slopedadj.
/sləʊpt/, U.S. /sloʊpt/ 1. Formed with a slope; cut, raised, placed, etc., in a sloping position.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] > inclined from level or sloping
pyramidala1398
shoringc1503
slopec1503
pitching1519
current?1523
battering1589
pitched1594
aslope1599
sloping1610
shelving1615
stooping1621
raking1665
sloped1683
shedding1688
slopy1740
raked1948
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 311 Turning the Ball about by its Handle, [he] presses it hard against the sloapt edge of the Ball-knife.
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner i. iii. xiv. 167 I will make into Sloped Banks the 15 Toises or Fathoms of Augmentation to the South.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Engrafting Almost as long as the sloap'd Part of the Cyon.
1766 Compl. Farmer at Surveying An index, which is a large ruler of wood..having a sloped edge.
1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 319/1 The sloped work had been destroyed.
1859 J. Ruskin Elements Perspective xviii. 132 Cut a piece of strong white pasteboard.., and dip it in a sloped position into water.
1893 Earl of Dunmore Pamirs I. 73 Two Kashmiri soldiers..marching along with sloped arms.
2. Bacteriology. = slanted adj. 1b.
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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > material > [adjective] > culture or medium
sloped1897
agarized1902
monolayer1952
HeLa1953
polyxenic1953
1897 R. Muir & J. Ritchie Man. Bacteriol. 54 ‘Sloped’ agar and gelatine tubes are used... Less frequently gelatine is also ‘sloped’.
1897 R. Muir & J. Ritchie Man. Bacteriol. Index 516/2 Sloped cultures.
1925 J. W. Bigger Handbk. Bacteriol. 51 Sloped or slanted media.
1930 J. W. H. Eyre Bacteriol. Technique (ed. 3) 265 Oblique slant or sloped tube, in which the medium has been allowed to solidify whilst the tube was retained in an inclined position.
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