How Do You Use The Word Incline?

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up or as if up the slope of a hill or other incline; upward: The soldiers marched uphill.

What is a word for incline?

Some common synonyms of incline are bias, dispose, and predispose. While all these words mean “to influence one to have or take an attitude toward something,” incline implies a tendency to favor one of two or more actions or conclusions. I incline to agree.

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Is slope and incline the same?

When used as nouns, incline means a slope, whereas slope means an area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward. When used as verbs, incline means to bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical, whereas slope means to tend steadily upward or downward.

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