Fine Dictionary

Slopeness

Construction of the road with a bridge along a slope. Separate photo at the front of the album with 107 photos about the construction of the Gajoweg in North Sumatra between Bireuen and Takinguen between 1903-1914.
Construction of the road with a bridge along a slope. Separate photo at the front of the album with 107 photos about the construction of the Gajoweg in North Sumatra between Bireuen and Takinguen between 1903-1914.
Illustrations
Construction of the road with bend and bridge through sloping terrain. Tipped-in photo in an album with 87 photos about the construction of the Gajoweg in North Sumatra between Bireuen and Takinguen between 1903-1914.
Construction of the road with bend and bridge through sloping terrain. Tipped-in photo in an album with 87 photos about the construction of the Gajoweg in North Sumatra between Bireuen and Takinguen between 1903-1914.
Construction of the road along the northern slope of Woih ni Tanggo Besi. There are fossils in the hillside. Tipped-in photo in an album with 107 photos about the construction of the Gajoweg in North Sumatra between Bireuen and Takinguen between 1903-1914.
Construction of the road along the northern slope of Woih ni Tanggo Besi. There are fossils in the hillside. Tipped-in photo in an album with 107 photos about the construction of the Gajoweg in North Sumatra between Bireuen and Takinguen between 1903-1914.
Construction of the road along the southern slope at Woih ni Tanggo Besi. There are fossils in the hillside. Tipped-in photo in an album with 107 photos about the construction of the Gajoweg in North Sumatra between Bireuen and Takinguen between 1903-1914.
Construction of the road along the southern slope at Woih ni Tanggo Besi. There are fossils in the hillside. Tipped-in photo in an album with 107 photos about the construction of the Gajoweg in North Sumatra between Bireuen and Takinguen between 1903-1914.
Construction of the road with a bridge along a slope. Tipped-in photo in an album with 87 photos about the construction of the Gajoweg in North Sumatra between Bireuen and Takinguen between 1903-1914.
Construction of the road with a bridge along a slope. Tipped-in photo in an album with 87 photos about the construction of the Gajoweg in North Sumatra between Bireuen and Takinguen between 1903-1914.
A narrow, sloping wooden bridge runs over a stream with a waterfall. A shepherd walks across the bridge with his flock and a woman with goods on her head. There is a path on the right and the letter B can be seen at the top right.
A narrow, sloping wooden bridge runs over a stream with a waterfall. A shepherd walks across the bridge with his flock and a woman with goods on her head. There is a path on the right and the letter B can be seen at the top right.
On sloping ground Christ goes to the right with bent knees, on the left shoulder carrying the cross, the trunk of which is held up with both arms by Simon of Cyrene. Veronica kneels opposite him, holding the cloth in her right hand, which Christ gives her back. Behind Veronica a soldier's armor with another part of a cord in his right hand, and a man, grimacing with both hands in his mouth, sticking out his tongue. On the far left a woman with a child on her arm, a spectator placed frontally, an executioner holding Christ by the hair and raising his right fist, and a man in a cap blowing a shawm. Under the sweatcloth, a barking mangy dog runs to the right. Christ in long robes wears a cord around the waist with a block of nails at the hanging end. Veronica with braid has a turban over a cap, a cloth of which runs under the chin .; also puff sleeves, pleated skirt and coat. The armored soldier wears a helmet with a folded visor and a belt over the shoulders; the other a leather helmet, knitted undergarment, over which a two-part skirt, the front panel of which is suspended with fringe between the belt around his waist, and high boots; the third, behind Christ, a breastplate over chain mail and a cap. Simon of Cyrene wears a turban over a Jew's hat, a jacket with puff sleeves, a skirt open to the side and a dagger (?) On a belt; the herald's high cap, overcoat with turned-up sleeves; the spectator a hat, a kind of cape and a slanting belt with bells (?); the woman with child a braid, turban and child cloth like Veronica, shoulder collar and cloak, the front and back of which are held together by an agrafe.
On sloping ground Christ goes to the right with bent knees, on the left shoulder carrying the cross, the trunk of which is held up with both arms by Simon of Cyrene. Veronica kneels opposite him, holding the cloth in her right hand, which Christ gives her back. Behind Veronica a soldier's armor with another part of a cord in his right hand, and a man, grimacing with both hands in his mouth, sticking out his tongue. On the far left a woman with a child on her arm, a spectator placed frontally, an executioner holding Christ by the hair and raising his right fist, and a man in a cap blowing a shawm. Under the sweatcloth, a barking mangy dog runs to the right. Christ in long robes wears a cord around the waist with a block of nails at the hanging end. Veronica with braid has a turban over a cap, a cloth of which runs under the chin .; also puff sleeves, pleated skirt and coat. The armored soldier wears a helmet with a folded visor and a belt over the shoulders; the other a leather helmet, knitted undergarment, over which a two-part skirt, the front panel of which is suspended with fringe between the belt around his waist, and high boots; the third, behind Christ, a breastplate over chain mail and a cap. Simon of Cyrene wears a turban over a Jew's hat, a jacket with puff sleeves, a skirt open to the side and a dagger (?) On a belt; the herald's high cap, overcoat with turned-up sleeves; the spectator a hat, a kind of cape and a slanting belt with bells (?); the woman with child a braid, turban and child cloth like Veronica, shoulder collar and cloak, the front and back of which are held together by an agrafe.
Road construction along the southern slope of Woih ni Enang. Tipped-in photo in an album with 87 photos about the construction of the Gajoweg in North Sumatra between Bireuen and Takinguen between 1903-1914.
Road along the Woih ni Enang
Sloping pollard willow on the edge of a meadow.
The willow
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Slopeness
    State of being slope.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) slopeness
    Declivity; obliquity; slant.
Quotations
The safest road to hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
C. S. Lewis
George F. Will
All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.
George F. Will
Idioms

Slippery slope - A slippery slope is where a measure would lead to further worse measures.

