sloping

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsləʊpɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsloʊpɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊpɪŋ
• Hyphenation: slop‧ing

sloping (comparative more sloping, superlative most sloping)

1. Having a slope.

   a sloping roof

   • 1993, Peter Redgrove, “The Mountain”, in The Laborators, Taxus Press, →ISBN, page 27:

     The beefarm on her sloping meadows, the sweet / Exacting spaces spinning honey; / Under the elms and the sycamores / The light leaves cherish many flowers, / The light air under the boughs threaded / With the vivid bees who return

• slopingly
• slopingness

sloping

1. present participle and gerund of slope

sloping (plural slopings)

1. An arrangement or motion by which something slopes.

• Polings, polings

From slopen +‎ -ing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsloː.pɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: slo‧ping

sloping f (plural slopingen)

1. demolition, the act or process of demolishing