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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inclined
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
less
▪ They will be less inclined to be loyal to Delhi.
▪ They may be less inclined henceforth to do so.
▪ Some heads were temperamentally and intellectually less inclined than others to perceive education in terms of grand statements and ringing slogans.
▪ Change your name to Pandora while you're at it, people might be less inclined to be dismissive!
▪ Filbert brushes are less inclined to have a build up of colour at the edges and can be versatile.
▪ Workers would probably have been less inclined to support them if their protests had met with reasoned discussion rather than tear gas.
▪ However, after two days at Reberty's Altea Hotel, we were less inclined to take this view.
▪ If members see their power over Labour reduced, they may be less inclined to vote Yes.
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▪ They were, however, more inclined to be cinemagoers.
▪ Those who strongly doubt whether the cost-benefit exercise can be adequately performed are more inclined to a rules based or structural approach.
▪ The Montagu case left homosexuals in Britain nervous and more inclined to circumspect behaviour.
▪ Other excitements took their place but I was more inclined to stare at them in amazement than paint them.
▪ Morris found that girls were more inclined than boys to feel shame in admitting delinquent acts.
▪ But for many, stories about one night-stands are more inclined to raise eyebrows than get them giggling.
▪ Wishful thinking made political partisans more optimistic about their own party's prospects and more inclined to forecast their opponents' defeat.
▪ By contrast, some Marxists are more inclined to emphasize capitalism's economic success in generating proletarian support.
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▪ Also we can be talking crack, smack and Carling Black Label if we are so inclined.
▪ And if you're so inclined, there's potential for ticking off a few classic rock climbs along the way.
■ NOUN
plane
▪ This drop was overcome by means of an inclined plane, up and down which the loaded barges were carried on trolleys.
▪ In the event it was decided against all precedent to bypass the flights by the construction of inclined plane lifts.
▪ Only one of the inclined planes was built, that at Foxton.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Anyone inclined to mock this suggestion should note that the armed services are perhaps the most respected institution in Britain today.
▪ I must admit the Hockin style was inclined to be more racy than that I used for the Gazette.
▪ It is not easy in a country as hierarchically inclined as ours to continually question authority in a constructive way.
▪ It manipulates the environment, and it is able to enforce moral duties on those who are inclined to disregard them.
▪ More orthodox scholars are inclined to scoff at such theories.
▪ Or did he, as some are inclined to think, actually invent it?
▪ Since plaintiffs naturally inclined to value their lost property exorbitantly, defendants did have reason to think seriously about restoring it.
▪ When the telephone rang yet again, she was inclined not to answer it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inclined

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.]

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

Inclined

Inclined \In*clined"\, p. p. & a.

  1. Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue. ``Each pensively inclined.''
    --Cowper.

  2. (Math.) Making an angle with some line or plane; -- said of a line or plane.

  3. (Bot.) Bent out of a perpendicular position, or into a curve with the convex side uppermost. Inclined plane. (Mech.)

    1. A plane that makes an oblique angle with the plane of the horizon; a sloping plane. When used to produce pressure, or as a means of moving bodies, it is one of the mechanical powers, so called.

    2. (Railroad & Canal) An inclined portion of track, on which trains or boats are raised or lowered from one level to another.

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inclined

  1. 1 At an angle to the horizontal; slanted or sloped. 2 Having a tendency, preference, likelihood, or disposition. alt. 1 At an angle to the horizontal; slanted or sloped. 2 Having a tendency, preference, likelihood, or disposition. v

  2. (en-past of: incline)

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inclined

  1. adj. (often followed by `to') having a preference, disposition, or tendency; "wasn't inclined to believe the excuse"; "inclined to be moody" [syn: inclined(p)] [ant: disinclined]

  2. at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position; "an inclined plane" [ant: horizontal, vertical]

  3. having made preparations; "prepared to take risks" [syn: disposed(p), fain, inclined(p), prepared]

  4. used especially of the head or upper back; "a bent head and sloping shoulders" [syn: bent, bowed]

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Usage examples of "inclined".

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.

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.

Situated as it was between Cheston-on-the-Water and greater London, Bentley frequented it often, for the Cat was the sort of place one could get a clean, louse-free bed and, if a man were so inclined, a clean, louse-free bedmate to warm it.