sloping
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsləʊpɪŋ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsloʊpɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊpɪŋ
- Hyphenation: slop‧ing
Adjective[edit]
sloping (comparative more sloping, superlative most sloping)
- 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
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
having a slope
Verb[edit]
sloping
- present participle and gerund of slope
Noun[edit]
sloping (plural slopings)
- An arrangement or motion by which something slopes.
Anagrams[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sloping f (plural slopingen)
- demolition, the act or process of demolishing
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