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sloping en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /ˈsləʊpɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈsloʊpɪŋ/ (General-American)

Meanings

  1. Having a slope.
    • The beefarm on her sloping meadows, the sweet / Exacting spaces spinning honey; / Under the elms and the sycamores / The light leaves cherish many flowers, / The light air under the boughs threaded / With the vivid bees who return 1993, Peter Redgrove, “The Mountain”, in The Laborators, Taxus Press, →ISBN, page 27:
    • a sloping roof

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most sloping Degree=Sup lexicographic
more sloping Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

nonsloping · slopingness · downsloping · slopingly · unsloping · upsloping

Synonyms

declivitous · gradient

Translations (9)

mi tāwhati (having a slope) · gl ladeiro (having a slope) · pdt scheef (nds) (having a slope) · mi pīneki (having a slope) · mi aupaki (having a slope) · mi pīnaki (having a slope) · bg наклонен (having a slope) · mi pānaki (having a slope) · mi pānaki (having a slope)

sloping en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /ˈsləʊpɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈsloʊpɪŋ/ (General-American)

Meanings

  1. An arrangement or motion by which something slopes.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
slopings Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

downsloping · upsloping

sloping en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /ˈsləʊpɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈsloʊpɪŋ/ (General-American)

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of slope
    form of slope
  2. (qualifier:syntactically adverbial) in a sloping manner
    • the road cut through the fields sloping