slope

noun

• 1a surface of which one end or side is at a higher level than another; a rising or falling surface:he slithered helplessly down the slope
• a difference in level or sideways position between the two ends or sides of a thing:the roof should have a slope sufficient for proper drainage the backward slope of the chair
• (often slopes) a part of the side of a hill or mountain, especially as a place for skiing:a ten-minute cable-car ride delivers you to the slopes
• the gradient of a graph at any point.
• Electronics the transconductance of a valve, numerically equal to the gradient of one of the characteristic curves of the valve.

• 2US informal, offensive a person from Asia, especially Vietnam or elsewhere in Southeast Asia.

verb

• (of a surface or line) be inclined from a horizontal or vertical line; slant up or down:the garden sloped down to a stream the ceiling sloped
• [with object] place or arrange in a sloping position:Poole sloped his shoulders (as adjective sloped)a sloped leather writing surface