slope

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1. slope - Noun

2. slope - Adjective

3. slope - Verb

4. slope - Adverb

Meaning

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.

Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.

Sloping.

In a sloping manner.

To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.

To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.

To depart; to disappear suddenly.

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I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips. Amos Oz

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere. Fernando Pessoa

We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big. Adam Sandler

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries. Leon Kass

People working on the slope of a mountain do not look at the buttocks of one another. Ghana Proverb

You find snails on the mountain slope with the dew from the ravines. Sicilian Proverb

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