incline

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To deviate from the horizontal or vertical; slant.
2. v. To be disposed to a certain preference, opinion, or course of action.
3. v. To lower or bend the head or body, as in a nod or bow.
4. v. To cause to lean, slant, or slope.
5. v. To influence to have a certain tendency; dispose: Recent events incline us to distrust all politicians.
6. v. To bend or lower in a nod or bow: inclined her head in acquiescence.
7. n. An inclined surface; a slope or gradient.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To bend down; lean; turn obliquely from or toward a given direction or position; deviate from a line or course; tend: as, the column inclines from the perpendicular.
2. To bow; bend the head or the body, especially as a mark of courtesy or respect.
3. To have a mental bent or tendency; be disposed; tend, as toward an opinion, a course of action, etc.
4. To tend, in a physical sense; approximate.
5. In marching, to gain ground to the flank, as well as to the front.
6. To bend down; cause to lean; give a leaning to; cause to deviate from or toward a given line, position, or direction; direct.
7. To bend (the body), as in an act of reverence or civility; cause to stoop or bow.
8. To give a tendency or propension to; turn; dispose.
9. n. An inclination; a bow.
10. n. An inclined plane; an ascent or a descent, as in a road or a railway;a slope.
11. n. A shaft or mine-opening having considerable inclination. The words shaft, incline, and level express all possible conditions of a mine-opening in respect to position with reference to the horizontal plane. If the incline is worked “to the rise,” the material mined is transported downward by some self-acting arrangement; if “to the deep,” it is raised by a steam or other engine.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend
2. v. Fig.: To lean or tend, in an intellectual or moral sense; to favor an opinion, a course of conduct, or a person; to have a propensity or inclination; to be disposed.
3. v. To bow; to incline the head.
4. v. To cause to deviate from a line, position, or direction; to give a leaning, bend, or slope to
5. v. To impart a tendency or propensity to, as to the will or affections; to turn; to dispose; to influence.
6. v. To bend; to cause to stoop or bow.
7. n. An inclined plane; an ascent or descent; a grade or gradient; a slope.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief
2. v. be at an angle
3. v. bend or turn (one's ear) towards a speaker in order to listen well
4. n. an elevated geological formation
5. v. have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
6. v. lower or bend (the head or upper body), as in a nod or bow
7. v. feel favorably disposed or willing
8. n. an inclined surface connecting two levels