sloping
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- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsləʊpɪŋ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsloʊpɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊpɪŋ
- Hyphenation: slop‧ing
Adjective edit
sloping (comparative more sloping, superlative most sloping)
- Having a slope.
- a sloping roof
- 1993, Peter Redgrove, “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
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having a slope
Verb edit
sloping
- present participle and gerund of slope
Noun edit
sloping (plural slopings)
- An arrangement or motion by which something slopes.
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sloping f (plural slopingen)
- demolition, the act or process of demolishing