Incline vs. Slope — What's the Difference?

To cause (someone) to have a certain tendency

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.

To dispose (someone) to have a certain preference or opinion or to take a course of action

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

To cause to lean, slant, or slope

A person from East Asia, especially Vietnam.

To bend or lower in a nod or bow

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

To be disposed to a certain preference, opinion, or course of action

Move in an idle or aimless manner

To deviate from the horizontal or vertical; slant

To diverge from the vertical or horizontal; incline

To lower or bend the head or body, as in a nod or bow.

To move or walk

An inclined surface; a slope or gradient

To cause to slope

(transitive) To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.

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

(intransitive) To slope.

A stretch of ground forming a natural or artificial incline

To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view, attitude, etc.

A deviation from the horizontal.

A slope.

The amount or degree of such deviation.

A portal of a subway tunnel.

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.

To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south.

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

Fig.: To lean or tend, in an intellectual or moral sense; to favor an opinion, a course of conduct, or a person; to have a propensity or inclination; to be disposed.

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

To bow; to incline the head.

An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.

To cause to deviate from a line, position, or direction; to give a leaning, bend, or slope to; as, incline the column or post to the east; incline your head to the right.

The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.

To impart a tendency or propensity to, as to the will or affections; to turn; to dispose; to influence.

(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.

To bend; to cause to stoop or bow; as, to incline the head or the body in acts of reverence or civility.

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

An inclined plane; an ascent or descent; a grade or gradient; a 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).

An elevated geological formation;

A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.

An inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another

(intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.

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

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

Bend or turn (one's ear) towards a speaker in order to listen well;

To try to move surreptitiously.

Lower or bend (the head or upper body), as in a nod or bow;

(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.

Be at an angle;

(obsolete) Sloping.

Make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief;

(obsolete) slopingly

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.

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

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

Sloping.

In a sloping manner.

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.

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

To depart; to disappear suddenly.

An elevated geological formation;

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

Be at an angle;