To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south.
Fig.: To lean or tend, in an intellectual or moral sense; to favor an opinion, a course of conduct, or a person; to have a propensity or inclination; to be disposed.
To cause to deviate from a line, position, or direction; to give a leaning, bend, or slope to; as, incline the column or post to the east; incline your head to the right.
To impart a tendency or propensity to, as to the will or affections; to turn; to dispose; to influence.
An inclined plane; an ascent or descent; a grade or gradient; a slope.
To slope, to slant. To follow roof pitch. (Commercial door application)
an elevated geological formation; "he climbed the steep slope"; "the house was built on the side of the mountain"
have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence"
be at an angle; "The terrain sloped down"
A tunnel driven at an angle usually between 33 and 45 degrees or a tramway for lowering material down a slope.
A sloping tunnel; a shaft not vertical.
the slope of a roof expressed either in percent or in the number of vertical inches per horizontal inch
waggonway might need unavoidably to slope in the absence of any cutting or to reach staithes. This section is called an incline. Wagons would be need to run up or down it. Gravity could be employed on the downhill slopes. To assist horses used stationary winding engines were employed to haul the wagons up slopes - lowering the other wagons safely. Alternatively use of ropes or cables allowed those wagons going down a slope to pull other wagons up by gravity alone, called self-acting inclines. These mechanisms were introduced from the 1750s AD.
the slope of a roof expressed either in percent or in the number of vertical units of rise per horizontal unit of run.
1. To lean, slope or slant. 2. A sloping graded piece of land. 3. To have a preference or liking.