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Sloping — Slop ing, a. Inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon, or from a horizontal or other right line; oblique; declivous; slanting. {Slop ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster] The sloping land recedes into the clouds. Cowper. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

Sloping — When beetling cloth it frequently happens that the selvedge and the adjacent cloth has not received the same amount of beetling as the rest. To overcome this difficulty, the cloth is wound on the beam in a slanting direction, called sloping … Dictionary of the English textile terms

sloping — index oblique (slanted) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary

sloping — adjective 1. having an oblique or slanted direction (Freq. 2) • Syn: ↑aslant, ↑aslope, ↑diagonal, ↑slanted, ↑slanting, ↑sloped • Similar to: ↑inclined … Useful english dictionary

Sloping — Slope Slope, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sloped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sloping}.] 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 … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

sloping — adjective That has or have a slope. a sloping roof … Wiktionary

sloping — adj. Sloping is used with these nouns: ↑ceiling, ↑forehead, ↑hill, ↑roof … Collocations dictionary

sloping — adjective a sloping floor Syn: at a slant, on a slant, at an angle, slanting, slanted, leaning, inclining, inclined, angled, cambered, canted, tilting, tilted, dipping Ant: level … Thesaurus of popular words

sloping — Synonyms and related words: aslant, aslope, atilt, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, canting, careening, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined, inclining, leaning, listing, oblique, out of plumb, out of square, pitched, pitching, raking, recumbent,… … Moby Thesaurus

sloping — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. askew, tilted, slanted; see oblique 1 … English dictionary for students

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ÊŠpɪŋ adj. slanting, inclined, oblique slÉ



ÊŠp n. side of a hill, incline; upward or downward slant; degree to which a surface deviates from the vertical v. incline, slant upward or downward; cause to tilt, slant … English contemporary dictionary

sloping — a. Inclining, slanting, declivous, oblique … New dictionary of synonyms

sloping — adj oblique, slanted, diagonal. See slanting … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

sloping — adjective Syn: slanting, leaning, inclined, angled, cambered, tilted Ant: level … Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

sloping — See: slope … English dictionary

Sloping Island — Sloping Island, incorporating the adjacent Sloping Reef, is an island nature reserve, with an area of 117 ha, in south eastern Australia. It is part of the Sloping Island Group, lying close to the south eastern coast of Tasmania around the Tasman … Wikipedia