adj
Having an upward slope.
adv
Slightly turned or opened.
adj
Turned or tipped forward.
v
(transitive) To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.
n
The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; gradient; steepness
adj
(dated) Aslant, or sloping.
adj
Turned or twisted to one side.
adv
(archaic, literary) At a slant.
adv
At an angle from the vertical or horizontal; at the point of falling over.
n
(fluid mechanics) Flow over a backward-facing step.
v
(geology, intransitive) To incline upward so as to appear at the surface.
adj
(obsolete) Having a diagonal stripe; bendy.
adj
(slang, soccer) Inaccurately aimed.
adj
(slang) bent, not lawful.
adj
Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.
adj
Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
adj
In the manner of a blade.
n
(obsolete) A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.
adj
Inclined at an angle to something else; sloping.
n
(television, cinematography) A camera angle which is deliberately slanted to one side, sometimes used for dramatic effect to help portray unease, disorientation, frantic or desperate action, intoxication, madness, etc.
n
inclination; ascent or descent; a gradient
adj
Prepared and poised to act, like a snake that has coiled its lower body so it can strike.
adv
With a coiling motion or form.
adj
Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
v
To render concave, or increase the degree of concavity.
n
An angle or space which cannot be seen or defended from behind the parapet of a fortification.
adj
(botany) Bent abruptly downward.
adj
Bending down; sloping.
v
(geology) To curve or arc downwards.
adj
Curved or flexed downward.
adj
Located down a slope or hill.
n
The process of taking scientific samples as a probe is moving downward.
adj
In the lower part of a well.
n
(film) A cinematic tactic achieved by tilting the camera off to the side. The shot is composed with the horizon not parallel with the bottom of the frame. The technique is often used to portray the psychological uneasiness of the subject being filmed.
n
(film) A cinematic tactic achieved by tilting the camera off to the side. The shot is composed with the horizon not parallel with the bottom of the frame. The technique is often used to portray the psychological uneasiness of the subject being filmed.
adj
Obsolete form of inclined. [At an angle to the horizontal; slanted or sloped.]
v
Obsolete spelling of incline [(transitive) To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.]
adj
Obsolete form of inclined. [At an angle to the horizontal; slanted or sloped.]
v
(intransitive) To evert a bodily organ inside surface to outside.
n
An act of turning inside out.
n
Alternative spelling of flexion [The act of bending a joint, especially a bone joint; the counteraction of extension.]
n
(countable, geometry) A point of inflection.
n
Clipping of flexible. [(chiefly engineering and manufacturing) Something that is flexible.]
n
A strip of flexible material that can be used for drawing curves, measuring posture, etc.
n
The act of bending a joint, especially a bone joint; the counteraction of extension.
n
A variable-length extension to a tool or device.
adj
Alternative form of flexuous [winding from side to side; sinuous]
n
The act of bending or flexing; flexion.
v
(mathematics) To set a lower bound.
v
Alternative form of genuflect [(intransitive, archaic) To bend the knee, as in servitude.]
adj
(archaic or now informal) Alternative spelling of hellbent
n
The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists.
n
That which is bent or curved inward.
n
A physical tilt or bend.
adj
Having the quality of leaning or inclining.
v
(transitive) To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.
v
(transitive) To bend (especially inwards); to give a curved shape to.
v
(intransitive) To curve inwards.
v
(transitive) To cause to curve inwards.
v
To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect.
n
An inflection; a bend or fold.
v
(obsolete) To fix within, as in a globe.
adj
(rare) Swung or bent inward.
v
(intransitive, informal, rare) to entangle; to be confused, muddled, or enmeshed
v
(medicine, ophthalmology) To twist inwards.
adj
Flexed or bent inward.
n
(medicine) A bending inward.
adj
(botany) Facing or turned inwards or towards an axis.
v
(medicine) To fold inward to create a hollow space where none had existed, as with a gastrula forming from a blastula.
n
(medicine) The process where an anatomical part invaginates upon itself or into another structure.
adj
(botany) Having an involucre; involucred.
v
To roll or curl inwards.
n
(of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
v
To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
n
An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
n
A position in which a person sits upright in a bed, possibly bending forward.
v
(Vedic arithmetic) To perform osculation.
v
Of a circle, to become stretched out in one direction, thereby becoming an oval.
n
(television) The additional area around the four edges of a video image, outside of the safe area, that is not normally seen by the viewer.
n
(obsolete) slope; inclination
n
(figuratively) The brink of a dangerous situation.
adj
Very steep; precipitous.
v
(transitive, anatomy) To twist the foot so that if walking the weight would be borne on the inner edge of the foot.
adj
(of a landmass or other shape) Split into a major part and a minor part joined by a short corridor.
n
Synonym of quicksilver water
adj
Sloping; having a rake or incline.
adj
Steep, changing altitude quickly. (of a slope)
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids).
adj
Reentering; pointing inward.
adj
(biology) Bent back at an acute angle.
adj
(obsolete) Bent outwards.
v
to roll back, curve upwards
n
(theater) The rotation of part of the scenery within a theatrical production.
v
To change the shape of (an object) to make it smoother and especially more circular or ovoid.
n
The action of the verb to shape.
adj
Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.
n
A mode of grafting in which the scion, cut quite across very obliquely, so as to give it the form of a slender wedge, is thrust down inside of the bark of the stock or stem into which it is inserted, the cut side of the scion being next the wood of the stock.
v
(transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
n
A slope; an incline, inclination.
adj
Alternative form of slantendicular [(archaic, dialect) oblique; indirect]
adj
Alternative form of slantendicular [(archaic, dialect) oblique; indirect]
n
Obsolete form of slant. [A slope; an incline, inclination.]
adv
In a sloping fashion; obliquely.
adj
(obsolete) Difficult to access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.
adj
steep; high; inaccessible
adj
Making use of or possessing a stilt or stilts, or things resembling stilts; raised on stilts.
n
Alternative spelling of swansdown [The down of a swan.]
n
Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side
adj
Bent in half; buckled.
adj
(obsolete) Lit with a taper.
n
Reduction in flow rate between two points caused by an intermediate restriction, device, structure or configuration.
v
(transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant.
adj
Tilted or tending to tilt
n
An act of tipping up or tilting.
adj
(of a seat) Designed to tilt to a vertical position when not in use, either manually or of its own accord.
adj
(Canada, US) Tending to tip or tilt over; unstable.
n
An inclination in a particular direction.
n
(archaic) A boundary line, especially one at the outermost limit; an extreme edge.
v
(transitive) To cover or line the underside of (a floor or roof) with plasterwork, boarding or other such treatment.
v
(transitive) To coat (the underbody or chassis of a vehicle) with underseal.
adj
having a low center of gravity
n
(geology) A bulging upwards in a dome shape.
adj
(of a nose etc.) turned up at the end
adj
Leaning upward or over.
v
To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope.
n
The measurement of the extent of something from side to side.
adj
Designed to be worn or placed inward
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