slopen.1
/sləʊp/, U.S. /sloʊp/ 1. in extended use.1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 202 The self-complacent actor, when he views..The slope of faces, from the floor to th' roof.figurative.1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxii. 88 On Fortune's crowning slope . View more context for this quotation1887 W. Besant World went very well Then I. ii. 37 We are now nearing three score years, and on the downward slope of life.
a. A stretch of rising or falling ground; a portion of the earth's surface marked by a gradual ascent or descent, whether natural or artificial. spec. in plural, ski-slopes.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [noun]
hield943
lithOE
pendanta1387
bankc1390
slentc1400
shoring1567
rist1577
inclining1596
slope1626
side-slip1649
slant1655
sideling1802
hang1808
siding1852
counterslope1853
bajada1866
tilt1903
palaeoslope1957
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > [noun] > ski slope or run
piste1917
nursery slope1924
ski run1924
ski slope1934
schuss1937
fall line1938
bunny slope1954
run1956
black diamond1969
traverse1969
slope1972
ski ramp1973
dry slope1974
motorway1979
off-piste1986
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §537 The growing [of moss] upon Slopes.
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner i. iii. xiv. 167 These Banks or Slopes are very useful..for producing Early and Hasting Peas.
1746 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 78 Falling fast from gradual Slope to Slope.
1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 19 A slope of country..very well wooded.
1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1865) 88 The very large garden that occupies the whole slope of the hill on which the house stands.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 11 My eyes were fixed upon a white slope some thousands of feet above me.
1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon I. 340 The village stood on a gentle slope.
1924 K. Furse Ski-running p. vi Every beginner should be content to devote two or three of his first days to the Nursery slopes.
1972 P. A. Whitney Snowfire (1973) vi. 100 Snow bunny..was a term applied to beginners, usually female, who haunted the slopes.
1976 J. Farris Fury (1977) xviii. 306 He bought..clothing for the slopes and for après-ski.
b. An inclined surface of the nature of a bank, esp. one artificially constructed, as in fortification or engineering.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [noun] > inclination from the level or slope > a sloping object, surface, etc. > of a bank
slope1702
scarfing1721
batter1743
1702 Mil. & Sea Dict. (1711) at Counterscarp Counterscarp is properly the Talus, or Slope of the Ditch, on the farther side from the Place.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 12 You may lower the Ground on each side with a slope two Foot deep.
1774 Hull Dock Act 8 At any time after that the said slope or batter is made.
1811 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) VII. 638 Some time must elapse before a slope will be made in it by battering.
1838 F. W. Simms Public Wks. Great Brit. 19 The slopes of the excavation shall be finished as the cutting advances.
1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 390/1.
c. Mining. An inclined roadway.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > passage
gate1747
road1770
gangway1778
gateway1786
bolt-hole1839
trumpeting1839
travelling road1851
slope1863
spout-road1882
1863 Harper's Mag. Sept. 459/2 There is an entrance to the mine by means of an inclined plane, called a slope.
1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 41 To get down to these [seams] there are at present two slopes and one tunnel... Each of the slopes is furnished with hoisting-engines.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 227.
1890 Daily News 8 Feb. 5/8 A dozen men escaped..in the log slope some distance away from Cook's slope.
2.
a. Upward or downward inclination; deviation from the horizontal or perpendicular.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [noun] > inclination from the level or slope
pendencec1475
slope1611
sloping1611
rakingc1620
shelving1687
rake1802
dislevelment1883
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Talus, a slope, sloping, slopenesse.
1664 J. Evelyn tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. i. iii. 16 Its extraordinary projecture,..which is after a sort augmented by the sloops which the Architect has given to the drops which compose the ornament of the nether face.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Talus The Talus of a Bastion or Rampart, is the Slope allowed to such a Work.
1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry ii. i. 129 Where the ground had not slope enough for the water to run off.
1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul i. i. 86 The slope of the countries on each side of the mountains, is pointed out by the direction of the streams.
1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 139 The frame timbers are then cut by the sawyers to the slope required by the moulds.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 15 The rapidity with which a river flows will depend upon the amount of slope in its bed.
b. Military. A position between perpendicular and horizontal.
