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Slope vs Extraction - What's the difference?

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In military terms the difference between slope and extraction

is that slope is to hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder while extraction is an act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.

As nouns the difference between slope and extraction

is that slope is an area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward while extraction is an act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.

As a verb slope

is to tend steadily upward or downward.

As an adjective slope

is sloping.

As an adverb slope

is slopingly.

slope

English

Noun

(en 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.
  • (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.
  • The slope of this line is 0.5
  • (mathematics) 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).
  • The slope of an asphalt shingle roof system should be 4:12 or greater.
  • (vulgar, highly offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
  • 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, Chink

    Verb

    (slop)
  • (label) To tend steadily upward or downward.
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  • (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.
  • Derived terms

    * ski slope * slippery slope * sloping

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Sloping.
  • * (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
  • A bank not steep, but gently slope .
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • Down the slope hills.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (obsolete) slopingly
  • (Milton)

    Anagrams

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    extraction

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
  • A person's origin or ancestry.
  • Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
  • * Milton
  • They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
  • (military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
  • (dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.
  • Synonyms

    * descent, lineage