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incline

verb
/ɪnˈklaɪn/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-der. Proto-Italic *kleināō Latin clīnō Latin inclīnāre Old French enclinerbor. Middle English enclinen English incline From Middle English enclinen, from Old French encliner (modern incliner), from Latin inclīnō (“incline, tilt”), from in- + clīnō (compare -cline), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (English lean).

  1. derived from *ḱley-✻
  2. derived from inclīnō
  3. derived from encliner
  4. inherited from enclinen

Definitions

  1. To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or…

    To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.

    • He had to incline his body against the gusts to avoid being blown down in the storm.
    • The people following the coffin inclined their heads in grief.

  2. To slope.

    • Over the centuries the wind made the walls of the farmhouse incline.

  3. To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from…

    To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view, attitude, etc.

    • He inclines to believe anything he reads in the newspapers.
    • I'm inclined to give up smoking after hearing of the risks to my health.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A slope.

      • To reach the building, we had to climb a steep incline.

    2. A portal of a subway tunnel.

      • the Pleasant Street Incline

The neighborhood

Derived

disincline, inclinable, inclinator, incliningly, misincline, preincline, uninclining, incline elevator, incline lift, inclineman, inclinometer

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at incline. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at incline. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at incline

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA