different between piste vs slope

English

Etymology

From French piste.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?st, -i?st

Noun

piste (plural pistes)

1. (skiing) A downhill trail.
2. (fencing) The field of play of a fencing match.
3. (archaic) The track left by somebody riding a horse.

Translations

Anagrams

• IP set, piets, septi-, spite, stipe

Dutch

Etymology 1

From French piste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pist?/

Noun

piste f (plural pistes, diminutive pistetje n)

1. (skiing) piste
2. (circus) circus ring
3. (Belgium) trail, track

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?st?/

Verb

piste

1. singular past indicative and subjunctive of pissen

Finnish

Etymology

pistää +? -e. Originally a synonym of pisto (“sting; prick, puncture”). First used to mean "period, full stop, dot" by Gustaf Renvall and "point" in geometry by Wolmar Schildt; other meanings derive from those two.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?piste?/, [?pis?t?e?(?)]
• Rhymes: -iste
• Syllabification: pis?te

Noun

piste

1. (typography) point, dot, full stop, period
2. (mathematics) point (zero-dimensional object)
3. point (particular location)
4. point (something tiny)
5. point (mark or stroke above a letter)
6. point (unit of scoring)

   Synonyms: (colloquial) pojo, (colloquial) pinna

7. (typography) point (unit of font size or spacing)

Declension

Derived terms

• pisteyttää

Compounds

Related terms

Anagrams

• pesit, pesti, petsi, tepsi

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pist/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian pista, variant of pesta (“footprint”).

Noun

piste f (plural pistes)

1. track or trail (left by an animal or person)
2. track (road or other similar beaten path)

3. (figuratively) lead, hint (e.g. in a police investigation)

4. (aviation) runway

5. (music) track (on a recording)
6. racecourse
7. ring in a circus
8. floor (various activities such as dancing, skating, or fencing)

9. (skiing) piste

Derived terms

• brouiller les pistes
• piste courte
• piste cyclable
• piste de danse

Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

piste

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

Further reading

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

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iste

Noun

piste f

1. plural of pista

Anagrams

• pesti

Latin

Participle

piste

1. vocative masculine singular of pistus

References

• piste in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Lithuanian

Participle

piste

1. "manner of action" b?dinys participle of pisti.

Neapolitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pist?/

Noun

piste m

1. plural of pisto

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Compare Persian ????? (peste).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?s?t?/

Noun

piste f (Arabic spelling ?????)

1. pistachio

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “piste”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• pissa, pisset

Verb

piste

1. simple past of pisse

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