping
Universe, creation World Land

Mountain

Conjugation slope conjugation

How do you conjugate slope?

slope · verb

Examples slope examples

How do I use slope in a sentence?

Simple sentences

We skied down the slope.
Ken dashed up the slope.
We climbed a sharp slope.
The sled accelerated as it went down the icy slope.
He was able to ski down the slope in three minutes.
The sun had barely risen at the foot of the mountain when she set out alone up the slope.
The road across the mountain was narrow, and what's more, it was a steep slope.
Slippery slugs slithered sideways down the slope.
It's a slippery slope.
Tom was able to ski down the slope in three minutes.
She would have admitted that she liked Anne--nay, that she was very fond of Anne. But now she knew as she hurried wildly down the slope that Anne was dearer to her than anything else on earth.
One night a merchant was walking up the slope on his way home.
He stared at the steep slope.
The path zigzagged up the steep slope.
We climbed a steep slope.
It's a very steep slope.

Movie subtitles

Due to the slope, the detached wagon moves backward.
Rusty, line up the wagons at the bottom of that slope.
Cattle moving down the slope against the sun, campfires and snowdrifts.
Come on, let me take you to the beginners' slope.
You mean our comrades on the slope?
Just crosses on a slope.
They're coming in. coming in from both sides of that slope.
You could be sitting on the Western Slope Water Board right now. if you'd only go over and ask them.
Forward slope, reverse slope, east flank, west flank. well, here's where we were when the rockets first hit us.
The Nips probably stuck them on the reverse slope, so try it in there, huh?
Reverse slope.
Don't you see, theJaps thought that we'd figure they'd put the rockets on the reverse slope.
So instead, they dug a tunnel to the forward slope.
Rusty, line up the wagons along the slope.
Here, at the southward slope of the Himalaya, climate and surrounding area is dense and without air.
At the arduous southern slope we tackle heights of thousands of metres each day.
Never mind. Get to town and look for Leo, so I don't have to slope outta here by myself.
Coming in from both sides of that slope.
Reverse slope. Check.
So instead, they dug a tunnel to the forward slope. It's that easy.
Then how did he slope off?
We can sell the house. I spoke to the people at the hotel about it, they're opening up a new ski slope below the first peak and they can use this place.
He'd been going down the slippery slope for a while, poor Cosimo!
After a certain age nothing changes. everything comes to a standstill but life slides along like a sled down a slope.
If it's a silo, the bottom has to slope.
That's what I'm saying. A slope.
Make the slope a little steeper.
A-slope arms!
Mind the slope.
My headquarters are located on the slope of a submerged volcano. At the location of a destroyed city.
Sancho, you move into the town from the top of the slope.
The other boy just sat on the slope and watched.
We called the other boy sitting on the slope.
A German guy and you were climbing this slope before the war!

News and current affairs

One cannot help but wonder how thoughtlessly Europe's politicians have started down this slippery slope.
Will any country that legalizes therapeutic cloning inevitably slide down the so-called slippery slope and end up tolerating reproductive cloning?
The idea behind a slippery slope is that if you do x, which is acceptable, you will end up doing y, which is not.
On the logical slippery slope, you slide to the bottom and embrace the morally unacceptable because there is no way to distinguish it from an acceptable practice.
You can slide down the sociological slippery slope from one practice to the other - even if the two are conceptually different - just because the existence of one creates a social climate receptive to the other.
Even though I do not believe in a slippery slope from therapeutic to reproductive cloning, a society's laws should give voice to its values.
Critics warn of a slippery slope.
Thoughtful theologians can distinguish among psycho-sexual issues; in practice, however, fear of a slippery slope to calamity prevails.
Nonetheless, critics fear the slippery slope.
That could take all of us to the edge of a slippery slope.
Do other British publishers really believe that silence will protect them from the slippery slope?
This slope offers President Barack Obama a real opportunity to restore the federal government's revenue base to what it was in the mid-1990's.
If, instead, the US faces a fiscal slope, then people who refuse to consider raising taxes - namely, Republicans in the US Congress's House of Representatives - have a very weak hand indeed.
Then, as America heads steadily down the fiscal slope in early 2013, the House Republicans would have a choice. Do they vote, week after week, against tax cuts that would help 100 million Americans, while the economy deteriorates around them?
Fortunately, the fiscal slope gives Obama the opportunity to bring it about - and even to write some history in the process.
Taken to its extreme, America's accusations risk pushing the world's two largest economies down the slippery slope of trade frictions, protectionism, or something even worse.
The world is on a slippery slope toward nationalism and exclusion.
Indeed, this is not the first time that Pakistan's relations with the US have been on a slippery slope.

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