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say it: slohp
slope is a noun and verb meaning "an elevated geological formation". It is pronounced /ˈsloʊp/ — slohp. It carries 3 recorded senses.
an elevated geological formation
“he climbed the steep slope”
“the house was built on the side of a mountain”
the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal
“a five-degree gradient”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for slope come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.