Incline

Definition: Incline

Incline

Noun

1. An elevated geological formation; "he climbed the steep slope"; "the house was built on the side of the mountain".

2. An inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another.

Verb

1. Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence".

2. Bend or turn (one's ear) towards a speaker in order to listen well; "He inclined his ear to the wise old man".

3. Lower or bend (the head or upper body), as in a nod or bow; "She inclined her head to the student".

4. Be at an angle; "The terrain sloped down".

5. Make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief; "Their language inclines us to believe them".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "incline" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Incline \In*cline"\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Inclined; Inclining.]. (references)

Mining

Transportation

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Synonyms: Incline

Attention

Verb: be attentive; Adjective: attend, advert to, observe, look, see, view, remark, notice, regard, take notice, mark; give attention to, pay attention to, pay heed to, give heed to; incline an ear to, lend an ear to; trouble one's head about; give a thought to, animadvert to; occupy oneself with; contemplate; (think of); look at, look to, look after, look into, look over; see to; turn the mind to, bend the mind to, apply the mind to, direct the mind to, give the mind to, turn the eye to, bend the eye to, apply the eye to, direct the eye to, give the eye to, turn the attention to, bend the attention to, apply the attention to, direct the attention to, give the attention to; have an eye to, have in one's eye; bear in mind; take into account, take into consideration; keep in sight, keep in view; have regard to, heed, mind, take cognizance of entertain, recognize; make note of, take note of; note.

Direction

Verb: tend towards, bend towards, point towards; conduct to, go to; point to, point at; bend, trend, verge, incline, dip, determine.

Motive

Influence, weigh with, bias, sway, incline, dispose, predispose, turn the scale, inoculate; lead by the nose; have influence with, have influence over, have influence upon, exercise influence with, exercise influence over, exercise influence upon; go round, come round one; turn the head, magnetize; lobby.

Straightness

Verb: be straight; Adjective: have no turning; not incline to either side, not bend to either side, not turn to either side, not deviate to either side; go straight; steer for; (directions).

Tendency

Verb: tend, contribute, conduce, lead, dispose, incline, verge, bend to, trend, affect, carry, redound to, bid fair to, gravitate towards; promote; (aid).

Willingness

Verb: be willing; Adjective: incline, lean to, mind, propend; had as lief; lend a willing ear, give a willing ear, turn a willing ear; have a half a mind to, have a great mind to; hold to, cling to; desire.

Crosswords: Incline

French (inclines), Italian (affected, disposed, inclined, prone), Portuguese (stoop).

From Incline R.R. American Falls (1896)

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Books

• Angels Flight: A History of Bunker Hill's Incline Railway (reference)

• Incline Our Hearts (reference)

• Incline Railways of Los Angeles and Southern California (reference)

• Optics in computing : March 18-21, 1997, Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe, Incline Village, Nevada (reference)

• Quantum Optoelectronics: March 19-21, 1997, Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe, Incline Village, Nevada (Postconference) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Along the Incline Plane [EP] (reference)

• Burn the Incline (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Menhaden steamer discharging its catch at the oil and guano factory Incline railway to carry fish to cooking tanks From a sketch by Capt. B. F. Conklin. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Menhaden oil and guano factory at Milford, Conn. Unloading fish at the wharf Incline railway to carry fish to cooking tanks on upper floor of factory Oil tanks and storage sheds in foreground. Platform for drying scrap in rear Platform connected with factory building by elevated railway From a photograph. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Outrigger canoe. To launch, the outrigger would be raised allowing the canoe to slide down the incline. Credit: Small World.

AML, Bat grate on incline shaft at Kaaba-Texas Mine, Spokane District, Washington. Credit: John Craig.

Boulder dam, between Arizona and Nevada. Sept. 1941. A view of the Arizona spillway with the downstream drum gates lowered a short distance from a point above the portal of the incline tunnel. Credit: Library of Congress.

The cable incline up Lookout Mt. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mount Adams Incline, Cincinnati, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mt. Lowe Railway, cable incline. Credit: Library of Congress.

Chattanooga, Tennessee (vicinity). The suburbs seen at night from the "incline railway" on Lookout Mountain. Credit: Library of Congress.

