Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective At a slope or slant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In or into an inclined or slanting position or direction; with leaning or inclination; deflected from the perpendicular; with declivity or descent, as a hill.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
slanted orsloping - adverb slanted or sloping
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having an oblique or slanted direction
Etymologies
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Examples
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Far as the eye could see, farther and farther as they mounted the slope, were seas beyond seas of pines, now all aslope one way under the wind.
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Far as the eye could see, farther and farther as they mounted the slope, were seas beyond seas of pines, now all aslope one way under the wind.
The Father Brown Omnibus Chesterton, G. K. 2003
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Far as the eye could see, farther and farther as they mounted the slope, were seas beyond seas of pines, now all aslope one way under the wind.
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This place is supposed to lie in the confines of Shropshire aloft vpon the top of an high hill there, enuironed with a triple rampire and ditch of great depth, hauing thrée entries into it, not directlie one against an other, but aslope.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England Raphael Holinshed
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Already the sun is aslope, high still in a pale hot sky, 5
The Boundary Rider 1918
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Far as the eye could see, farther and farther as they mounted the slope, were seas beyond seas of pines, now all aslope one way under the wind.
The Innocence of Father Brown: The Honour of Israel Gow Gilbert Keith 1911
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Years ago (as it seems) on a rainy winter evening, we watched the buoys of the Solent Channel streaming past us all aslope on the strong ebb-tide, and as the Trinity Brothers began to open their eyes for an all-night watch on the south coast, we closed ours to the world behind.
The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 Filson Young 1907
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Far as the eye could see, farther and farther as they mounted the slope, were seas beyond seas of pines, now all aslope one way under the wind.
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Here on the bar of the sand-bank, steep yet aslope to the gleaming
Studies in Song Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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A wall of turbid water, aslope to the wide sky's wonder
Studies in Song Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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