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Definition: Sloped |
SlopedAdjective1. Having an oblique or slanted direction. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sloped" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: SlopedSynonyms: aslant (adj), aslope (adj), diagonal (adj), slanted (adj), slanting (adj), sloping (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sloped |
| English words defined with "sloped": incline ♦ pitch ♦ slope. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sloped": bulk wide-area excavation ♦ critical height ♦ Hallett table ♦ Overland Flow ♦ quarry body ♦ sausages, sloped keyboard, Solar Distillation. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Sloped over a chair as I stare (Ain't No Place Like Home; performing artist: Prince) | |
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Consumer Goods | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Sarpy Co terraces in the background enable producer to farm sloped farmland without creating soil erosion problems. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Sloped" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 84.82% of the time. "Sloped" is used about 112 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 84.82% | 95 | 33,629 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 8.93% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.25% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 112 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sloped": sloped keyboard ♦ sloped rafter. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "sloped": steep-sloped. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
house lot plan sloped | 5 |
house lots plan sloped | 4 |
landscaping sloped yard | 3 |
desk lap sloped writing | 3 |
diaphragm roof sloped | 2 |
landscaping lot sloped | 2 |
ceiling lighting recessed sloped | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sloped"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منحدر (aslope, chute, decline, declivity, descending, descent, dipped, downgrade, downhill, downward, inclined, slanted, slope, sloping, talus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | наклонен (downhill, hanging, inclined, intent, low-grade, oblique, one sided, prone, rampant, ready, scalene, skew, slant, slantindicular, slanting, sloping, splay, supine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 倾斜 (Canting, inclined, inclining, lean, Leaned, leaning, Leant, Oblique, raked, raking, slanted, slanting, slope, sloping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | skraanende tastatur (sloped keyboard), skraanende tagspaer (sloped rafter), kultur,der stryges ud på skråagar (culture streaked out on sloped agar tubes), haeldende tastatur (sloped keyboard), facet (bevel, facet, flat, sloped edge), asfalteret skraaning (sloped asphalt pad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | schuine dakspar (sloped rafter), hellend toetsenbord (sloped keyboard), hellend asfalt platform (sloped asphalt pad), facet (bevel, facet, facet name, flat, range, sloped edge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kalteva näppäimistö (sloped keyboard), fasetti (facet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | en sifflet (slanting, slopingly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schräg (askew, aslant, at an angle, bevel, beveled, diagonal, diagonally, fishy, inclinated, inclined, leaning, oblique, obliquely, off the straight, on the bias, on the cross, on the slant, skew, slanted, slanting, slantwise, slantwisely, sloping, sloppily, squint eyed, suspicious, transversal, weird), abgeschrägt (canted, chamfered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κεκλιμένο πληκτρολόγιο (sloped keyboard), καλλιέργεια εμβολιαζόμενη σε κεκλιμένους σωλήνες με αγάρ αγάρ (culture streaked out on sloped agar tubes), μπιζουτάρισμα (bevel, miter, mitre, sloped edge), επεξεργασία άκρων (bevel, sloped edge), ασφαλτωμένη κεκλιμένη επιφάνεια (sloped asphalt pad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | obliquo (askance, askew, cross, devious, indirect, lopsided, oblique, sidelong, sideward, slanting, sloping, slopingly, transversal, underhand, wry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 경사지". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opedslay cultura em tubos de agar inclinados (culture streaked out on sloped agar tubes), bisel (bevel). (various references) наклонный (downhill, inclined, oblique, prone, reclinate, sideling, slant, slanting, slantwise, sloping). (various references) inclinado (bowed, inclinable, inclined, induced, leaned, oblique, slanted, slanting, tilted, wanted, wrong). (various references) lutande tangentbord (sloped keyboard), fasett (facet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Sloped" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Salupeto, slaped, sliped, Sloboda, sloged, sloted, sloupe, sopad, soped. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-l-o-p-s" | |
-1 letter: doles, dopes, lodes, loped, lopes, plods, poled, poles, posed, slope, soled, spode. | |
-2 letters: dels, does, dole, dols, dope, dose, elds, epos, lode, lope, lops, lose, odes, olds, oles, oped, opes, peds, peso, pled, plod, pods, pole, pols, pose, sled, sloe, slop, sold, sole, sped. | |
-3 letters: del, doe, dol, dos, eds, eld, els, led. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-l-o-p-s" | |
+1 letter: deploys, deposal, despoil, diploes, dipoles, pedalos, polders, poodles, presold, slopped, splodge, spoiled, spooled. | |
+2 letters: asphodel, deplores, depolish, deposals, despoils, develops, diploses, displode, droplets, euploids, explodes, implodes, leopards, leporids, lopsided, malposed, pedocals, pistoled, pledgors, pleopods, plodders, ploidies, polished, poolside, postlude, premolds, redpolls, sepaloid, splendor, splodged, splodges, sploshed, stoppled, tadpoles. | |
+3 letters: anglepods, asphodels, clodpates, clodpoles, clupeoids, collapsed, decouples, deplorers, despoiled, despoiler, developes, dispeople, disploded, displodes, downslope, duopolies, ellipsoid, endoplasm, escaloped, exploders, galopades, lepidotes, levodopas, nonplused, opalesced, palinodes, pendulous, phyllodes, pistolled, pledgeors, plowheads, polarised, polypides, poolsides, postludes, poulardes, prolapsed, redeploys, scalloped, scolloped, sheepfold, splendors, splendour, splotched, spoliated, topsoiled, unspoiled, upholders, woodpiles. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6C 6F 70 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .-.. --- .--. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101100 01101111 01110000 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S l o p e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006C 006F 0070 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537881827170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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