English-Danish translations for slope

  • hældningHvis Europa øger hastigheden, skyldes det snarere vejens hældning end motorens tilstand. If Europe is picking up speed it has more to do with the slope of the road than with the state of our engine. Det første udkast, hvori der blev fastsat en 80 % (i modsætning til 60 %) hældning for grænseværdikurven, er blevet trukket tilbage. The first draft, which laid down an 80% (as opposed to the present 60%) slope for the limit-value curve, has been withdrawn. Ændringsforslag 2, 3 og 5 om den tilladte hældning i busser er i princippet acceptable, men vil uden tvivl kunne forbedres med hensyn til udarbejdelsen. Amendments Nos 2, 3 and 5, which relate to the permissible slope of the bus' s floor area, are acceptable in principle, but may, of course, be reviewed at the drafting stage.
  • skråne
  • skråningVi kunne have forventet, at vi med kun godt tre uger tilbage af dette Parlaments embedsperiode ville befinde os på den blide skråning henimod valget. We might have expected that, with just over three weeks of the life of this Parliament left to go, we might be on the gentle slope towards an election.

Definition of slope

  • An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward
  • The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward
  • 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
  • The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point
  • 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
  • A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent
  • To tend steadily upward or downward
  • To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant
  • To try to move surreptitiously
  • To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder
  • Sloping
  • slopingly

Examples

  • I had to climb a small slope to get to the site
  • The road has a very sharp downward slope at that point
  • The slope of this line is 0.5
  • The slope of a parabola increases linearly with x
  • The slope of an asphalt shingle roof system should be 4:12 or greater
  • The road slopes sharply down at that point
  • to slope the ground in a garden;   to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment
  • I sloped in through the back door, hoping my boss wouldnt see me
  • The order was given to "slope arms

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