Slope: alternatives and connections

The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.

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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; asce…

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The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth.

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A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.

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An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck).

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A corner; angle; niche.

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To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

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The side of a thing.

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The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.

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The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.

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To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, consid…

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The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

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A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach.…

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To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…

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The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.

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A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of fl…

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The quality or state of being gradual; regular progression or gradation; slowness.

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The side or declivity of a hill.

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Noting the region of foothills near the base of a mountain chain.

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A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas,…

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To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which…

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To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…

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A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter.

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To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.

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Quality or state of being steep; precipitous declivity; as, the steepnessof a hill or a roof.

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Familiar; conversant.

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The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook.

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The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.

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To conceal.

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The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.

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A covering overhead; especially, a tent.

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The point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear.

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To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.

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To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

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To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.

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To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…

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Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight o…

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A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas,…

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A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas,…

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To spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp.

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To spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp.

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A covering overhead; especially, a tent.

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A covering overhead; especially, a tent.

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The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the ele…

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Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata.

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To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to…

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A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas,…

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The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distin…

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