Slope vs. Batter

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.

Batterverb

To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.

Batterverb

(cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).

Batterverb

(figurative) To defeat soundly; to thrash.

Batterverb

To intoxicate.

Batterverb

(metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

Batterverb

(architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).

Batternoun

(cooking) A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying

Batternoun

A binge, a heavy drinking session.

Batternoun

A paste of clay or loam.

Batternoun

(printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

Batternoun

An incline on the outer face of a built wall.

Batternoun

(baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.

Batternoun

The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat; a batsman.

Batterverb

To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.

Batterverb

To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.

Batterverb

To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

Batterverb

To slope gently backward.

Batternoun

A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery.

Batternoun

Paste of clay or loam.

Batternoun

A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

Batternoun

A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.

Batternoun

The one who wields the bat in baseball; the one whose turn it is at bat; formerly called the batsman.

Batternoun

(baseball) a ballplayer who is batting

Batternoun

a flour mixture thin enough to pour or drop from a spoon

Batterverb

strike against forcefully;

Batterverb

strike violently and repeatedly;

Batterverb

make a dent or impression in;