- to have or take an inclined or oblique direction or angle considered with reference to a vertical or horizontal plane; slant.
- to move at an inclination or obliquely: They sloped gradually westward.
- to direct at a slant or inclination; incline from the horizontal or vertical: The sun sloped its beams.
- to form with a slope or slant: to slope an embankment.
- ground that has a natural incline, as the side of a hill.
- inclination or slant, especially downward or upward.
- deviation from the horizontal or vertical.
- an inclined surface.
- hills, especially foothills or bluffs: the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
- Mathematics.
- the tangent of the angle between a given straight line and the x-axis of a system of Cartesian coordinates.
- the derivative of the function whose graph is a given curve evaluated at a designated point.
- a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of East Asian origin, especially a Vietnamese or other South Asian.
- to make one's way out slowly or furtively.
- to lie or cause to lie at a slanting or oblique angle
- (esp of natural features) to follow an inclined course
- to go furtively
- (formerly) to hold (a rifle) in the slope position (esp in the command slope arms)
- an inclined portion of ground
- hills or foothills
- any inclined surface or line
- the degree or amount of such inclination
- maths
- (of a line) the tangent of the angle between the line and another line parallel to the x- axis
- the first derivative of the equation of a curve at a given point
- (formerly) the position adopted for British military drill when the rifle is rested on the shoulder
- a person from Southeast Asia, especially a Vietnamese
