Crossword clues for incline
incline
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incline \In*cline"\, n. An inclined plane; an ascent or descent; a grade or gradient; a slope.
Incline \In*cline"\, v. t.
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To cause to deviate from a line, position, or direction; to give a leaning, bend, or slope to; as, incline the column or post to the east; incline your head to the right.
Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear.
--Is. xxxvii. 17. -
To impart a tendency or propensity to, as to the will or affections; to turn; to dispose; to influence.
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies.
--Ps. cxix. 36.Incline our hearts to keep this law.
--Book of Com. Prayer. -
To bend; to cause to stoop or bow; as, to incline the head or the body in acts of reverence or civility.
With due respect my body I inclined.
--Dryden.
Incline \In*cline"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Inclined; p. pr. & vb. n. Inclining.] [OE. inclinen, enclinen, OF. encliner, incliner, F. incliner, L. inclinare; pref. in- in + clinare to bend, incline; akin to E. lean. See Lean to incline.]
To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south.
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Fig.: To lean or tend, in an intellectual or moral sense; to favor an opinion, a course of conduct, or a person; to have a propensity or inclination; to be disposed.
Their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech.
--Judges ix. -
Power finds its balance, giddy motions cease In both the scales, and each inclines to peace.
--Parnell.3. To bow; to incline the head.
--Chaucer.Syn: To lean; slope; slant; tend; bend.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "to bend or bow toward," from Old French encliner, from Latin inclinare "to cause to lean; bend, incline, turn, divert," from in- "into, in, on, upon" (see in- (2)) + clinare "to bend," from PIE *klei-n-, suffixed form of *klei- "to lean" (see lean (v.)). Metaphoric sense of "have a mental disposition toward" is early 15c. in English (but existed in classical Latin). Related: Inclined; inclining.
c.1600, "mental tendency," from incline (v.). The literal meaning "slant, slope" is attested from 1846.
Wiktionary
n. A slope. vb. 1 (lb en transitive) To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical. 2 (lb en intransitive) To slope. 3 To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view, attitude, etc.
WordNet
n. an elevated geological formation; "he climbed the steep slope"; "the house was built on the side of the mountain" [syn: slope, side]
an inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another [syn: ramp]
v. have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence" [syn: tend, be given, lean, run]
bend or turn (one's ear) towards a speaker in order to listen well; "He inclined his ear to the wise old man"
lower or bend (the head or upper body), as in a nod or bow; "She inclined her head to the student"
be at an angle; "The terrain sloped down" [syn: slope, pitch]
make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief; "Their language inclines us to believe them" [syn: dispose] [ant: indispose]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Incline, inclined, inclining, or inclination may refer to:
- Incline, California
- Inclined plane, a flat surface whose endpoints are at different heights
- Inclined orbit, an orbital plane is tipped away from the equator
- cable hauled railways, a steeply graded railway that uses a cable or rope to haul trains
- Inclined loop, a feature found on some roller coasters
- Inclined rig, a method of rigging a sail to direct the force of the sails in such a way as to reduce heeling
- Inclined tower, a tower that was intentionally built at an incline
- Inclining test, to determine a ship's stability and the coordinates of its center of gravity
- 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
- Slope, steepness, incline, or grade of a line
- Grade (slope), of a topographic feature or constructed element
- Manitou Incline, a steep hiking trail in Manitou Springs, Colorado
Usage examples of "incline".
The General was inclined to be explosive and melodramatic, and the German bankers to make a poor mouth about it, but Loeffler was as steadfast as a rock.
However, the new resident commissioner at Passy, John Adams, required closer study, and in an effort to inform London, Alexander provided an especially perceptive appraisal: John Adams is a man of the shortest of what is called middle size in England, strong and tight-made, rather inclining to fat, of a complexion that bespeaks a warmer climate than Massachusetts is supposed, a countenance which bespeaks rather reflection than imagination.
We next experimented on nearly a score of radicles by allowing them to grow downwards over inclined plates of smoked glass, in exactly the same manner as with Aesculus and Phaseolus.
But there was also movement in a vertical plane at right angles to the inclined glassplates.
Thin slips of wood were cemented on more or less steeply inclined glassplates, at right angles to the radicles which were gliding down them.
For while Anglo cowhands preferred to fall clear of a cart-wheeling pony when things went wrong, the Mexican vaquero was inclined to be more fatalistic about the possible future, and preferred his ass comfortable in the here and now.
At first sight we should be inclined to think that these little swellings near the tips of the toes would be rather an inconvenience to the anolis, by impeding its movements.
Magister Artium is one of his titles on the College Catalogue, and I like best to speak of him as the Master, because he has a certain air of authority which none of us feel inclined to dispute.
Hommel, the Assyriologist, who is inclined to derive Egyptian civilization entirely from the Babylonian.
I had the same idea: Set up a sort of young artistic bohemian theme park, sprinkled around in all the major cities, where young New Atlantans who were so inclined could congregate and be subversive when they were in the mood.
We are inclined to think that it is a reference to the voyage of Magellan, coupled with an erroneous rendering of the date in the account of Maximilianus Transylvanus: Soluit itaque Magellanus die decimo Augusti, Anno, M.
Not inclined to stop and chat, I took the backstairs down to the whitewashed lower hall, a long basement with shallow windows high in the walls bringing light from outside.
He did not mention their destination, nor why Balam stayed behind, and she was not inclined to ask.
Che hung balkily back at the full stretch of his lead -neither of them had ever managed to train the stupid creature to follow, a failure that in his darker moments Rudy was inclined to attribute to the malice of the Bishop of Gae.
Che hung balkily back at the full stretch of his lead-neither of them had ever managed to train the stupid creature to follow, a failure that in his darker moments, Rudy was inclined to attribute to the malice of the Bishop of Gae.