Reversing station or switchback on the Bhor Ghat incline of the Great Indian Peninsula railway, near Bombay. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

He drove down a steep dirt incline and parked on the edge of the encampment

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

While some earlier studies, such as investigations of fatiguing illness in Incline Village, Nev., and Punta Gorda, Fla., have been cited as evidence for CFS acting as a contagious illness, they did not rigorously document the occurrence of person-to-person transmission. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "incline": incline bench press ♦ incline one's ear to smb. ♦ incline to ♦ Incline Village ♦ left incline ♦ right incline. Additional references.

Ending with "incline": steep-incline.

Albanian

ul (abase, cast down, cheapen, couch, decline, depress, disparage, drop, embus, furl, humble, keep down, knock off, land, lower, modulate, pull down, reduce, scale down, seat, sink, strike, subdue, subside, throw, turn down, untuck), tatëpjetë (bevel, decline, declivity, descent, dip, down, downhill, downward, downwards, ramp, slant, slope), shpat (bank, descent, side, slope), prirem (heel, lean, list, tend, trend), pjerrësi (cocking, declination, declivity, gradient, incidence, inclination, knee, pitch, ramp, recliner, scarp, set, shearing, site, slant, slope, splay, talus, tilt, trim), pjerr (skew, tilt), përkul (bend, crook, curve, decline, double, flex, hunch, inflect, overarch, warp, weigh down), jam i prirur të, fal (amnesty, condone, excuse, forgive, give, give away, lend, pardon, pray, remit, set, switch off), anoj (bank, careen, lean, slope, solder, tilt). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مال الى, ‏مال (assets, be inclined, bend, bent, cant, capital, chattel, coins, estate, feel sympathy for, funds, gold, lean, like, pelf, possessions, property, purse, shekels, skew, slant, slope, sympathize with, tilt, tip), ‏لوى (bend, bent, contort, curl, flex, screw, turn, twist, wrench, wring, writhe, wry), ‏قنع (bring, get smb. to do smth., hide, induce, mask, move, persuade, push through, sell, win over), ‏حدور مستوى مائل, ‏حدر, ‏إنحنى (bend, bend over, bent, bow, crouch, curve, dip, double up, droop, duck, hunch, low bow, recline, sag, stoop, tip), ‏إنحرف (astrict, deflect, depart, deviate, deviate from, diverge, divert, drift, jibe, jump, nose, pervert, sidetrack, skew, slew, slue, squint, stray, swerve, swing, turn, veer), ‏إنحدر (batter, bevel away, decline, descend, devolve, dip, drop, pitch, run, shelve, slant, slope). (various references)

Bulgarian 

склонен съм (lean), склон (ascent, decline, declivity, descent, downhill, drop, flank, hang, hanging, hillside, inclination, pitch, pitching, ramp, side, slant, slope, talus, versant), клоня (converge, lean, squint, sway, trend), наклонявам (cant, depress, dip, lean, list, slant, slope, tip), наклоненост (inclination, obliquity, slope), наклонена плоскост (glide, ramp, slide), наклон (batter, bevel, bias, declension, declivity, dip, fall, grade, gradient, incidence, inclination, inflection, inflexion, lean, leaning, low-grade, rake, ramp, rise, skew, slant, slope, throw, tilt, versant), навеждам (bow, droop, drop, hang, lean, lour, lower, set, tilt, vail), проявявам склонност, проявявам тенденция, предразположен съм, предразполагам (bias, dispose, ingratiate, placate, predispose, prepossess), полегатост (cant, obliquity, pitch, slant, slope, versant), инклинация (inclination). (various references)

Chinese 

斜面 (Bevel, Chamfer), 傾斜 (lean, slant, slope, tilt). (various references)

Czech

svažovat se (decline, descend, dip, shelve, slant, slope down), sklonit se (bow, stoop), naklonit (attach, tilt), chýlit se. (various references)

Danish

bøje (be inclined, bend, buoy). (various references)

Dutch

neigen (be inclined, bend, have a tendency, tilt). (various references)

Esperanto

inklini (be inclined), klini (bend, tilt). (various references)

Faeroese

hella (bend, tilt), hava lyndi til (be inclined), boyggja (bend, tilt), benda (bend, tilt). (various references)

Farsi 

متمایل کردن , متمایل شدن , مستعدشدن , کج کردن (Bend, Contort, Crook, Deflect, Distort, Hook, Inflect, List, Slant, Strain, Tilt, Top), سرازیرکردن (Decant, Recline, Tip), خم کردن (Bend, Crank, Crook, Crump, Flex, Hunch, Limber, Reeve, Wry), شیب دادن (Steep), شیب (Declivity, Dip, Gradient, Inclination, Pendant, Rake, Slant, Slope, Tilt). (various references)

Finnish

kallistaa (bend, increase the price, lean, raise, tilt). (various references)

French

incliner (be inclined), inclinaison (angle of inclination, inclination, tip inclination). (various references)

German

neigen (bend, bow, bow down, tend, tilt, tilt over, tip, tipping, trend), sich neigen (bend, bow, cant, draw to an end, heel, lean, lean over, list, rake, slant, slope, slope down, tilt, tilt over, tilt up, tip, tip up, to incline). (various references)

Greek 

κλίνω (cant, careen, conjugate, decline, hang up, heel, inflect, lean, list, shelve, slant, slope, tend, tilt, tip, trend, verge), ρέπω (propend, tend, trend, verge), προσκλίνω (tilt), τείνω (extend, tend, trend, verge), ορεινός σιδηρόδρομος. (various references)

Hebrew 

מדרון (declivity, gradient, slant, slope), לכפוף (bend, bow down, compel, curve, stoop, subject), להשתופף (droop), להרכין (bend, bow, droop, stoop, tilt), לגחון (bend over, lean, stoop), לגחות (bend, lean), לרכון (bend, lean), לנטות (deviate, dispose, extend, fancy, lean, stretch, tend, tip, trend, turn aside), שפיה, שפוי (bare, slope, smooth, tilt), שפוע (bank, bevel, cant, gradient, obliqueness, rake, rise, slant, slope, splay, tilt, tip). (various references)

Hungarian

lejtõ (gradient, inclination, lean, prone, side, slant, slope, slope lift), lejtősség (declension, gradient, inclination, rake, slope), késztet (compel, force his hand, led, made, to flush, to incline, to lead, to make, to motivate), hajlik (bend, bent, bow, flex, to bend, to cant, to curve, to flex, to rake, to tend, to tilt), hajlás (bend, camber, flexion, hang, lean, ply, rise, splay, sweep, synclinal, talus, tilt). (various references)

Indonesian

pendakian (ascent, climbing, defile), dakian (slope). (various references)

Italian

piano inclinato (chute). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

勾配 (grade, gradient, pitch, slope), 傾 (lean). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

こうばい (buy, grade, gradient, pitch, public auction, public sale, purchase, red-blossomed plum tree, slope), けい (about, approximately, beheading, group, knight, lean, light, lineage, lord, penalty, plan, punishment, sentence, state minister, strong, system, ten quadrillion, thorn, thousand billion, time, toward, whip). (various references)

Manx

faaney (batter, inclination, rake, ski-run, slant), cleayney (attract, bank, circumvent, decoy, deviate, dispose, distort, distortion, diversion, divert, draw off, induce, influence, inveigle, list, penchant, persuasion, perversion, predilection, predispose, recede, seduce, stoop, tend, tend as garden, trend, vamp, veer), ard (big, compass point, direction, district, fell, height, high, high place, loud, pole, region, tall, towering). (various references)

Norwegian

skråning, skråne, helle (flagstone, lean). (various references)

Pig Latin

inclineay.(various references)

Portuguese

inclinar (cant, deflect, droop, fall, prepossess, recline, slanting, slope, tilt, tip), inclina��o (hang, inclination), trav�s, rampa (acclivity, agger, ascent, bank, hillside, ramp, rise, runway, slope, talus, uprise), predispor (bias, predispose, prepossess), plano inclinado (skid, slant, slide), pendor (dip, inclination, pitch, plunge, rake, strike), obliquidade (lay, obliquity, slant), estarinclinadoa, dispor (afford, assort, bunch, collocate, dispose, fix up, lay out, line up, make, ordain, order, park, post, prepare, put right), declive (abruptness, acclivity, cant, climbdown, declination, declivity, declivous, descent, dip, downhill, gradient, hang, hillside, lay, ramp, side, slant, slanting, slide, slope, sloping, tilt, weathering), curvar (bend, bow, buckle, crook, deflect, dip, round), chaminé (chimney, fireplace, funnel, hearth, lamp-chimney, smokestack), caminho-de-ferro de montanha, aclive (acclivitous, acclivity, slope). (various references)

