sloping

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsləʊpɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsloʊpɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -əʊpɪŋ
• Hyphenation: slop‧ing

Adjective

sloping (comparative more sloping, superlative most sloping)

1. Having a slope.

   a sloping roof

   • 1993, Peter Redgrove, “The Mountain”, in The Laborators, Taxus Press, →ISBN, page 27:

     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

Synonyms

• declivitous
• gradient
• (typography) lazy

Derived terms

• downsloping
• nonsloping
• slopingly
• slopingness
• unsloping
• upsloping

Translations

having a slope — see also sloped

• Bulgarian: наклонен (bg) (naklonen)
• Galician: ladeiro
• Māori: pīnaki (gentle), pīneki (gentle), aupaki, tāwhati, pānaki, pānaki (gentle)
• Plautdietsch: scheef (nds)
• Woiwurrung: kur-nurm-bil-ber-ding

Verb

sloping

1. present participle and gerund of slope
2. (syntactically adverbial) in a sloping manner

   the road cut through the fields sloping

Noun

sloping (plural slopings)

1. An arrangement or motion by which something slopes.

Derived terms

• downsloping
• upsloping

Anagrams

• Polings, polings

Dutch

Etymology

From slopen +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsloː.pɪŋ/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: slo‧ping

Noun

sloping f (plural slopingen, no diminutive)

1. demolition, the act or process of demolishing