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society > armed hostility > drill or training > [noun] > weapon-training > manual exercise > position of weapon > specific
chargea1616
recover1692
secure1766
present1777
port arms1795
carry1802
salute1833
trail1833
ready1837
order1847
parade rest1862
slope1868
port1918
1868 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army §615 e The crowbar is carried at the Slope resting on the right Shoulder.
1887 Times (Weekly ed.) 28 Oct. 18/4 I..brought the rifle from the ‘slope’ to the ‘port’.
c. The tangent of the angle between a line and the horizontal; the ratio of the projection on the y-axis of an infinitesimal segment of a graph to its projection on the x-axis; the value of the first differential of some quantity, esp. with respect to distance.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > line > [noun] > tangent
touchline1551
adscript1636
tangent1655
focal tangent1706
semi-tangent1823
tractor1867
bitangent1873
slope1889
1889 J. A. Fleming Alternate Current Transformer I. iii. 92 We shall call the trigonometrical tangent of the angle PTN, the slope of the tangent at the point P.
1889 J. A. Fleming Alternate Current Transformer I. iii. 93 The firm line curve is a curve of sines... The dotted line is a curve of sines, whose ordinate QN at any point represents the slope of the tangent at P on the original curve.
1898 Proc. Royal Soc. 60 478 If the slope of RR is positive we may say that large values of x are on the whole associated with large values of y, if it is negative large values of x are associated with small values of y.
1905 Physical Rev. 20 174 The difference of temperature slope at different parts of the two bars was measured by means of thermoelectric couples.
1933 G. van Praagh Introd. Calculus i. 9 If y is a function of x, the differential coefficient or derivative of y with respect to x measures the rate of change of y with x for some particular value of x, x1, and is the slope of the graph of f(x) at the point x1.
1959 Listener 26 Feb. 371/2 The ball will slow up because of the gravitational ‘slope’.
1971 Physics Bull. Feb. 86/1 A ln σ against 1/T plot should, at the temperature of conversion, exhibit a change of slope.
3.
a. A slant; an inclined surface of any kind. Also with defining words.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [noun] > inclination from the level or slope > a sloping object, surface, etc.
clininga1552
slant1655
slope1707
incline1798
inclination1809
angle1840
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 397 [In] those Boughs that lean from the Head, cut the sloap on the lower side.
1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 98 Shell triangular,..cartilage slope rather protruded.
1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 91 Two pieces of wood carved out to fill the slope of the upper part of the face.
1898 Geogr. Jrnl. May 533 Mud travels persistently from the shore seawards, and..forms the bottom over vast tracts beneath deep-sea water, e.g. at the foot of the continental slope.
1903 E. Howe in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. Oct. 317 The Soufrière rises on all sides, with even, constructional slopes of rather low angle, to an altitude of a little over 4,000 feet.
1928 L. E. H. Whitby Med. Bacteriol. iii. 46 Secondary cultures, or subcultures, are made by picking colonies from the plate and planting them on to slopes.
1951 L. E. H. Whitby & M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 5) iii. 24 Slopes are made by allowing the medium to set in test-tubes or bottles tilted about 10° from the horizontal.
1974 R. K. Pawsey Techniques with Bacteria iv. 51 The loop is introduced to the base of the slope and a wavy line made on the slope with the loop gradually rising to the top.
b. A desk, or substitute for this, having a sloping top.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > desk > [noun]
deskc1405
lectern1509
dess1552
book desk1686
prie-dieu1687
bureau1698
secretary1803
toys1816
secretaire1818
consulting-desk1823
slope1833
box-desk1860
roll-top1884
type-desk1901
partners' desk1925
partners' pedestal desk1930
console1944
1833 T. Hook Widow xi, in Love & Pride II. 25 A small writing-desk, or as it is technically called by cabinet-makers, a slope.
1897 Army & Navy Stores List 742 Blotting Desk Slopes.., room under the pad for loose papers.
c. Bacteriology. = slant n.1 3b.
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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > material > [noun] > culture or medium
culture1880
blood culture1881
cultivation1881
culture medium1883
pure culture1883
agar1885
broth1885
subculture1885
tube-culture1886
bouillon1887
stab-culture1889
streak culture1892
blood agar1893
microculture1893
shake culture1894
streak plate1895
broth culture1897
slant1899
plating1900
stock culture1903
touch preparation1908
tissue culture1912
plaque1924
slope1925
agar-agar1929
isolate1931
MacConkey1938
auxanogram1949
lawn1951
monolayer1952
replica plate1952
1925 J. W. Bigger Handbk. Bacteriol. 38 ‘Slopes’ or ‘slants’ are generally used for the growth of bacteria already isolated in pure culture.