Romanian

apleca (be inclined, bend, bow, enslave, hang down, humiliate, lower, slope, stoop, submit, surrender, tilt, tilt over), înclina (be inclined, bend, bias, bow, incline to, lean against, prejudice, recline, shelve, slant, slope, splay, stoop, tilt, yield). (various references)

Russian 

уклон (bias, deviation, dip, downgrade, draft, draught, fall, grade, gradient, plane, ply, ramp, slant, slope, taper), скат (chute, gradient, ramp, skat, slope, staple), склонять (decline, dispose, vail), склонить (dispose, drive at), располагать (arrange, be in possession of, collocate, dispose, housed, siting, situate, situates, situating), клонить (bend), отклоняться (deflect, depart, deviate, digress, diverge, sheered, sheering, sheers, trend, turn aside, wander), наклоняться (bend, bend over, decline, dip, lean, nod, stoop, tilt, tip), наклонять (bend, cant, decline, droop, lean, slants, slope, stoop, tilt, tilting, tip, vail), наклонная шахта, наклон (bevel, bias, cant, declination, gradient, incidence, inclination, lean, nutation, pitch, rake, slope, slopping, tilt), бремсберг (headway, run, slope). (various references)

Scottish

rùnaich (purpose, wish), lùb (bend, consent, humble, loop, noose, snare, stoop, yield), aom (bend, droop, yield). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

inklinirati, nagnuti (bank, cant, heel, lean, slant, slope, tilt, tip), naginjati (gravitate, tend), nagibati se (hade, tilt), nagib (bank, bevel, bias, camber, cant, descent, escarp, grade, gradient, heel, inclination, lean, list, offset, pitch, slant, slope, tilt, tip, weathering). (various references)

Spanish

inclinar (bend, bend down, bow, bow to, bow under, diffract, dispose, hang, induce, inflect, lean, lean forward, list, nod, slant, slope, stoop down, tilt, tip up). (various references)

Swedish

lutning (declivity, dip, downgrade, grade, gradient, inclination, Leach, lean, pitch, rake, slant, stoop, tilt), luta (dip, lean, lute, prop, sag, shelve, slant, stoop, tilt, verge), böja (bend, bow, buckle, camber, crook, curve, decline, deflect, flex, incurve, inflect, work, yield). (various references)

Turkish

meyletmek (be inclined, lean, oblique, verge, verge on), baş eğerek selâmlamak, eğilimi olmak (be disposed to, slant, squint, sway, tend), eğilmek (bend, bow, buckle, cant over, curve, dip, double, double up, droop, duck, fall down, hang, hang over, lean, sag, spring, stoop, strain, tilt, tip, warp, yield), eğim (bevel, cant, declination, dip, elevation, fall, grade, gradient, inclination, my better half, obliquity, pitch, slant, slope, tilt, tip), eğim yapmak (dip, slope), eğimli yüzey (escarpment, glacis), çalmak (abstract, adopt, bag, beat, beat out, blow, chime, cop, crib, defalcate, filch, finger, grind, grind out, heist, hijack, hoist, hook, hoot, jangle, jingle, knelt, knock, knock off, lift, make off with, mooch, nobble, peal, pilfer, pinch, play, plunder, rap, render, ring, rustle, scrounge, sneak, snitch, sound, steal, strike, swipe, tend, thieve, toll, twang, verge, verge into, verge on, walk away with, walk off with, whip), meyil (affection, aptitude, bias, cant, declivity, gradient, gravitation, inclination, lean, leaning, liking, obliquity, penchant, proclivity, proneness, propensity, slant, slope, talus, tendency, tide, tilt, trend), yokuş (acclivity, ascent, bank, declination, descent, dip, downgrade, glacis, Hill, pitch, raise, ramp, slope, upgrade), neden olmak (beget, bring, bring about, bring along, call forth, cause, conduce, cost, create, determine, do, draw on, encompass, engender, excite, give rise to, invite, originate, procure, produce, provoke, raise, touch off, trigger), sürüklemek (blow away, drag, drag along, drift, eat at, eat away, Hale, lug, make leeway, pluck, schlep, schlepp, sweep, sweep before one, trail, train, tug, waft, wash away, wash off), yönlendirmek (canalize, conduct, direct, divert, guide, head, lead, Orient, orientate, parlay, process, prompt, shape, shoo, stage, steer, sway), yatırmak (bed, credit, deposit, embark, fund, instate, invest, lay down, lay low, pay into, place, put to bed, put to sleep, repose, repose on, shelter, sink, subscribe), yatkın olmak (tend), yatmak (bang, be couched, couch, go to bed, go to sleep, have a screw, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip, kip down, lay, lay oneself down, lie, lie down, lie up, recline, repose, repose oneself, rest, sleep with, turn in), eğmek (bend, bow, buckle, cant, contort, curve, decline, droop, flex, incurve, inflect, ply, slant, spring, stoop, sway, tilt, warp). (various references)

