Sloping is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SLOPING in dictionary:

VERB:
• SLOPE, 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
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.
ADJECTIVE:
• Inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon, or from a horizontal or other right line; oblique; declivous; slanting.
• having an oblique or slanted direction
• having a slanting form or direction

Words related to SLOPING

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How to use SLOPING in a sentence

• In making the running survey of the western promontory I found that all to the north of Sloping Head was an island, having a boat channel between from half a mile to a mile wide.
• But his progress towards the sloping bank was small.
• Margaret stood looking down in her quiet way at the sloping moors and fog.
• This daughter took up her bow and arrows and concealed herself on the sloping river-bank.
• The valley is a broad, shallow bowl, some five or six miles in diameter, enclosed by steeply sloping walls of five to six hundred feet in height.
• I stopped to see how the green blades danced in its light, how the sunshine fell down the sloping, bank across the stream below.
• A dead tree, white, very prominent in the Right foreground, another at its foot sloping down to Cn.
• If possible, choose a sunny border sloping to the south, and make the soil rich, fine, and rather firm.
• Sanderson saw a man of medium height with a rather well-rounded stomach, sloping shoulders, and a sleek, well-fed appearance.
• But the greatest charm of all is the grass, like a pillow gently sloping to the head.
• Lying prostrate on the sloping trunk, Hiram could see much farther up the road.
• The dwelling had no other outlook than on to the buildings to right and left, the big church in front, and at the back the sloping fields stretching up a high hill.
• Anita and I dropped ourselves down the sloping passage.
• The whole is then quickly heaped up with earth, and forms a sloping mound.
• Toward sunset the two travelers came in sight of the Valley of Aijalon, sloping down to the sea.
• The latter covered the sloping bank, standing like statues, watching for the water spirit whom they had been told was coming down the river.
• In cold weather ground sloping to the south, with woods to break the winds is fine.
• The walls were placed on sharply sloping rock and in some cases on loose debris, and numerous expedients were resorted to to prevent them from slipping down the slope.
• In cold weather, it is well to finish the heap each day as far as you go, so that the sloping side at the end of the heap will not be frozen during the night.
• Set back on the middle of two lots, it was, with a cement drive sloping up from the street to the garage backed against the alley.
• This zone of rim merged into another of strange contrast, the sloping red stream of sand which flowed from the wall of the canyon.
• It is built on the sloping side and round the base of a small range of granite hills, which, as it were, forms the citadel of the town.
• In the evening, we had worked back into North Bay, and come to an anchor under the north-east end of Sloping Island.
• Far below, across a vast green stretch of meadow sloping toward the sea, the sun sank into crimson canopies of cloud.
• The snow on which he walked became hard ice, and instead of sloping upward ran ahead almost in a horizontal line.
• Characteristic touches are to be seen in the turn of the head, the sloping axis of the eyes, and especially the fine oval of the face, and bushy hair.
• These plantations are in the most prosperous condition, situated on a sloping and well-manured tract behind the habitations.

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