different between slope vs sludge

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

Possibly related to slush.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl?d?/
• Rhymes: -?d?

Noun

sludge (countable and uncountable, plural sludges)

1. Solids separated from suspension in a liquid.
2. A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes.
3. A sediment of accumulated minerals in a steam boiler.
4. A mass of small pieces of ice on the surface of a body of water.
5. (uncountable, music) sludge metal

Synonyms

• (separated solids): mud, mire, ooze, slush

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

sludge (third-person singular simple present sludges, present participle sludging, simple past and past participle sludged)

1. (intransitive, informal) To slump or slouch.
2. (intransitive) To slop or drip slowly.