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Sloping vs Downward - What's the difference?

sloping | downward |

As adjectives the difference between sloping and downward

is that sloping is having a slope while downward is moving or sloping down.

As a verb sloping

is .

As a noun sloping

is an arrangement or motion by which something slopes.

As a adverb downward is

toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.

sloping

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a slope.
  • :a sloping roof

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An arrangement or motion by which something slopes.

    • downward

    English

    Adverb

    (en-adv) (or downwards )
  • Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.
    • His position in society moved ever downward .
  • * Drayton
    • Their heads they downward bent.
  • * Shakespeare
    • A ring the county wears, / That downward hath descended in his house, / From son to son, some four or five descents.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • moving or sloping down
    • He spoke with a downward glance.

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