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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
slope From the web:
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invasion
English
Etymology
From Middle French invasion, from Late Latin inv?si?nem, accusative of inv?si?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?ve???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
invasion (countable and uncountable, plural invasions)
- A military action consisting of armed forces of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of conquering territory or altering the established government.
- The entry without consent of an individual or group into an area where they are not wanted.
- an invasion of mobile phones
- an invasion of bees
- an invasion of foreign tourists
- (medicine) The spread of cancer cells, bacteries and such to the organism.
- (surgery) The breaching of the skin barrier.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin inv?si?nem, nominative of inv?si?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.va.zj??/
Noun
invasion f (plural invasions)
- invasion
Related terms
- envahir
Further reading
- “invasion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- innovais, visionna
Middle French
Noun
invasion f (plural invasions)
- invasion
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin inv?si?.
Pronunciation
Noun
invasion f (plural invasions)
- invasion
Swedish
Noun
invasion c
- invasion
invasion From the web:
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- what invasion started ww1
- what invasion means
- what invasion of privacy means
- what invasion officially started ww2
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- what invasion games
- why did invasion of poland start ww2
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