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SLOPE

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Traducere în limba română

slope I. substantiv

1. pantă, povârniş; coastă.

2. pantă, povârnire, înclinaţie.

3. taluz.

4. mil. poziţie cu arma la umăr.

slope II. verb tranzitiv

a înclina, a povârni.

slope III. verb intranzitiv

a se înclina, a se povârni.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

When Mugridge was directly beneath us, the stern descended the slope of a passing wave, thus giving the advantage to the shark.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

The new findings of hydrated salts on the slopes point to what that relationship may be to these dark features.

(NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today's Mars, NASA)

Supporting this conclusion, the researchers found that the pole-facing slopes of these craters are slightly shallower than their equator-facing slopes, and that the shallowing is more significant in regions that promote ice stability because of Mercury’s orbit around the Sun.

(The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits, NASA)

The forehead is broad and fine, rising at first almost straight and then sloping back above two bumps or ridges wide apart; such a forehead that the reddish hair cannot possibly tumble over it, but falls naturally back and to the sides.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I used to fancy, as I sat by him of an evening, on a green slope, and saw him watch the kite high in the quiet air, that it lifted his mind out of its confusion, and bore it (such was my boyish thought) into the skies.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The sloping wall of the pit was not difficult for an active man to climb, but I hesitated long before I trusted myself within reach of the dreadful creature which had so nearly destroyed me.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He began to notice near objects—an open portion of the stream that flashed in the sun, the blasted pine-tree that stood at the base of the slope, and the slope itself, that ran right up to him and ceased two feet beneath the lip of the cave on which he crouched.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Through such country did the party ride for eight or it might be nine miles, until the sun began to slope down in the west and their shadows to stream down the road in front of them.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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