Usage in the news

Shortly thereafter his parents moved to Grand Junction, the largest town on Colorado's western slope. pbs.org

Doing some "Van Dammage" on the snowy slopes of the Rocky Mountains. 963theblaze.com

Watch your step on the slippery slope. destinationcrm.com

Duane "Dog" Chapman seeking fugitives on Western Slope. summitdaily.com

I was South Slope fiend 's first victim. brooklynpaper.com

A Carroll Gardens woman claims that she was the South Slope Sex Fiend 's first victim — but cops fumbled her case, allowing the creep to terrorize other neighborhoods more than a year later. brooklynpaper.com

New details about Slope sex fiend 's latest attack. brooklynpaper.com

On Monday, police officers interview the sister of the South Slope Sex Fiend 's latest victim, who was attacked on Sunday night on Vanderbilt Street in Windsor Terrace. brooklynpaper.com

Birds don't flap to run faster on level ground or on very gentle slopes. cnn.com

There has not been much snow so far this year, certainly not enough to ski, but the slopes and the lifts of Mount Hermon were full over the Hanukkah break. nytimes.com

The event will feature an all day bike flea market, a party and film screenings, all taking place at 336 3rd Street in Park Slope. queensledger.com

Bike flea market coming to Slope. brooklynpaper.com

Park Slope pianist Angela Jia Kim releases debut CD, 'Dances and Fantasies. brooklynpaper.com

Western Slope, central-northern mountains created most jobs. denverpost.com

Paterson said that by targeting "really, private companies that are assumed to have a significant public interest" would lead down a slippery slope. blog.timesunion.com

Usage in scientific papers

Bottom panel: Distribution of rest-frame UV slopes of the massselected sample; colors as in the middle panel; the solid cyan line represents the distribution of UV slopes of the H - K selected sample at z ∼ 3.7 of Brammer & van Dokkum (2007).
The Most Massive Galaxies at 3.0<z<4.0 in the NEWFIRM Medium-Band Survey: Properties and Improved Constraints on the Stellar Mass Function

Intriguingly enough, the distribution of UV slopes of the mass-selected sample at 3.0 ≤ z < 4.0 is very different from the distributions of UV slopes of UV-selected galaxies at z > 2.5 as well as the H - K galaxies at z ∼ 3.7 so far discovered, which show distributions of β peaked at β < -1.6.
The Most Massive Galaxies at 3.0<z<4.0 in the NEWFIRM Medium-Band Survey: Properties and Improved Constraints on the Stellar Mass Function

For L > 0 those are the first L spin-down states (positive slope), while for L < 0 the first L spin-up states (negative slope).
Qubit-oscillator system under ultrastrong coupling and extreme driving

The solid lines represent a slope 2 and the dotted line a slope 1 in a log-log scale.
The random walk of a low-Reynolds-number swimmer

The slope of that part of the magnetization curve increases if K → 1/2, however, at the same time its height decreases and vanishes finally at K = 1/2, where the magnetization approaches the saturation continuously with an infinite slope, see Fig. 3a.
Exact solution of a spin-1/2 $XX$ chain with three-site interactions in a random transverse field: Influence of randomness on quantum phase transition

Usage in literature

The slopes of the wadi were too steep for good shooting straight down the slope. "With the British Army in The Holy Land" by Henry Osmond Lock

Fifty yards down the slope, which was bare of cover, he saw the two Indians. "Fort Amity" by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Our line on this slope covers the village of Hamel, which lies just behind the line, along the road and on the hill-slopes above it. "The Old Front Line" by John Masefield

I dodged again, around a cedar, and ran in a new direction, up a slope, through grass and just a sprinkling of trees. "Pluck on the Long Trail" by Edwin L. Sabin

On the south slope of the mesa are indications of walls, too vaguely defined to admit of the determination of their direction. "Eighth Annual Report" by Various

But it sloped up to within a few feet of the top of that gap, more than one landslide having contributed to its fashioning. "Storm Over Warlock" by Andre Norton

Beside me, sloped upward at an apparently increasing angle a tremendous glossy plane. "The Girl in the Golden Atom" by Raymond King Cummings

The mountain slope had been steadily growing steeper beneath them, and they had not yet reached the bench. "The Gold Trail" by Harold Bindloss

They had not gone twenty paces further up when the sloping chasm terminated. "The Lone Ranche" by Captain Mayne Reid

From the top of one hill I could see my rhino half a mile away on the slope of another. "In Africa" by John T. McCutcheon

Usage in poetry
The flowery glens and shady slopes
Are hateful to his eyes;
Beyond the heights, beyond the storms,
The land of promise lies.
"The Morning Hills" by Maurice Thompson Author object (489)
I found it on a mountain slope,
The sunlight on its face;
It caught from clouds a smile of hope
That brightened all the place.
"Sorrow And The Flowers" by Abram Joseph Ryan Author object (8)
The snows crept down the mountain,
The flowers crept up the slope,
Till they seemed to meet and mingle,
Like human fear and hope.
"Lake Como" by Abram Joseph Ryan Author object (8)
Fringed with gold their mantles flow
On the slopes of westering knolls;
In the wind they whisper low
Of the Sunset Land of Souls.
"The Vanishers" by John Greenleaf Whittier Author object (377)
But lo! a tall and stately youth
Ascends the grassy slope;
His bright dark eyes are glancing round,
His heart beats high with hope.
"Alexander And Zenobia" by Anne Bronte Author object (43)
So now when up the year's bright slope
A call comes ringing o'er and o'er,
I fling the portal wide, in hope
'Tis April at the door.
"The Visitor" by Clinton Scollard Author object (120)