To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline, Slang To depart; to disappear suddenly, transitive verb_ To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant, verb_ be at an angle, To tend steadily upward or downward, 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, adverb_ obsolete In a sloping manner, adjective_ Slopin, noun_ 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, An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward, The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward