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slope
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)
- An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
- The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
- (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.
- (mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
- 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).
- (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)
- (intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.
- (transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
- (colloquial, usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously.
- (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)
- (obsolete) Sloping.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Gardens
- A bank not steep, but gently slope.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Gardens
Adverb
slope (comparative more slope, superlative most slope)
- (obsolete) slopingly
Anagrams
- LEPOs, Poles, S-pole, eslop, lopes, olpes, poles, spole
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
slope
- (archaic) singular past subjunctive of sluipen
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of slopen
Anagrams
- sloep, spoel
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cline
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kla?n/
- Rhymes: -a?n
Etymology 1
Ancient Greek ?????? (kl??n?, “to lean, incline”).
Noun
cline (plural clines)
- (systematics) A gradation in a character or phenotype within a species or other group.
- Any graduated continuum.
- 2005, Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson and Lutz Marten, The Dynamics of Language, an Introduction, p. 412
- This account effectively reconstructs the well-known grammaticalisation cline from anaphora to agreement, …
- 2005, Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson and Lutz Marten, The Dynamics of Language, an Introduction, p. 412
Derived terms
- clinal
Related terms
- client
- climate
- climax
- clinic
- clivus
- lean
Etymology 2
From c(ircle) + line; compare circline.
Noun
cline (plural clines)
- (geometry, inversive geometry) A generalized circle.
- 2011, Dominique Michelucci, What is a Line?, Pascal Schreck, Julien Narboux, Jürgen Richter-Gebert (editors), Automated Deduction in Geometry, 8th International Workshop, ADG 2010, Revised Selected Papers, LNAI 6877, page 139,
- Let ? be a fixed, arbitrary, point. Then circles (in the classical sense) through ? can be considered as lines. For convenience, such circles are called clines in this section. Two distinct clines cut in one point (ignoring ? and the two cyclic points); it can happen that ? is a double intersection point; in this case, one may say that the two clines are parallel, and that they meet at a point at infinity, which is ?.
- 2011, Dominique Michelucci, What is a Line?, Pascal Schreck, Julien Narboux, Jürgen Richter-Gebert (editors), Automated Deduction in Geometry, 8th International Workshop, ADG 2010, Revised Selected Papers, LNAI 6877, page 139,
Synonyms
- (generalized circle): circline, generalized circle
Further reading
- cline at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- incel, incle
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