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{
"term": "slope",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"image": "data/images/mo/mountains.png",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a surface or piece of land that slopes (= is higher at one end than the other)",
"sensetop": "on a slope",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The town is built on a slope.",
"contextForm": "on a slope"
},
{
"text": "Down the slope and beyond the road lay the Pacific Ocean."
},
{
"text": "He made his way up the slope from the station to the bus stop."
},
{
"text": "a grassy slope"
},
{
"text": "We clambered up the steep, rocky slope."
},
{
"text": "a slope leading down to the river"
},
{
"text": "a west-facing slope overlooking the river"
}
],
"synonyms": "incline",
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["precipitous", "steep", "gentle"],
"verb + slope": ["ascend", "clamber up", "climb"],
"slope + verb": ["lead to something", "rise", "level off"],
"preposition": ["down a/the slope", "of a/the slope", "on a/the slope"],
"phrases": [
"the bottom of a slope",
"the foot of a slope",
"the top of a slope"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "an area of land that is part of a mountain or hill",
"sensetop": "slope of somethingon a slope",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "the eastern slopes of the Andes",
"contextForm": "slope of something"
},
{
"text": "ski slopes"
},
{
"text": "We camped on an open mountain slope.",
"contextForm": "on a slope"
},
{
"text": "He spends all winter **on the slopes** *(= skiing)*."
},
{
"text": "There were more skiers further up the slope."
},
{
"text": "There was now molten lava several hundred metres down the slope."
},
{
"text": "Rocks and boulders rolled down the slopes of the crater."
},
{
"text": "The lower slopes rise quite gently."
},
{
"text": "There was snow on the higher slopes of the mountain."
},
{
"text": "The vineyards on the south-facing slopes get more sunshine."
}
],
"topics": ["Sports: other sports", "Geography"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["precipitous", "steep", "gentle"],
"verb + slope": ["ascend", "clamber up", "climb"],
"slope + verb": ["lead to something", "rise", "level off"],
"preposition": ["down a/the slope", "of a/the slope", "on a/the slope"],
"phrases": [
"the bottom of a slope",
"the foot of a slope",
"the top of a slope"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "the amount by which something slopes",
"sensetop": "slope of something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a **steep slope**"
},
{
"text": "a gentle slope"
},
{
"text": "a slope of 45 degrees",
"contextForm": "slope of something"
},
{
"text": "Because of the slope of the roof, the snow cannot accumulate."
},
{
"text": "the angle of slope"
},
{
"text": "The football pitch has a slope of about one metre."
},
{
"text": "The unemployment-income curve on the graph has a negative slope."
},
{
"text": "Most of the city’s land has a slope of 30 degrees or more."
},
{
"text": "The land rises in a gentle slope from the sea to the foot of the mountains."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["precipitous", "steep", "gentle"],
"verb + slope": ["ascend", "clamber up", "climb"],
"slope + verb": ["lead to something", "rise", "level off"],
"preposition": ["down a/the slope", "of a/the slope", "on a/the slope"],
"phrases": [
"the bottom of a slope",
"the foot of a slope",
"the top of a slope"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a course of action that is difficult to stop once it has begun, and can lead to serious problems or disaster",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She realized he was on the slippery slope towards a life of crime."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/sləʊp/",
"audio": "sl/slope/slope__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/sləʊp/",
"audio": "sl/slope/slope__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (as a verb): from the obsolete adverb slope, a shortening of aslope. The use of the verb in sense 3 may be related to lope."
}