sloping Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb be at an angle
    slope; incline; pitch.
    • The terrain sloped down
  2. verb cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container
    splatter; slop; spill.
    • spill the milk
    • splatter water
  3. verb walk through mud or mire
    slosh; squish; splosh; splash; squelch; slop.
    • We had to splosh across the wet meadow
  4. verb ladle clumsily
    slop.
    • slop the food onto the plate
  5. verb feed pigs
    slop; swill.
  6. adjective satellite having an oblique or slanted direction
    aslope; aslant; diagonal; sloped; slanted; slanting.
  7. adjective satellite having a slanting form or direction
    • an area of gently sloping hills
    • a room with a sloping ceiling

WordNet

Slop"ing adjective
Definitions
  1. Inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon, or from a horizontal or other right line; oblique; declivous; slanting. -- Slop"ing*ly, adv.
    The sloping land recedes into the clouds. Cowper.

Webster 1913