1928 L. E. H. Whitby Med. Bacteriol. 44 The medium may be..allowed to solidify as a slope by laying the tubes in a slanting position with a tilt of about 10º.
1928 L. E. H. Whitby Med. Bacteriol. 50 Slope cultures. Slopes are used mainly for subculturing the pure colonies that have developed on plates.
4. Nautical. (See quot. 1867.)
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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Slope of Wind, a breeze favouring a long tack near to the required course, and which may be expected to veer to fair.
5. Electronics. The mutual conductance of a valve (so called because it is numerically equal to the slope of one of the characteristic curves of the valve).
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > thermionic valve > [noun] > anode of valve > current of > rates of change to grid voltage
mutual conductance1918
slope1932
1918 Wireless World Nov. 458 (heading) A thermionic valve slopemeter.
1918 Wireless World Nov. 458 The effectiveness of a valve as a relay and amplifier depends primarily on the slope of the grid voltage-plate current characteristic.]
1932 B.B.C. Year-bk. 395 It is now the common practice of valve manufacturers to give a figure for the mutual conductance (or slope) of each of their products.
1948 C. A. Quarrington Mod. Pract. Radio & Television (ed. 2) I. x. 78 The measurement of slope may be carried out under any conditions of grid voltage.
1953 A. H. W. Beck Thermionic Valves ix. 246 The mutual conductance or slope = (∂Ia/∂Vg), Va const.
6. U.S. slang. (depreciative and offensive). A person from East or South-East Asia; (more recently) spec. a Vietnamese person. Cf. slopehead n. at slope- comb. form 2, slopy n., and slant n.1 10.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > person by shape of eyes or forehead > [noun]
slant-eye1929
slant1942
slope1948
slopy1948
roundeye1955
slopehead1966
1948 G. H. Johnston Death takes Small Bites v. 121 He seemed a hell of a lot more concerned with his bunch of flea-bitten slopes and his pots of medicine.
1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1964 xlii. 45 Slope and slopehead were the most popular terms applied to all ‘indigenous personnel’ [in Korea in 1950–1].
1966 New Statesman 25 Mar. 436/3 He confirms the soldiers' contempt for the Vietnamese (‘slopes’ and ‘gooks’).
1969 Eugene (Oregon) Register-Guard 3 Dec. 2A/4 He also criticized U.S. military training, which he said permits references to the Vietnamese as ‘gooks, dinks, or slopes’.
1978 R. Thomas Chinaman's Chance iii. 35 All the Chinaman's gotta do is get into Saigon... Once he's in nobody's gonna notice him, because all those slopes look alike.
7. Used attributively to designate a quantity defined as a rate of change or derivative instead of as a ratio; chiefly in slope resistance.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > [adjective] > designating rate
slope1931
1931 L. B. Turner Wireless vii. 203 In the metallic parts of the circuits..the slope resistance ∂e/∂i and Ohm's resistance e/i are equal.
1931 L. B. Turner Wireless viii. 235 It is necessary to allow..for the very small slope or differential permeability dB/dH of the core.
1971 Gloss. Electrotechnical Power Terms (B.S.I.) ii. ii. 18 Slope resistance, value of forward resistance calculated from the slope of the straight line used when determining the threshold voltage from the forward current/voltage drop characteristics of a diode or thyristor in the on-state.
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slopen.2
/sləʊp/, U.S. /sloʊp/ colloquial.
An act of making off, running or slinking away, etc.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [noun] > a going away
disanchoring1548
Exodus1623
slope1859
waying1922
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 416 Slope, a running away, elopement, escape.
1897– Eng. Dial. Dict. ‘To do a slope’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
slopeadj.
/sləʊp/, U.S. /sloʊp/ Now poetic.† 2. Affording no certainty. Obsolete. rare.
1. Sloping, slanting.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] > inclined from level or sloping
pyramidala1398
shoringc1503
slopec1503
pitching1519
current?1523
battering1589
pitched1594
aslope1599
sloping1610
shelving1615
stooping1621
raking1665
sloped1683
shedding1688
slopy1740
raked1948
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxiiij/1 Thou most..kitt it soo with a slope draught.