Turkmen 

yrmak, яapgyt (slope). (various references)

Ukrainian

відхилятися (bear off, deflect, deviate, diverge, lapse, run off, skew, stray, swerve, trend, turn, turn aside), нахиляти (cant, droop, lean, slant, slope, stoop, tilt, tip, tip up), нахил (bend, bent, cant, declination, droop, hang, inclination, lurch, notion, obliqueness, obliquity, palate, ply, proclivity, propensity, slope, tilt, tip), приваблювати (appeal, attract, captivate, commend, court, fetch, lure, magnetize, pull, take, tempt). (various references)

Vietnamese 

mặt nghiêng chỗ dốc, con đường dốc. (various references)

Welsh

tueddu (tend, trend), gogwyddo (lean, slope). (various references)

gam. (various references)

adclinavit, clivum, cuba, cubant, cubas, cubat, cubate, cubavit, cubes, cubiti, cubitis, cubito, cubitorum, cubitos, cubitu, cubitum, cubitus, euergetis, inclina, inclinabit, inclinabitur, inclinabo, inclinabuntur, inclinans, inclinaretur, inclinasset, inclinasti, inclinastis, inclinat, inclinata, inclinate, inclinati, inclinato, inclinatur, inclinaturque, inclinatus, inclinaverat, inclinaveris, inclinaverit, inclinaverunt, inclinavi, inclinavit, inclinentur, inclinet, inclino, subcubuerit, vergebat, vergens, vergentem, vergentis, vergere, vergit, vergo, vergunt. (various references)

onhyldan, onlutan. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "incline": inclined, incliner, incliners, inclines. (additional references)

Words ending with "incline": disincline. (additional references)

Words containing "incline": disinclined, disinclines. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Incline" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ecline, encine, encliner, icine, iicldn, Inchinnan, Inchinor, inclinen, Inclino, Inglind, Linkline, Nicolene, Niklin, O'clyne. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: cline, linen, linin.

-3 letters: ceil, cine, lice, lien, line, linn, nice, nine.

-4 letters: cel, ice, inn, lei, lie, lin, nil.

-5 letters: el, en, in, li, ne.

+1 letter: inclined, incliner, inclines, lichenin.

+2 letters: anticline, clonidine, crinoline, declining, incliners, licencing, licensing, lichening, lichenins, nickeling, penciling, reclining, silencing, vicennial.

+3 letters: anticlines, centillion, clinkering, clonidines, crinolined, crinolines, disincline, encircling, enticingly, incidental, inclinable, inflecting, inflection, invincible, leniencies, nephelinic, nickelling, pencilings, pencilling, penicillin, princeling, stenciling.

+4 letters: cannibalise, cannibalize, centillions, cylindering, declination, disinclined, disinclines, finicalness, geanticline, illuminance, incidentals, incipiently, inflections, influencing, insincerely, interlacing, linebacking, linecasting, luminescing, pencillings, penicillins, princelings, reconciling, relicensing, sickeningly, stencilling, undecillion.