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SLOPING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a slanting form or direction
Example:
a room with a sloping ceiling
Classified under:
Similar:
gradual ((of a topographical gradient) not steep or abrupt)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having an oblique or slanted direction
Synonyms:
aslant; aslope; diagonal; slanted; slanting; sloped; sloping
Classified under:
Similar:
inclined (at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb slope
Context examples:
Pandas have specific habitat needs—they live in gently sloping areas far from human populations.
(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)
Palu has sandy soil, but it's in a gently sloping valley that appeared to pose little risk.
(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)
A long, sloping hillside, dotted with grey limestone boulders, stretched behind us.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Before us lay a green sloping land full of forests and woods, with here and there steep hills, crowned with clumps of trees or with farmhouses, the blank gable end to the road.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
But this danger was easily eliminated from the future, by opening an account at another bank in the name of Edward Hyde himself; and when, by sloping my own hand backward, I had supplied my double with a signature, I thought I sat beyond the reach of fate.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The sun was beginning to sink behind the stables of Mapleton, and the long, sloping plain in front of us was tinged with gold, deepening into rich, ruddy browns where the faded ferns and brambles caught the evening light.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mine was a quiet back-garret with a sloping roof, commanding a pleasant prospect of a timberyard; and when I took possession of it, with the reflection that Mr. Micawber's troubles had come to a crisis at last, I thought it quite a paradise.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I took out my pocket perspective, and could plainly discover numbers of people moving up and down the sides of it, which appeared to be sloping; but what those people where doing I was not able to distinguish.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Once, after the poor animals that conveyed me had with incredible toil gained the summit of a sloping ice mountain, and one, sinking under his fatigue, died, I viewed the expanse before me with anguish, when suddenly my eye caught a dark speck upon the dusky plain.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Now, right before us the anchorage was bounded by a plateau from two to three hundred feet high, adjoining on the north the sloping southern shoulder of the Spy-glass and rising again towards the south into the rough, cliffy eminence called the Mizzen-mast Hill.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