1555 W. Waterman tr. Josephus in tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions sig. U.iiij But se there be none ascence ther vnto by staiers, but onely..by a slope bancque of Turfes.
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. xi. f. 142v What is the Zodiaque? It is a broad, oblique, or slope Circle.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §880 There the Water Rowleth, and Moveth,..with a Sloper Rise, and Fall.
1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. iii. 46 The slope Teeth of the Worm wheel will gather into the slope Grooves of the Spindle.
1724 W. Hope Vindic. Art Self-def. 131 Cross his sword..by a slop or squint motion of your sword-hand.
1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 440 To drain the stagnate Fen, to raise the slope Depending Road.
1811 J. Parkins Young Man's Best Compan. 27 For the slope hands, turn your left side a little towards the desk.
1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket ii. ii. 105 Holy Church..will not wreck, nor our Archbishop Stagger on the slope decks.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > unreliability > [adjective]
unsicker?c1225
uncertaina1382
unsadc1384
untristya1387
untrustya1387
unsurec1412
falliblec1425
slipperc1430
ficklea1450
frivol1488
slidder?a1500
casuala1535
slippery1548
slippy1548
failable1561
doubtful1562
lubricious1584
slope1587
queasy1589
unconfirmedc1592
nice1598
catching1603
loose1603
precary1606
ambiguous1612
treacherous1612
unsafe1615
unsureda1616
precarious1626
lubric1631
dubious1635
lubricous1646
unestablished1646
unfixed1654
unsecure?a1685
unreliable1810
unproven1836
untrustworthy1846
shady1848
wobbly1877
Kaffir1899
independable1921
dodgy1961
temperamental1962
1587 J. Higgins Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) Forrex xviii. 6 For hope is sloape, and hold is hard to snatche.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
slopev.1
/sləʊp/, U.S. /sloʊp/ 1. intransitive. To take, to move or proceed in, an oblique direction.In some cases with suggestion of sense 2.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > move in an oblique direction
slope1605
squint1721
quarter1806
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 170 He..sloaping swiftly ouerthwart those Seas..Makes double hast to finde some happie strand.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 479 Where Tytans..Chariot sloaps.
1633 Cal. of State P., E. India & P. VIII. 380 The houses being so near the waterside that a man coming ashore may presently slope into one and find chapmen.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Ballad Dark Ladie iv The sun was sloping down the sky.
1825 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 19 Nov. 449 Crossing Lord Carnarvon's park..and sloping away to our right over the downs.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 22 The sun was sloping to the west.
1891 W. C. Russell Marriage at Sea I. iv. 106 The [setting] sun that was now sloping into the Atlantic.
2. To assume, to have or be in, a sloping or slanting position or direction.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > incline or be oblique [verb (intransitive)] > slope
pitch?1440
shore?1521
shed1530
batter1546
shoal1621
peck1639
slope1691
rake1722
underlay1728
underlie1778
the world > space > direction > specific directions > have specific directions [verb (intransitive)] > have downward direction > extend downwards
falleOE
descendc1400
to grow down?1523
dip1854
slope1877
α.
β. 1691 W. Hope Compl. Fencing-master 31 Your point most not slop toward your Adversaries thigh.1709 W. Dampier Contin. Voy. New-Holland iii. 88 The burning Island..runs from the Sea a little sloaping towards the Top.
1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. ii. ix. 203 That the first coulter be set almost perpendicular..; that the second slope but a little.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 106 The canal..should slope about four inches in the first 200 yards.
a1861 T. Twining Trav. India (1893) 128 On the left of the fire-place was a sofa, which sloped across the room.
1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xviii. 478 The corner where the mountain slopes down to the river.
3.
a. transitive. To bring into, to place or put in, a sloping or slanting position; to bend down; to direct downwards or obliquely.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > incline [verb (transitive)] > place in a sloping position
steep1613
slopea1616
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)]
besench971
avalec1314
sinka1325
lighta1400
to get downa1450
abasec1450
descenda1475
base1489
fall1595
slopea1616
dimit1628
demit1646
send1657
down1852
dip1879
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 73 Though Pallaces, and Pyramids do slope Their heads to their Foundations. View more context for this quotation
1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 21 in Justa Edouardo King Till the ev'n-starre..Toward heav'ns descent had slop'd his burnisht wheel.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 223 The flames..slope their pointing spires. View more context for this quotation
1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence i. lviii When Dan Sol to slope his wheels began.
