Word Meanings - SLOPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another. 2. Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon. buildings

Additional info about word: SLOPE

1. An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another. 2. Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon. buildings the summit and slope of a hill. Macaulay. Under the slopes of Pisgah. Deut. iv. 49. . Note: A slope, considered as descending, is a declivity; considered as ascending, an acclivity. Slope of a plane , the direction of the plane; as, parallel planes have the same slope.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SLOPE)

• Declivity
• Descent
• fall
• slope
• incline
• devexity
• Dip
• Declination
• depression
• Incline Slope
• bear
• lean
• point
• tend
• dispose
• induce
• dip
• bias
• prompt
• slant
• be disposed
• Lean Incline
• rest
• support
• bend
• depend
• hang
• repose
• confide
• Recline
• Lean
• lie

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SLOPE)

• Trend
• diverge
• ascend
• deter
• rise
• indispose
• disincline
• Slave
• prevent
• dissuade
• Rise
• stand
• wander
• flit
• flutter
• remove
• transfer
• Drop
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• discontinue
• oppose
• discourage
• weaken
• exhaust
• thwart
• discountenance
• disfavor
• subvert
• suppress

Related words: (words related to SLOPE)

• CONFIDER
  One who confides.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• INDUCER
  One who, or that which, induces or incites.
• CONFIDENCE
  1. The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in. Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's integrity. South. A cheerful confidence in
• DECLINATION
  The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. (more info) 1. The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. 2. The act or state of falling off or declining
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• DISPOSURE
  1. The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. Give up My estate to his disposure. Massinger. 2. Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. In a kind of warlike disposure. Sir H. Wotton.
• DISPOSITED
  Disposed. Glanvill.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• CONFIDENT
  See DRYDEN
• ASCENDENCY
  Governing or controlling influence; domination; power. An undisputed ascendency. Macaulay. Custom has an ascendency over the understanding. Watts. Syn. -- Control; authority; influence; sway; dominion; prevalence; domination.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• DISPOSITOR
  The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. Crabb. (more info) 1. A disposer.
• DISPOSE
  Etym: 1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Who hath disposed the whole world Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• LAPIDESCENT
  Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• INDEPENDENCY
  Doctrine and polity of the Independents. (more info) 1. Independence. "Give me," I cried , "My bread, and independency!" Pope.
• SELF-DEPENDING
  Depending on one's self.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.