sloping

sloping

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsləʊpɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsloʊpɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -əʊpɪŋ
• Hyphenation: slop‧ing

Adjective

sloping (comparative more sloping, superlative most sloping)

1. Having a slope.
   • 1993, Redgrove, Peter, “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

   a sloping roof

Derived terms

• slopingly
• slopingness

Translations

having a slope

Galician: ladeiro Maori: pīnaki (gentle), pīneki (gentle), aupaki, tāwhati, pānaki, pānaki (gentle) Plautdietsch: scheef (nds)

Verb

sloping

1. present participle of slope

Noun

sloping (plural slopings)

1. An arrangement or motion by which something slopes.

Anagrams

• Polings, polings

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Dutch

Etymology

From slopen +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsloː.pɪŋ/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: slo‧ping

Noun

sloping f (plural slopingen)

1. demolition, the act or process of demolishing