1833 H. Ellis Elgin Marbles I. ii. 14 They come.., sloping their way.
1844 Ld. Houghton Mem. Many Scenes 104 His spirit of splendour has gone forth, Sloping wide violet rays.
b. spec. To bring (a weapon) into, or hold (it) in, a sloping position. Also transferred.
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society > armed hostility > drill or training > drill [verb (transitive)] > position weapons
charge1509
trailc1550
present1579
recover1594
return1598
handle1621
rest1622
port1625
slope1625
reverse1630
to order arms1678
carry1779
1625 G. Markham Souldiers Accidence 24 Sloape your Musquet.
a1640 P. Massinger & J. Fletcher Very Woman iii. i. 111 in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) Face to your left hand; Fether your Hat; slope your Hat; now charge your honor.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xix. 147/2 Slope your pike, is to draw the But end of the pike (being shouldred) almost to the ground and the point aloft.
1707 W. Hope New Method Fencing 13 He must, as the thrust is coming home, slop his point to make a cross.
1797 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry (rev. ed.) App. 259 In general, swords will be carried with the blade resting on the hollow of the shoulder, and by the word Slope Swords.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad vii. 261 Till..the meeting ranks Slope their strong bayonets.
1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 34 The leading division will..slope arms.
4.
a. To cut, form, or make, with a slope or slant.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > incline [verb (transitive)] > place in a sloping position > make with a slope
battera1398
slope1715
escarp1728
ramp1766
scarp1803
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Taluër, to slope, to set, cut, or make aslope.
1715 J. T. Desaguliers tr. N. Gauger Fires Improv'd 122 Let both be bezell'd or sloap'd.
1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 216 The first [way] is, to slope the cion off a full inch, or more.
1797 Trans. Soc. Arts 15 188 The bank and ditch being properly laid out and sloped.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 216 Each side..should be sloped off, to receive the bond of the adjoining work.
a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) l. 249 Mouldings which received much rain..were very much more sloped than in Classic work.
b. absol. To give a slope to the letters in writing.
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society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > write in specific style [verb (intransitive)] > slope
slope1836
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xiv. 137 The lines they used to rule in the copybooks at school, to make the boys slope well.
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slopev.2
/sləʊp/, U.S. /sloʊp/ colloquial.
1.
a. intransitive. To make off, depart, decamp.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)]
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
atwendOE
awayOE
to wend awayOE
awendOE
gangOE
rimeOE
flitc1175
to fare forthc1200
depart?c1225
part?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
biwitec1300
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to draw awayc1330
passc1330
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
voidc1374
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
waive1390
to pass out ofa1398
avoida1400
to pass awaya1400
to turn awaya1400
slakec1400
wagc1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
muck1429
packc1450
recede1450
roomc1450
to show (a person) the feetc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
devoidc1485
rebatea1500
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
to go one's ways1530
retire?1543
avaunt1549
to make out1558
trudge1562
vade?1570
fly1581
leave1593
wag1594
to get off1595
to go off1600
to put off1600
shog1600
troop1600
to forsake patch1602
exit1607
hence1614
to give offa1616
to take off1657
to move off1692
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
sheera1704
to go about one's business1749
mizzle1772
to move out1792
transit1797–1803
stump it1803
to run away1809
quit1811
to clear off1816
to clear out1816
nash1819
fuff1822
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
mosey1829
slope1830
to tail out1830
to walk one's chalks1835
to take away1838
shove1844
trot1847
fade1848
evacuate1849
shag1851
to get up and get1854
to pull out1855
to cut (the) cable(s)1859
to light out1859
to pick up1872
to sling one's Daniel or hook1873
to sling (also take) one's hook1874
smoke1893
screw1896
shoot1897
voetsak1897
to tootle off1902
to ship out1908
to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909
to push off1918
to bugger off1922
biff1923
to fuck off1929
to hit, split or take the breeze1931
to jack off1931
to piss offa1935
to do a mick1937
to take a walk1937
to head off1941
to take a hike1944
moulder1945
to chuff off1947
to get lost1947
to shoot through1947
skidoo1949
to sod off1950
peel1951
bug1952
split1954
poop1961
mugger1962
frig1965
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)]
