Word Type
Slope can be a verb or a noun.
slope used as a verb:
- To tend steadily upward or downward.
"The road slopes sharply down at that point." - To try to move surreptitiously.
"I sloped in through the back door, hoping my boss wouldn't see me." - 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.""
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
slope used as a noun:
- An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
"I had to climb a small slope to get to the site." - The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
"The road has a very sharp downward slope at that point." - The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if the line is horizontal, undefined if it is vertical.
"The slope of this line is 0.5" - The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
"The slope of a parabola increases linearly with x." - 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). For English units of measurement, when dimensions are given in inches, slope may be expressed as a ratio of rise to run, such as 4:12 or an an angle.
"The slope of an asphalt shingle roof system should be 4:12 or greater." - A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is slope?
- Verb usage: The road slopes sharply down at that point.
- Verb usage: I sloped in through the back door, hoping my boss wouldn't see me.
- Verb usage: The order was given to "slope arms."
- Noun usage: I had to climb a small slope to get to the site.
- Noun usage: The road has a very sharp downward slope at that point.
- Noun usage: The slope of this line is 0.5
- Noun usage: The slope of a parabola increases linearly with x.
- Noun usage: The slope of an asphalt shingle roof system should be 4:12 or greater.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of slope are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of slope, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
