• (GA) IPA: /sloʊp/
• (RP) IPA: /sləʊp/

slope

1. An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.

   I had to climb a small slope to get to the site.

2. The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.

   The road has a very sharp downward slope at that point.

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.

   The slope of this line is 0.5

4. (mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.

   The slope of a parabola increases linearly with x.

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).

   The slope of an asphalt shingle roof system should be 4:12 or greater.

6. (vulgar, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.

• (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

• French: pente
• German: Steigung, Hang, Abhang
• Italian: pendio
• Portuguese: ladeira, declive, vertente
• Russian: склон
• Spanish: pendiente, cuesta

• French: pente, inclinaison
• German: Steigung (upward), Gefälle (downward)
• Italian: pendenza
• Portuguese: inclinação
• Russian: укло́н
• Spanish: desnivel, inclinación

• French: pente
• German: Steigung
• Italian: inclinazione
• Portuguese: declive, gradiente
• Russian: накло́н
• Spanish: inclinación

• French: pente
• German: Steigung, Ableitung, Gradient
• Spanish: pendiente

• Spanish: pendiente

• German: Schlitzauge, Schlitzi
• Italian: muso giallo
• Portuguese: amarelo, olho puxado
• Russian: узкогла́зый
• Spanish: ojo chueco, chuequito

slope (slopes, present participle sloping; past and past participle sloped)

1. (intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.

   The road slopes sharply down at that point.

2. (transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.

   to slope the ground in a garden;   to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment

3. (colloquial, usually, followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously.

   I sloped in through the back door, hoping my boss wouldn't see me.

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.

   The order was given to "slope arms".

• Portuguese: inclinar

slope

1. (obsolete) Sloping.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Gardens

     A bank not steep, but gently slope.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 4”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     Down the slope hills.

slope

1. (obsolete) slopingly