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Slope vs Valley - What's the difference?

slope | valley |

As nouns the difference between slope and valley

is that slope is an area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward while valley is an elongated depression between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.

As a verb slope

is to tend steadily upward or downward.

As an adjective slope

is sloping.

As an adverb slope

is slopingly.

As a proper noun Valley is

the San Fernando Valley in southern California.

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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    • , title= 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.}}
  • (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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    References

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    valley

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An elongated depression between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-16, author= John Vidal
    • , volume=189, issue=10, page=8, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas , passage=Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys .}}
  • The area which drains into a river.
  • Any structure resembling one, e.g., the meeting point of two pitched roofs.
  • The internal angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * uncanny valley * closed-cut valley * open valley * valley board * valley piece * valley rafter

    See also

    * dale * dell * vale