to come awayeOE
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
awayOE
dealc1000
goOE
awendOE
rimeOE
to go one's wayOE
flitc1175
depart?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
to turn awaya1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
recede1450
roomc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
avaunt1549
trudge1562
vade?1570
discoast1571
leave1593
wag1594
to go off1600
troop1600
hence1614
to set on one's foota1616
to pull up one's stumps1647
quit1811
to clear out1816
slope1830
to walk one's chalks1835
shove1844
to roll out1850
to pull out1855
to light out1859
to take a run-out powder1909
to push off (also along)1923
1830 Palladium of Brit. N. Amer. (Toronto) 29 Aug. 224/1 Bad climate indeed, wonder people dont all slope.
1839 F. Marryat Diary in Amer. II. 232 Here are two real American words:—‘Sloping’—for slinking away; ‘Splunging’, like a porpoise.
1857 ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 19 He sloped, he went off.
1866 M. E. Braddon Lady's Mile i We may as well slope,..it's nearly 7 o'clock.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 80 You may go straight..to the..police station as soon as I slope.
b. With adverbs, esp. off. Also, to move (off, in, etc.) in a leisurely manner; to amble (in, etc.); to depart surreptitiously, sneak off.
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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > in leisurely manner
wandera1616
whig1689
slope1851
tool1862
poodle1938
the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > move or go slowly [verb (intransitive)]
creepc1175
lugc1400
to hold (also keep) foot withc1438
crawlc1460
lounge?a1513
slug1565
drawl1566
draggle1577
fodge1581
snail1582
laggerc1620
slagger1622
snail1628
flod1674
delay1690
to drag one’s slow length along1711
soss1711
loiter1728
trail1744
sidle1781
soodle1821
linger1826
ooze1847
slope1851
laggard1864
dawdle1872
tiddle1882
oozle1958
pootle1973
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away quietly or stealthily
steal1154
to steal one's wayc1385
skew?a1400
astealc1400
fleetc1400
slip?c1450
shrink1530
flinch1563
shift1594
foist1603
shab1699
slope1851
smuggle1865
sneak1896
mope1914
to oil out1945
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)] > quietly or stealthily
fleetc1400
slip?c1450
flinch1563
shift1594
slope1851
1851 M. Reid Rifle Rangers vi. 50 We can't go on to Washington—what can we do but slope home again?
1861 Sat. Rev. 22 June 629 If it is pretty lively, they stay; if it is dull, they slope off.
1876 A. Trollope Prime Minister II. xvi. 265 You should have seen the policeman sloping over and putting himself in the way.
1898 G. W. E. Russell Coll. & Recoll. xxxiv. 477 Whoever slopes homewards, the Government must stay.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 290 Come in, come on, he won't eat you... So Bloom slopes in with his cod's eye on the dog.
1980 Private Eye 26 Sept. 13/1 Anyway, he sloped in for a chinwag with the Boss.
2. transitive. To leave (lodgings) without paying.In the sense of ‘cheat, trick’, slope is recorded in dialect use from 1828 onwards.
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1908 J. B. Turnbull Reminisc. Stonemason 100 They had ‘sloped’ their lodgings.
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† slopev.3
Obsolete. rare.
(Meaning obscure.)
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a1400 Minor Poems from Vernon MS xxxvii. 772 And ȝif þe luste riȝt wel slope, Cum whon he doþ of his Masse-cope.
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slopeadv.
/sləʊp/, U.S. /sloʊp/ In a sloping or slanting manner or position. (In later use only poetic.)
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adverb] > slopingly
slope1530
slopewise1530
slopingly1644
shelving1649
slopeways1670
shelvingly1680
1530 tr. Caesar Commentaryes v. 8 Theyr horsys ronne in placys slope steepyng.
1572 L. Mascall tr. in Bk. Plant & Graffe Trees 78 Ye shall bore slope a hole with an auger, in the biggest parte of the bodye of the tree.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 129 Both sortes must be layed slope, that the water may runne away.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures (1663) lv. 217 The Temple..is built all slope fifteen fathom high.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 591 That bright beam, whose point now raisd Bore him slope downward to the Sun. View more context for this quotation
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 30 Steep before them stood, Slope from the town, a heaven-illumined road.
1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. i, in Lamia & Other Poems 156 Hyperion..Came slope upon the threshold of the west.
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