different between slope vs extraction

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

English

Etymology

From Old French estraction, from Medieval Latin extractio

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?st?æk??n/
• Rhymes: -æk??n

Noun

extraction (countable and uncountable, plural extractions)

1. An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
2. A person's origin or ancestry.
   • 2014, Larissa Remennick, Russian Israelis: Social Mobility, Politics and Culture, Routledge ?ISBN, page 144

     Our companion on these tours was a young tourist, an American of Russian extraction, whose questions and remarks drew our attention to some details of Haifa life that have become too familiar and would have otherwise passed unnoticed. ...

3. Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
4. (military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
5. (dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.

Synonyms

• (origin, ancestry): descent, lineage
• (something extracted): extract, reduction; See also Thesaurus:decrement

Translations

Anagrams

• tetraxonic

French

Pronunciation

Noun

extraction f (plural extractions)

1. extraction

Further reading

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