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語源

From aslope (adjective, adverb).

発音

• (General American) IPA: /sloʊp/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /sləʊp/
• 韻: -əʊp

名詞

slope (countable and uncountable, plural slopes)

1. A surface that either inclines or declines in a regular manner from the perspective of an observer.
   • Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49:

     She looked down a slope, needing to squint for the sunlight, onto a vast sprawl of houses which had grown up all together, like a well-tended crop, from the dull brown earth...

   the slope

2. An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.

   I had to climb a small slope to get to the site.

   a steep slope

3. The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.

   The road has a very sharp downward slope at that point.

4. (mathematics, of a line, with respect to a fixed coordinate system) The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points lying on the line.

   The slope of this line is 0.5

5. (mathematics, of a curve at a given point; sometimes proscribed, see Usage notes) The slope of the line tangent to the curve at the given point.

   The slope of a parabola increases linearly with x.

6. The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise to the units of horizontal length (sometimes referred to as run).

   The slope of an asphalt shingle roof system should be 4:12 or greater.

7. a concept or idea which suggests a type of oblique or accelerating progression

   The habit of lying can quickly become a slippery slope.

   • Dr. Ruth Anderson, The Cycling Mind:

     Not just confined to biking, once you loose that confidence or get knocked back either physically or mentally, it's a hard slope to climb back up...

   • Suzanne Rindell, novel, The Other Typist:

     The slope that leads toward insanity has the paradoxical distinction of being both steep and yet undetectable to the person sliding down it.

8. (vulgar, offensive, ethnic slur) An East or Southeast Asian person, especially one that is Chinese.
9. (UK, slang, dated) A hasty departure.
   • 1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:

     "I did a slope," acknowledged the clerk frankly. "I broke all the records down that passage, I bet you. You'll laugh, I dare say, and think you would have stood, but you don't know what it was like. […] "

使用する際の注意点

• In mathematical contexts, lines that are vertical (with respect to a given coordinate system) are said to either have infinite slope, or to have their slope undefined.
• While common in pre-university level mathematics and in introductory calculus, the use of slope to refer to the slope of a tangent line of a curve is proscribed in higher mathematics, where application is restricted to lines.

同意語

• (area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward): bank, embankment, gradient, hill, incline
• (degree to which a surface tends upward or downward): gradient
• (mathematics): first derivative, gradient
• (offensive: Chinese person): Chinaman, Chink

動詞

slope (third-person singular simple present slopes, present participle sloping, simple past and past participle sloped)

1. (intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.

   The road slopes sharply down at that point.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough.

   • 1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 244:

     St. Lawrence Station is very prettily situated, high cliffs on the left, and the lush vegetation of the Undercliff sloping down to the sea on the right.

2. (transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.

   to slope the ground in a garden;   to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment

3. (UK, colloquial, usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously.

   I sloped in through the back door, hoping my boss wouldn't see me.

   • 2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     She watched him disappear out of sight, before sloping back to her room.

4. (military) To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.

   The order was given to "slope arms".

派生語

形容詞

slope (comparative more slope, superlative most slope)

1. (obsolete) Sloping.
   • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Gardens”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

     A bank not steep, but gently slope.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Down the slope hills.

副詞

slope (comparative more slope, superlative most slope)

1. (obsolete) slopingly
   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     So promis'd he; and Uriel to his charge
     Return'd on that bright beam , whose point now rais'd ,
     Bore him slope downward to the sun

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