incline
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4.2
- noun
- /ˈɪnˌklaɪn/
:
pendiente
- A little bridge, a slight incline; the road began to rise toward the red mountains.
- a steep incline
- incline and decline
- speed and incline
So I mean, we did the incline dumbbell press.
- So I mean, we did the incline dumbbell press.
- For me, it'll just be a kickstand so I can get that healthy ergonomic incline on my keyboard.
- Are you still doing your treadmill incline?
- And what we have is the block is sliding down the incline plane, bouncing off the bumper and sliding up the incline plane.
- You have a cylinder which is round and it can roll down an incline.
- But we get to a place where you have to descend down to the waterfall via a very steep incline in a rope.
- Every single person has said incline dumbbell press, chest press.
- And then I, I just vividly remember the incline in my mind in that moment, like, oh God, that would be awful.
Examples
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The Flame stands on a steep incline, its back wedged against the wall of a terrace.
Fiction book (1996) -
This incline is 30 degrees roughly, right?
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Let me take this incline back down.
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Then up this steep incline over here and around the river.
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Beth sits in a chair that is on an incline and braces herself.
Fiction book (1992) -
By the time we turned up Chancellor Avenue's steep incline, our discomfort was acute.
Fiction book (1990) -
The traffic was creeping up an incline, horses straining and impatient.
Fiction book (1993) -
The groundcar slowed again and began climbing a steep incline, its engines laboring from the strain.
Fiction book (1992) -
Here, the current, rushing down off an incline and keeping its headlong momentum, flowed through Okazaki Park.
Fiction book (1992) -
The cyclists struggled to pedal up the steep incline on the mountain road.
Synonyms
163
1.6
A sloping surface that connects two levels for people or vehicles
125
2.4
A small upward slope in land or a surface
101
1.4
A part of land that goes up or down like the side of a hill
45
1.4
A part of a road or path that goes up
11
3.4
How much a surface goes up or down from flat
6
4.2
A slope on a road or path that goes up
1
3.9
A flat sloping surface that helps move heavy things up or down
A slope that goes up
An upward slope on a road or hill
Compounds
- Specialized
An exercise pressing a barbell or dumbbells up on a sloping bench to work the upper chest
How Steep
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word incline comes from the root clinare, 'to bend' or 'lean', and it names something that leans between two levels. So an incline is a sloping surface or ramp that goes up or down instead of staying flat.