Synonyms of the word

slope

• n. An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
• n. The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
• n. (mathematics) The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if…
• n. (mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
• n. The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise…
• n. (vulgar, highly offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
• v. (intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.
• v. (transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
• v. (colloquial, usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously.
• v. (military) To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt,…
• adj. (obsolete) Sloping.
• adv. (obsolete) slopingly.

angle

• n. (geometry) A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes…
• n. (geometry) The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional…
• n. A corner where two walls intersect.
• n. A change in direction.
• n. A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
• n. (media) The focus of a news story.
• n. (slang, professional wrestling) A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach…
• n. (slang) An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefitting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral.
• n. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
• n. (astrology) Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the…
• v. (transitive, often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To change direction rapidly.
• v. (transitive, informal) To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.
• v. (snooker) To leave the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle")…
• v. (intransitive) To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
• v. (informal) (with for) To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.
• n. A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.

formation

• n. Something possessing structure or form.
• n. The act of assembling a group or structure.
• n. (geology) A rock or face of a mountain.
• n. (military) A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division,…
• n. (military) An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon…
• n. (sports) An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
• n. The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
• n. The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics.

gradient

• n. A slope or incline.
• n. A rate of inclination or declination of a slope.
• n. (calculus) Of a function y = f(x) or the graph of such a function, the rate of change of y with respect…
• n. (sciences) The rate at which a physical quantity increases or decreases relative to change in a given…
• n. (analysis) A differential operator that maps each point of a scalar field to a vector pointed in the direction…
• adj. Moving by steps; walking.
• adj. Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination.
• adj. Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds.

incline

• v. (transitive) To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.
• v. (intransitive) To slope.
• v. To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view,…
• n. A slope.

lean

• v. To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
• v. To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; with to, toward, etc.
• v. To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on, upon, or against.
• v. To hang outwards.
• v. To press against.
• n. (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
• adj. (of a person or animal) slim; not fleshy.
• adj. (of meat) having little fat.
• adj. Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
• adj. Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
• adj. (printing, archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed…
• adj. efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean…
• v. To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or…
• v. To conceal.
• n. (slang) A recreational drug based on codeine laced promethazine cough syrup, popular in the hip-hop community…

pitch

• n. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
• n. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
• n. (geology) Pitchstone.
• v. To cover or smear with pitch.
• v. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
• n. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
• n. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
• n. (sports) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is…
• n. An effort to sell or promote something.
• n. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread,…
• n. The angle at which an object sits.
• n. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
• n. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
• n. The place where a busker performs.
• n. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
• n. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
• n. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
• n. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
• n. (now Britain, regional) A person or animal's height.
• n. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
• n. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
• n. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate…
• n. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
• v. (transitive) To throw.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
• v. (transitive) To throw away; discard.
• v. (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
• v. (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
• v. (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
• v. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes…
• v. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
• v. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
• v. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
• v. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
• v. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
• v. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
• v. (transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.
• n. (music) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
• n. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune…
• v. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
• v. (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.

position

• n. A place or location.
• n. A post of employment; a job.
• n. A status or rank.
• n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
• n. A posture.
• n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
• n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
• n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
• n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
• v. To put into place.

side

• n. A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
• n. A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
• n. One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
• n. A region in a specified position with respect to something.
• n. The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the…
• n. One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.).
• n. One possible aspect of a concept, person or thing.
• n. One set of competitors in a game.
• n. (Britain, Australia, Ireland) A sports team.
• n. A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
• n. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Sidespin; english.
• n. (Britain, Australia, Ireland, dated) A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being…
• n. (US, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
• n. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
• n. (baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
• v. (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with".
• v. To lean on one side.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To suit; to pair; to match.
• v. (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a siding.
• adj. Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
• adj. Indirect; oblique; incidental.
• adj. (Britain archaic, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing;…
• adj. (Scotland) Far; distant.
• adv. (Britain dialectal) Widely; wide; far.

slant

• n. A slope; an incline, inclination.
• n. A sloped surface or line.
• n. (mining) A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.
• n. (typography) Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text.
• n. An oblique movement or course.
• n. (biology) A sloping surface in a culture medium.
• n. A pan with a sloped bottom used for holding paintbrushes.
• n. A container or surface bearing shallow sloping areas to hold watercolors.
• n. (US, obsolete) A sarcastic remark; shade, an indirect mocking insult.
• n. (slang) An opportunity, particularly to go somewhere.
• n. (Australia, slang) A crime committed for the purpose of being apprehended and transported to a major settlement…
• n. (originally US) A point of view, an angle; a bias.
• n. (US) A look, a glance.
• n. (US, pejorative) A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.
• v. To lean, tilt or incline.
• v. To bias or skew.

tilt

• v. (transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant.
• v. (jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
• v. (intransitive) To be at an angle.
• v. (transitive) To point or thrust a weapon at.
• v. (transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).
• v. To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
• v. (poker) To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck).
• v. (photography) To move a camera vertically in a controlled way.
• n. A slope or inclination. (uncountable).
• n. A jousting contest. (countable).
• n. A thrust, as with a lance.
• n. (photography) The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
• n. An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
• n. A tilt hammer.
• n. The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
• n. A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
• n. Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
• v. (transitive) To cover with a tilt, or awning.

tip

• n. The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
• n. A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility…
• n. (music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) A small piece of meat.
• n. A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
• n. A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
• v. (transitive) To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
• v. (ergative) (To cause) to knock over, make fall down or overturn.
• v. (ergative) (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
• v. (transitive, slang, dated) To drink.
• v. (transitive) To dump (refuse).
• v. (US, transitive) To pour a libation, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
• v. (transitive) To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
• n. (skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle.
• n. An act of tipping up or tilting.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse,…
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, by extension) A recycling centre.
• n. (colloquial) A very untidy place.
• n. The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips.
• v. (now rare) To hit quickly and lightly; to tap.
• n. (now rare) A light blow or tap.
• v. To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
• v. (thieves′ slang) To give, pass.
• n. A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token…
• n. A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting…
• n. A piece of advice.
• v. To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
• n. (African American Vernacular) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
• n. (African American Vernacular) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.