VERB

1. To tend steadily upward or downward.

   The road slopes sharply down at that point.

2. To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.

   to slope the ground in a garden;   to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment

3. (usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously.

   I sloped in through the back door, hoping my boss wouldn't see me.

NOUN

1. An arrangement or motion by which something slopes.