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What (who) is Incline - definition
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Inclined; Inclining; Incline (disambiguation)
incline
I. v. n.
1.
Lean, slope, slant.
2.
Trend, verge, tend obliquely.
3.
Be disposed, have a disposition, have a desire, feel a propensity.
4.
Tend, go naturally, tend by nature, have a propensity, proclivity, leaning, bent, bias, or pre-disposition.
II. v. a.
1.
Give a direction toward.
2.
Dispose, predispose, turn, bias.
3.
Bend, bow.
incline
v. (BE)
1) (d; intr.) to incline to, towards (he inclines to laziness)
2) (d; tr.) to incline to (it inclined me to anger)
3) (E) I incline to believe that she is innocent
4) (H) the news inclined me to leave at once
incline
¦ verb
1. (usu. be inclined to/towards/to do something) be favourably disposed towards or willing to do.
2. (usu. be inclined to/to do something) have a specified tendency, disposition, or talent.
3. lean or turn away from a given plane or direction, especially the vertical or horizontal.
bend (one's head) forwards and downwards.
¦ noun an inclined surface, slope, or plane.
Derivatives
inclinable adjective
incliner noun
Origin
ME: from OFr. encliner, from L. inclinare 'to bend towards'.
Wikipedia
Incline
Incline, inclined, inclining, or inclination may refer to:
- Grade (slope), the tilt, steepness, or angle from horizontal of a topographic feature (hillside, meadow, etc.) or constructed element (road, railway, field, etc.)
- Slope, the tilt, steepness, or angle from horizontal of a line (in mathematics and geometry)
Incline may also refer to:
- Cable railway, a steeply graded railway that uses a cable or rope to haul trains
- Funicular (or funicular railway, a type of cable railway), a cable railway in which a cable attached moves cars up and down a steep slope
- Inclined loop, a feature found on some roller coasters
- Orbital inclination, the tilt of an object's orbit around a celestial body
- Inclined orbit, an orbit that does not lie on the equatorial plane
- Inclined plane, a flat surface whose endpoints are at different heights
- Inclined rig, a method of rigging a sail to direct the force of the sails in such a way as to reduce heeling
- Inclining test, a test that determines a ship's stability and the coordinates of its center of gravity
- Inclined building, a building that was intentionally built at an incline
- Inclined tower, a tower that was intentionally built at an incline
- Inclining test, a test that determines a ship's stability and the coordinates of its center of gravity
- Incline, California
- Manitou Incline, a hiking trail in Manitou Springs, Colorado
Examples of use of Incline
1. True, there remains a culture war in Turkey between those who incline to secularism and those who incline to fundamentalism.
2. Redistributive policies naturally incline governments towards totalitarianism.
3. "This can include brisk walking, ideally on an incline.
4. The steep incline ends too abruptly on Water Street.
5. "There‘s been a steady incline in absentee voting over decades," said Tom Parkins, Alexandria‘s general registrar.