[slope] adj [ME slope, adv., obliquely] (1502): that slants: sloping--often used in combination "slope-sided"
[2]slope vb sloped ; slop.ing vi (1591) 1: to take an oblique course
2: to lie or fall in a slant: incline
3: go, travel "~s off into the night --Wolcott Gibbs" ~ vt: to cause to incline or slant -- slop.er n [3]slope n (ca. 1611) 1: upward or downward slant or inclination or degree of slant
2: ground that forms a natural or artificial incline
3: the part of a continent draining to a particular ocean "Alaska's North Slope"
4. a: the tangent of the angle made by a straight line with the x-axis b: the slope of the line tangent to a plane curve at a point