Slalom vs Slope - What's the difference?
slalom | slope |
(uncountable, sports) The sport of skiing in a zigzag course through gates. (Often used attributively)
(uncountable) Any similar activity on other vehicles, including canoes and water skis.
(countable, sports) A course used for the sport of slalom.
(countable, sports) A race or competition wherein participants each perform the sport of slalom.
To race in a slalom.
To move in a slalom manner
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An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
(mathematics) 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.
(mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
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).
(vulgar, highly offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
(label) To tend steadily upward or downward.
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, title= (label) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
To try to move surreptitiously.
(label) To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.
(obsolete) Sloping.
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As nouns the difference between slalom and slope
is that slalom is slalom (same meanings as in english) while slope is an area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.As a verb slope is
(label) to tend steadily upward or downward.As an adjective slope is
(obsolete) sloping.As an adverb slope is
(obsolete) slopingly.slalom
English
Noun
(wikipedia slalom)- Slalom is her strongest Olympic sport.
- The slalom gates are set closer together.
- These first two slaloms have sixty gates each.
- He has won six World Cup slaloms .
Derived terms
* slalomer * slalomist * giant slalom, GS * super giant slalom, Super G/Super-G * parallel slalom, PSL * parallel giant slalom, PSGVerb
(en verb)- Gerrard plainly had other ideas as he set off on that final, driving run into the opposition penalty area, slaloming between Kamil Glik and Grzegorz Wojtkowiak and getting his shot away as a third defender, Artur Jedzejczyk, and the goalkeeper, Wojciech Szczesny, tried to close him out.
slope
English
Noun
(en noun)- I had to climb a small slope to get to the site.
- The road has a very sharp downward slope at that point.
- The slope of this line is 0.5
- The slope of a parabola increases linearly with ''x''.
- The slope of an asphalt shingle roof system should be 4:12 or greater.
Synonyms
* (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 * Chinaman, ChinkVerb
(slop)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=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.}}
Derived terms
* ski slope * slippery slope * slopingAdjective
(en adjective)- A bank not steep, but gently slope .
- Down the slope hills.