Slope is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SLOPE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to slant or incline
• (of a surface or line) be inclined from a horizontal or vertical line; slant up or down
• place or arrange in a sloping position
• move in an idle or aimless manner
• leave unobtrusively, typically in order to evade work or duty
• 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.
• 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.
• slant
NOUN:
• a surface of which one end or side is at a higher level than another; a rising or falling surface
• a difference in level or sideways position between the two ends or sides of a thing
• a part of the side of a hill or mountain, especially as a place for skiing
• the gradient of a graph at any point.
• the mutual conductance of a valve, numerically equal to the gradient of one of the characteristic curves of the valve.
• a person from East Asia, especially Vietnam.
• an elevated geological formation
• the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal
• sloping surface
ADJECTIVE:
• Sloping.

Words related to SLOPE

slant5 sloped9 sloper8 slopers9 slopes8 slopewise14 slopier9 slopiest10 sloping10 slopingly15 slopingness14 slopy10

Words that contain SLOPE

aslope8 sloped9 sloper8 slopes8 slopers9 upslope11 upslopes12 downslope15 hillslope14 slopewise14 slopeside12 downslopes16 hillslopes15 glideslope14 slopesides13 slopestyle15 glideslopes15 slopestyles16

How to use SLOPE in a sentence

• On the descending trail, he could cut by one half the miles they had traversed winding up the slope.
• Langdon, panting and inwardly cursing at his ill luck, struggled to make the last ten feet to the edge of the slope.
• The great hill back of the camp was so steep that the pines growing on its slope offered to the breeze an almost perpendicular screen of branches.
• Towards the other end the hills sink lower, and slope off into the plains of Lombardy.
• Afternoon, came along a little better, but again lost tracks on hard slope.
• On a slope opposite, the queer, flat-roofed native village perched, and above it swirled a misty pall which hid all but the bases of the hills.
• Hearing the cries, the girl quickened her pace, and without so much as a backward glance passed swiftly down the steep slope to the river.
• The country had a gentle slope from the interior, and no land of any great elevation was visible from the farthest point I attained, distant about fifteen miles from the coast.
• The slope of the rocks left the gateway no more than eight or nine feet high, though, at the highest point inside, the roof of the chamber was perhaps twenty feet above the floor.
• He travelled all that afternoon, crossed the summit, and moved swiftly down the opposite slope.
• The last two miles of this desolate slope Van walked and led his broncho.
• He held on savagely, and struck out his feet to act as brakes on the dark slope of the hot, moist earth.
• They came upon the valleys of Nukuheva on one side of the bay, where the highlands slope off into the sea.
• On the slope of the hill, just above the broad ledge previously described, there is a fine spring, but no trace of a trail connecting it with the pueblo could be found.
• An example of this use was seen in a garden wall on the west side of Walpi, where the stones had been set on end in the yielding surface of a sandy slope among the foothills.
• The doctor turned, his somber gaze following the now distant figure of the post commander, struggling painfully up the yielding sand of the steep slope to the plateau.
• Drift down the slope, get back of the next ridge, and strike south.
• A new camp had been selected on a dry slope, wood had been cut, the tubs distributed, and they were waiting for Bart and a good day.
• A few lines in the letter to the Ephesian circle of churches give a sort of bill of details of the mental steps down that slope from the Eden gate.
• Down the long slope they slid at a terrific pace that fairly took their breath away.
• They carried it, but ten thousand men lay on the death-smitten slope.

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