different between lobe vs slope

English

Etymology

From Middle French lobe in early 16th century, from New Latin lobus (“a lobe”), from Ancient Greek ????? (lobós, “the lobe of the ear or of the liver, the pod of a leguminous plant”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??b/
• Rhymes: -??b

Noun

lobe (plural lobes)

1. Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form. [from 19th c.]

   A lobe of lava was crawling down the side of the volcano.

   • 1958, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, London: William Heinemann, Chapter 19,

     He then broke the kola nut and threw one of the lobes on the ground for the ancestors.

2. (anatomy) A clear division of an organ that can be determined at the gross anatomy level, especially one of the parts of the brain, liver or lung. [from 16th c.]
3. (figure skating) A semicircular pattern left on the ice as the skater travels across it. [from 20th c.]

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• earlobe
• lobe-finned
• lobe-shaped
• trilobite

Related terms

• lobotomy

Translations

See also

• (brain lobes) brain lobe; frontal lobe, occipital lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe ^{(Category: en:Brain)}

Further reading

• lobe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• lobe in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Bole, Lebo, Loeb, bole

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?b/

Etymology 1

From Middle French, from Ancient Greek ????? (lobós).

Noun

lobe m (plural lobes)

1. (anatomy, botany) lobe (of an organ)

References

• “lobe” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology 2

Verb

lobe

1. inflection of lober:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

German

Pronunciation

Verb

lobe

1. inflection of loben:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Latin

Noun

lobe

1. vocative singular of lobus

English

Etymology

From aslope (adjective, adverb).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /slo?p/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sl??p/
• Rhymes: -??p

Noun

slope (countable and uncountable, plural slopes)

1. An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.

2. The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.

3. (mathematics) The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if the line is horizontal, undefined if it is vertical.

4. (mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.

5. The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise to the units of horizontal length (sometimes referred to as run).

6. (vulgar, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.

Synonyms

• (area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward): bank, embankment, gradient, hill, incline
• (degree to which a surface tends upward or downward): gradient
• (mathematics): first derivative, gradient
• (offensive: Chinese person): Chinaman, Chink

Translations

Verb

slope (third-person singular simple present slopes, present participle sloping, simple past and past participle sloped)

1. (intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.
2. (transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.

3. (colloquial, usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously.

4. (military) To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.

Derived terms

• ski slope
• slippery slope
• Slope County
• sloping

Translations

Adjective

slope (comparative more slope, superlative most slope)

1. (obsolete) Sloping.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Gardens

     A bank not steep, but gently slope.

Adverb

slope (comparative more slope, superlative most slope)

1. (obsolete) slopingly

Anagrams

• LEPOs, Poles, S-pole, eslop, lopes, olpes, poles, spole

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

slope

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of sluipen
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of slopen

Anagrams

• sloep, spoel