Dictionary Entry
slope
slope is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as intransitive verb, adjective, adverb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
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.
- 2intransitive verb
Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.
- 3adjective
Sloping.
- 4adverb
In a sloping manner.
- 5transitive verb
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.
- 6intransitive verb
To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.
- 7intransitive verb
To depart; to disappear suddenly.
- 8noun
the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal
"a five-degree gradient"
Synonyms
- 9noun
an elevated geological formation
"he climbed the steep slope"
"the house was built on the side of a mountain"
- 10verb
be at an angle
"The terrain sloped down"
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