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- Slope - v. i. - 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.
- Slope - v. i. - Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.
- Slope - a. - Sloping.
- Slope - adv. - In a sloping manner.
- Slope - v. t. - 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.
- Slope - v. i. - To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.
- Slope - v. i. - To depart; to disappear suddenly.
- Sloped - imp. & p. p. - of Slope
- Slopeness - n. - State of being slope.
- Slopewise - adv. - Obliquely.
- Glacier - n. - An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland.
- Weatherboard - n. - A board extending from the ridge to the eaves along the slope of the gable, and forming a close junction between the shingling of a roof and the side of the building beneath.
- Glacis - n. - A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially (Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin).
- Scarp - n. - The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.
- Revetment - v. t. - A facing of wood, stone, or any other material, to sustain an embankment when it receives a slope steeper than the natural slope; also, a retaining wall.
- Acclivity - n. - A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent.
- Calade - n. - A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches.
- Glissade - n. - A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps.
- Bankside - n. - The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam.
- Bevel - v. t. - To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.
- Incline - v. t. - To cause to deviate from a line, position, or direction; to give a leaning, bend, or slope to; as, incline the column or post to the east; incline your head to the right.
- Rise - v. - To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction.
- Splay - a. - A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
- Anticlinal - n. - The crest or line in which strata slope or dip in opposite directions.
- Bray - n. - A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling.
- Crest - n. - The top line of a slope or embankment.
- Plongee - n. - A slope or sloping toward the front; as, the plongee of a parapet; the plongee of a shell in its course.
- Versant - n. - The slope of a side of a mountain chain; hence, the general slope of a country; aspect.
- Clinometer - n. - An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level.
- Herringbone - a. - Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions.
- Sidehill - n. - The side or slope of a hill; sloping ground; a descent.
- Skew - n. - A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.
- Side - n. - A slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge.
- Hang - v. i. - To slope down; as, hanging grounds.
- Cant - n. - An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl.
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- G2824 κλίμα - 2824 κλίμα - ΚΛΊΜΑ - - klíma - klee'-mah - from κλίνω; a slope, i.e. (specially) a "clime" or tract of country:--part, region. - Noun Neuter - greek
- G2827 κλίνω - 2827 κλίνω - ΚΛΊΝΩ - - klínō - klee'-no - a primary verb; to slant or slope, i.e. incline or recline (literally or figuratively):--bow (down), be far spent, lay, turn to flight, wear away. - Verb - greek
- H8219 שְׁפֵלָה - 8219 שְׁפֵלָה - שְׁפֵלָה - - shᵉphêlâh - shef-ay-law' - from שָׁפֵל; Lowland, i.e. (with the article) the maritime slope of Palestine; low country, (low) plain, vale(-ley). - Noun Feminine - x-pn