| Main Entry: | pitch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tilt |
Synonyms: |
angle, cant, degree, dip, gradient, height, incline, level, point, slant, slope, steepness |
| Notes: | to put up a tent is to pitch it; to take down a tent is to strike it pitch is movement up and down and yaw is movement side to side on a ship, airplane, or other conveyance |
| Main Entry: | slope |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slant, tilt |
Synonyms: |
abruptness, bank, bend, bevel, bias, cant, declination, declivity, deflection, descent, deviation, diagonal, downgrade, gradient, hill, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, obliqueness, obliquity, pitch, ramp, rise, rising ground, shelf, skew, steepness, swag, sway, tip |
Antonyms: |
evenness, level |
| Main Entry: | slope |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
abrupt, acclivous, ajee, anticlinal, antiparallel, ascending, askew, aslant, athwart, awry, battered, bevel, breakneck, calculated to, canted, clinal, conducive, crooked, curved, declining, declivous, descending, devex, diagonal, downhill, falling, in a fair way to, inclined, indirect, knock, oblique, out of the perpendicular, plagiedral, precipitous, raked back, recumbent, rising, skew, skygodlin, slant, slantendicular, sloping, steep, subservient, tilted, transversal, transverse, uphill, wry
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