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(n)
A slope or inclination.
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(uncountable) Meat with no fat on it.
The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
(countable) An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
The downwards force an object experiences due to gravity.
(geometry) A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).
A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
(v)
heel over
A slope.
A slope or incline.
A tendency.
(syntactically adverbial) in a sloping manner
An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
The motion of something that tilts; a tilt.
Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
(uncountable) The state or quality of being steep.
Synonym of obliquity.
(geometry) An oblique line.
Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side
An act of folding.
A small piece of paper, with a design and a face value, used to prepay postage or other dues such as tax or licence fees.
(literal, figurative) The act of cutting.
(countable) The determination of the relative position of something or someone.
A slashing action or motion:
(also figuratively) An act of drawing near in place or time; an advancing or coming near.
A fad or fashion style.
An angle, outlook or point of view.
The act of seeing or looking at something.
(transitive) To give a false or misleading account of; pervert.
An edge that is canted, one that is not a 90-degree angle; a chamfer.
Advice or counselling on some topic.
Any specific feature, part, or element of something.
A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long.
A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.
(chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
(adj)
Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.
(countable, uncountable) Inclination towards something.
Preference, bias in favor of, tendency.
Arranged so as to form an angle.
An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.
British standard spelling of flavor.
A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing.
(surfing) A surf maneuver where the upright surfer leans back against the wave.
(music) A specific pitch.
In the United Kingdom, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a pound sterling, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: p.
A twisting force.
(ergative) To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
(with on) Determined or insistent; inclined, set.
(physical) To move, or be moved, away.
(figuratively) The choice of a single angle or point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience.
An attitude or point of view.
A downward slant.
An instance of descending; act of coming down.
An upward slant.
A slope that is tilted towards a road.
(US) The side or slope of a hill; a sloping descent.
A slope of a hill.
The side of a slope.
A descent or declivity.
(dated, nautical) wind shift, a variation of the wind direction.
(music) A slur in which the pitch of the note descends.
An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
The uphill or downhill slope of a road (typically given as a percentage)
A slope or declivity in a manège ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to its haunches.
A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath), metal, or plastic.
The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
A mountain slope used for skiing.
(architecture) A straight sloped part of a ceiling, such as on the underside of a pitched roof.
The sliding of a mass of land down a cliff or slope; a landslide.
A downward slope away from the bank of a river, mountain, etc.
the sloping side of a mountain
an upward slope
An act or instance of slipping.
A basin used for holding water for washing.
(military) A slope or sloping down toward the front.
(geology) The act or result of slumping or sinking down.
An overhanging slope.
An upward slope of a mountain, etc.
The gently inclined hillslope at the foot of a hill
(textiles) A custom-fitted basic pattern from which patterns for many different styles can be created.
An inclined surface of the ground.
A lessening of performance or achievement.
A slope that is tilted away from a road.
(aviation) The portion of an instrument landing system which provides vertical guidance to an aircraft during an approach to landing.
The side of a hill.
A geological event in which viscous mud flows down an incline.
(anatomy) The bone of the ankle.
An avalanche, mudslide, or a like slumping of material or debris.
The motion of something that slides.
The sloping side of a mountain.
the result of a slumping movement, like that of a mountain
(baseball) A pitch in which the pitcher throws a slider as if he or she were throwing a curve ball.
(geology) The outermost gently inclined slope at the base of a hill
(meteorology) Air descending a slope, resulting in adiabatic warming and reduction in relative humidity.