A few yards below the brow of the hill on which he paused a team of horses made its appearance, having reached the place by dint of half an hour's serpentine progress from the bottom of the immense declivity.
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Declivity
//dɪˈklɪvɪti//
Synonyms for "declivity" (19 found)
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27 translations across 14 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- наклон надолу noun (downward slope)
Catalan
3 entries- baixada noun (downward bend in a path)
- declivi noun (downward slope)
- declivi noun (downward bend in a path)
Esperanto
1 entries- deklivo noun (downward slope)
Finnish
4 entries- alamäki noun (downward slope)
- alamäki noun (downward bend in a path)
- lasku noun (downward slope)
- lasku noun (downward bend in a path)
French
1 entries- déclivité noun (downward slope)
Galician
2 entries- baixada noun (downward slope)
- baixada noun (downward bend in a path)
Greek
2 entries- κατηφόρα noun (downward bend in a path)
- κατωφέρεια noun (downward slope)
Italian
2 entries- declivio noun (downward slope)
- declivio noun (downward bend in a path)
Kikuyu
1 entries- mũikũrũko noun (downward slope)
Romanian
2 entries- caracter abrupt noun (downward slope)
- înclinație mare noun (downward slope)
Russian
2 entries- отко́с noun (downward slope)
- склон noun (downward slope)
Spanish
4 entries- bajada noun (downward slope)
- bajada noun (downward bend in a path)
- declive noun (downward slope)
- declividad noun (downward slope)
Tibetan
1 entries- ཐུར་གསེག noun (downward slope)
Venetan
1 entries- còsta noun (downward slope)
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The Declivity was ſo ſmall, that I walked near a mile before I got to the Shore, which I conjectur'd was about eight a-clock in the Evening.
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1780, Theodore Augustine Mann, A Treatise on Rivers and Canals, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume 69: For the Year 1779, Part II, 582, The velocity of flowing waters is very far from being in proportion to the quantity of declivity in their bed: […] .
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[…]whoever takes the trouble of observing how the water runs longitudinally in the ruts on a convex road, although the declivity down the sides be incomparably greater than in the direction which it is compelled to take in the ruts, will soon see the propriety of constructing roads so as to have the water rim length-ways upon them, instead of attempting to gain a declivity, by making it run from the middle to the sides.
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