Lean vs. Slope

Leanverb

To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.

Leanverb

To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; with to, toward, etc.

Leanverb

To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on, upon, or against.

Leanverb

To hang outwards.

Leanverb

To press against.

Leanverb

To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.

Leanverb

To conceal.

Leannoun

(of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.

Leannoun

Meat with no fat on it.

Leannoun

A recreational drug based on codeine-laced promethazine cough syrup, popular in the hip hop community in the southeastern United States.

Leanadjective

(of a person or animal) Slim; not fleshy.

Leanadjective

(of meat) Having little fat.

Leanadjective

Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.

Leanadjective

Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.

Leanadjective

Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed to fat.

Leanadjective

(business) Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing"

Leanverb

To conceal.

Leanverb

To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column.

Leanverb

To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; - with to, toward, etc.

Leanverb

To rest or rely, for support, comfort, and the like; - with on, upon, or against.

Leanverb

To cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest.

Leanadjective

Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; slim; not plump; slender; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle.

Leanadjective

Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; - used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages.

Leanadjective

Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; - opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter, or type.

Leannoun

That part of flesh which consists principally of muscle without the fat.

Leannoun

Unremunerative copy or work.

Leannoun

the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical;

Leanverb

to incline or bend from a vertical position;

Leanverb

cause to lean or incline;

Leanverb

have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined;

Leanverb

rely on for support;

Leanverb

cause to lean to the side;

Leanadjective

lacking excess flesh;

Leanadjective

lacking in mineral content or combustible material;

Leanadjective

containing little excess;

Leanadjective

low in mineral content;

Leanadjective

not profitable or prosperous;

Leanverb

be in or move into a sloping position

Leanverb

incline from the perpendicular and rest for support against (something)

Leanverb

cause something to rest against

Leannoun

a deviation from the perpendicular; an inclination

Leannoun

the lean part of meat

Leanadjective

(of a person or animal) thin, especially healthily so; having no superfluous fat

Leanadjective

(of meat) containing little fat

Leanadjective

(of an industry or company) efficient and with no wastage

Leanadjective

offering little reward, substance, or nourishment; meagre

Leanadjective

(of a vaporized fuel mixture) having a high proportion of air

Slopenoun

An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.

Slopenoun

The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.

Slopenoun

(mathematics) The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if the line is horizontal, undefined if it is vertical.

Slopenoun

(mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.

Slopenoun

The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise to the units of horizontal length (sometimes referred to as run).

Slopenoun

A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.

Slopeverb

(intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.

Slopeverb

(transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.

Slopeverb

To try to move surreptitiously.

Slopeverb

(military) To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.

Slopeadjective

(obsolete) Sloping.

Slopeadverb

(obsolete) slopingly

Slopenoun

An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.

Slopenoun

Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.

Slopenoun

The part of a continent descending toward, and draining to, a particular ocean; as, the Pacific slope.

Slopeadjective

Sloping.

Slopeadverb

In a sloping manner.

Slopeverb

To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.

Slopeverb

To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.

Slopeverb

To depart; to disappear suddenly.

Slopenoun

an elevated geological formation;

Slopenoun

the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal;

Slopeverb

be at an angle;

Slopenoun

a surface of which one end or side is at a higher level than another; a rising or falling surface

Slopenoun

a difference in level or sideways position between the two ends or sides of a thing

Slopenoun

a part of the side of a hill or mountain, especially as a place for skiing

Slopenoun

the gradient of a graph at any point.

Slopenoun

the mutual conductance of a valve, numerically equal to the gradient of one of the characteristic curves of the valve.

Slopenoun

a person from East Asia, especially Vietnam.

Slopeverb

(of a surface or line) be inclined from a horizontal or vertical line; slant up or down

Slopeverb

place or arrange in a sloping position

Slopeverb

move in an idle or aimless manner

Slopeverb

leave unobtrusively, typically in order to evade work or duty

Slope

In mathematics, the slope or gradient of a line is a number that describes both the direction and the steepness of the line. Slope is often denoted by the letter m; there is no clear answer to the question why the letter m is used for slope, but its earliest use in English appears in O'Brien (1844) who wrote the equation of a straight line as and it can also be found in Todhunter (1888) who wrote it as .Slope is calculated by finding the ratio of the to the between (any) two distinct points on a line.