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Embankment vs. Slope — What's the Difference?

Embankment vs. Slope — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Embankment and Slope

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Embankment

The act of embanking.

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 "y = mx + b" and it can also be found in Todhunter (1888) who wrote it as "y = mx + c".Slope is calculated by finding the ratio of the "vertical change" to the "horizontal change" between (any) two distinct points on a line.

Embankment

An artificial slope of earth or stone, as at the edge of a road or a body of water.

Slope

A surface of which one end or side is at a higher level than another; a rising or falling surface
He slithered helplessly down the slope

Embankment

A long mound of earth, stone, or similar material, usually built for purposes such as to hold back or store water, for protection from weather or enemies, or to support a road or railway.
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Slope

A person from East Asia, especially Vietnam.

Embankment

The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.

Slope

(of a surface or line) be inclined from a horizontal or vertical line; slant up or down
The garden sloped down to a stream
The ceiling sloped

Embankment

A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc.

Slope

Move in an idle or aimless manner
I had seen Don sloping about the beach

Embankment

A long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection

Slope

To diverge from the vertical or horizontal; incline
A roof that slopes.

Slope

To move or walk
"Without another word he turned and sloped off down the driveway" (Roald Dahl).

Slope

To cause to slope
Sloped the path down the bank.

Slope

An inclined line, surface, plane, position, or direction.

Slope

A stretch of ground forming a natural or artificial incline
Ski slopes.

Slope

A deviation from the horizontal.

Slope

The amount or degree of such deviation.

Slope

The rate at which an ordinate of a point of a line on a coordinate plane changes with respect to a change in the abscissa.

Slope

The tangent of the angle of inclination of a line, or the slope of the tangent line for a curve or surface.

Slope

Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a person of East Asian birth or ancestry.

Slope

An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
I had to climb a small slope to get to the site.
A steep slope

Slope

The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
The road has a very sharp downward slope at that point.

Slope

(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.
The slope of this line is 0.5

Slope

(mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
The slope of a parabola increases linearly with x.

Slope

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).
The slope of an asphalt shingle roof system should be 4:12 or greater.

Slope

A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.

Slope

(intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.
The road slopes sharply down at that point.

Slope

(transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
To slope the ground in a garden;
To slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment

Slope

To try to move surreptitiously.
I sloped in through the back door, hoping my boss wouldn't see me.

Slope

(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.
The order was given to "slope arms".

Slope

(obsolete) Sloping.

Slope

(obsolete) slopingly

Slope

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.

Slope

Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.
Buildings the summit and slope of a hill.
Under the slopes of Pisgah.

Slope

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

Slope

Sloping.
A bank not steep, but gently slope.

Slope

In a sloping manner.

Slope

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.

Slope

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

Slope

To depart; to disappear suddenly.

Slope

An elevated geological formation;
He climbed the steep slope
The house was built on the side of the mountain

Slope

The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal;
A five-degree gradient

Slope

Be at an angle;
The terrain sloped down

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