Definition of "sloping" [slop•ing]

• Having a slope. (adjective)
• Present participle of slope. (verb)
• An arrangement or motion by which something slopes. (noun)

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• "Ice sloping from a bank may trap air underneath, reducing its strength."
• "A few miles out from Kansas City, Missouri State, on a pleasant plain sloping off toward a murmuring stream, a branch of the mighty river, early in the spring of 1856, stood a rambling frame house two stories high, surrounded with piazzas, over which trailed grape-vines, clematis and Virginia creepers."
• "Second, an obliquity of the interior part of the brain or skull -- in fact, a continuation upward of what is usually termed a sloping forehead; third, a distinct lessening of the posterior cerebral lobes, so that, as in the lower animals, they are not large enough to hide the cerebellum."