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Incline   /ɪnklˈaɪn/  /ˈɪnklaɪn/   Listen
Incline

noun
1.
An elevated geological formation.  Synonyms: side, slope.  "The house was built on the side of a mountain"
2.
An inclined surface connecting two levels.  Synonym: ramp.
verb
(past & past part. inclined; pres. part. inclining)
1.
Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined.  Synonyms: be given, lean, run, tend.  "These dresses run small" , "He inclined to corpulence"
2.
Bend or turn (one's ear) towards a speaker in order to listen well.
3.
Lower or bend (the head or upper body), as in a nod or bow.
4.
Be at an angle.  Synonyms: pitch, slope.
5.
Feel favorably disposed or willing.
6.
Make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief.  Synonym: dispose.  Antonym: indispose.



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"Incline" Quotes from Famous Books



... On an incline over which a road wound he saw wild and desperate rushes of men perpetually backward and forward in riotous surges. These parts of the opposing armies were two long waves that pitched upon each other madly at dictated ...
— The Red Badge of Courage - An Episode of the American Civil War • Stephen Crane

... point we wished to arrive at, into which harbor we expected to be put safely—three hundred and odd miles from Halifax, and this side of Sydney about sixty-two miles by sea. To all this did captain Capstan "seriously incline," and the result was, two berths in the "Balaklava," several cans of preserved meats and soups, a hamper of ale, two bottles of Scotch whisky, a ramshackle, Halifax van for the luggage, a general shaking of hands at departure, and ...
— Acadia - or, A Month with the Blue Noses • Frederic S. Cozzens

... and Britons who were quartered upon, and greatly oppressed, the people. This apparent weakness, together with the grievances occasioned by a foreign force, might co-operate with the king's remonstrance, and better incline the nobility to listen to his proposals for putting them in a position of defence. For, as soon as the danger was over, the king held a great council to inquire into the state of the nation, the immediate consequence ...
— Landholding In England • Joseph Fisher

... and summon the multitudes into the wilderness to hear the preaching of repentance and the remission of sins. But they had some lamentable results. Those who, like many among the Methodists,[241:1] found in them the direct work of the Holy Spirit, were thereby started along the perilous incline toward enthusiasm and fanaticism. Those, on the other hand, repelled by the grotesqueness and extravagance of these manifestations, who were led to distrust or condemn the good work with which they were associated, fell into a graver error. This was the ...
— A History of American Christianity • Leonard Woolsey Bacon

... regions is slight, but the expansion behind, in the region of the heels, is distinct, commencing gradually in front, becoming stronger, and diminishing again posteriorly. The coronary edge of the heels becomes slightly bulged outwards. The bulbs of the heels swell up and incline ...
— Diseases of the Horse's Foot • Harry Caulton Reeks


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