Definition of Slope

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Definition of Slope

Slope

The part of a continent descending toward, and draining to, a particular ocean; as, the Pacific slope.

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.

Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.

Sloping.

In a sloping manner.

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.

To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.

To depart; to disappear suddenly.

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Slope Quotations

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
C. S. Lewis

We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.
Adam Sandler

We can get more energy out of the north slope of Alaska; we have available the ability to make ourselves less dependent on those uncertain sources of supply from the Middle East. And it's important we do that.
John W. Snow

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
Leon Kass

When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.
John McCarthy

Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.
Roland Joffe

I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips.
Amos Oz

As the work proceeded we found that the western end of the cutting receded under the slope of the rock, and thus was partly roofed over by the overhanging rock.
Howard Carter

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
Alan K. Simpson

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.
Michelle Shocked

Slope Translations

slope in Dutch is helling, glooiing
slope in Finnish is rinne
slope in Italian is discesa, pendio, pista
slope in Spanish is escarpadura, cuesta, pista
slope in Swedish is backe, sluttning, slutta

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