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Slopping vs Sloping - What's the difference?

slopping | sloping |

As verbs the difference between slopping and sloping

is that slopping is present participle of lang=en while sloping is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between slopping and sloping

is that slopping is liquid that has been slopped while sloping is an arrangement or motion by which something slopes.

As an adjective sloping is

having a slope.

slopping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Liquid that has been slopped.
  • * 1860 , Horace Marryat, A residence in Jutland, the Danish Isles, and Copenhagen
    • were still extensive lakes, sloppings of the great deluge, not yet dried up in time to pass away from the evaporation of the sun's rays and the labour of mankind.
  • * (Arthur Conan Doyle)
    • It is only fair to say that they could have been removed by hand in the dark, but on examining the table, I was unable to see any of those sloppings of water which might be expected to follow such an operation.

    sloping

    English

    Adjective

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

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

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