{
    "term": "slope",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "image": "data/images/mo/mountains.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a surface or piece of land that slopes (= is higher at one end than the other)",
            "sensetop": "on a slope",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The town is built on a slope.",
                    "contextForm": "on a slope"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Down the slope and beyond the road lay the Pacific Ocean."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He made his way up the slope from the station to the bus stop."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a grassy slope"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We clambered up the steep, rocky slope."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a slope leading down to the river"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a west-facing slope overlooking the river"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "incline",
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["precipitous", "steep", "gentle"],
                "verb + slope": ["ascend", "clamber up", "climb"],
                "slope + verb": ["lead to something", "rise", "level off"],
                "preposition": ["down a/​the slope", "of a/​the slope", "on a/​the slope"],
                "phrases": [
                    "the bottom of a slope",
                    "the foot of a slope",
                    "the top of a slope"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "an area of land that is part of a mountain or hill",
            "sensetop": "slope of somethingon a slope",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the eastern slopes of the Andes",
                    "contextForm": "slope of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "ski slopes"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We camped on an open mountain slope.",
                    "contextForm": "on a slope"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He spends all winter **on the slopes** *(= skiing)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There were more skiers further up the slope."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was now molten lava several hundred metres down the slope."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Rocks and boulders rolled down the slopes of the crater."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The lower slopes rise quite gently."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was snow on the higher slopes of the mountain."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The vineyards on the south-facing slopes get more sunshine."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Sports: other sports", "Geography"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["precipitous", "steep", "gentle"],
                "verb + slope": ["ascend", "clamber up", "climb"],
                "slope + verb": ["lead to something", "rise", "level off"],
                "preposition": ["down a/​the slope", "of a/​the slope", "on a/​the slope"],
                "phrases": [
                    "the bottom of a slope",
                    "the foot of a slope",
                    "the top of a slope"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the amount by which something slopes",
            "sensetop": "slope of something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **steep slope**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a gentle slope"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a slope of 45 degrees",
                    "contextForm": "slope of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Because of the slope of the roof, the snow cannot accumulate."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the angle of slope"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The football pitch has a slope of about one metre."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The unemployment-income curve on the graph has a negative slope."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most of the city’s land has a slope of 30 degrees or more."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The land rises in a gentle slope from the sea to the foot of the mountains."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["precipitous", "steep", "gentle"],
                "verb + slope": ["ascend", "clamber up", "climb"],
                "slope + verb": ["lead to something", "rise", "level off"],
                "preposition": ["down a/​the slope", "of a/​the slope", "on a/​the slope"],
                "phrases": [
                    "the bottom of a slope",
                    "the foot of a slope",
                    "the top of a slope"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a course of action that is difficult to stop once it has begun, and can lead to serious problems or disaster",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She realized he was on the slippery slope towards a life of crime."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/sləʊp/",
                "audio": "sl/slope/slope__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/sləʊp/",
                "audio": "sl/slope/slope__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (as a verb): from the obsolete adverb slope, a shortening of aslope. The use of the verb in sense 3 may be related to lope."
}