Definitions for incline

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incline in·cline

Spelling: [verb in-klahyn; noun in-klahyn, in- Incline is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in incline (ceiilnn).

Definitions for incline

noun

1. an inclined surface; slope; slant.
2. Railroads. Also called inclined plane, incline plane. a cable railroad, the gradient of which is approximately 45°. any railroad or portion of a railroad, the gradient of which is too steep for ordinary locomotive adhesion alone to be effective.
3. Mining. an angled shaft following a dipping vein. an inclined haulageway.

Idioms

1. incline one's ear, to listen, especially willingly or favorably:

verb (used with object)

1. to deviate from the vertical or horizontal; slant.
2. to have a mental tendency, preference, etc.; be disposed:
3. to tend, in a physical sense; approximate:
4. to tend in character or in course of action:
5. to lean; bend.
6. to dispose (a person) in mind, habit, etc. (usually followed by to):
7. to bow, nod, or bend (the head, body, etc.):
8. to cause to lean or bend in a particular direction.

Origin of incline

1300-50; Middle English inclinen Latin inclīnāre, equivalent to in- in-² + -clīnāre to bend (see lean¹); replacing Middle

Examples for incline

Instead, try Hollywood Road for gorgeous local treasures and even a tasteful Mao head if you so incline.

I incline very much to doubt that I should do it in any event, Mr. Duncan.

Unnervingly, several Turkish tanks in a 30-strong formation on the side of an incline have their guns pointing into Turkey.

To avoid slipping down the incline she clung to the young man's neck.

And I incline to the belief that they of all bards have sung best the song of love.

Many motives conspired to incline Selina to accept of the invitation.

The water appeared to be running down an incline of about twenty degrees.

It would have been as easy for quicksilver to remain at the top of an incline.

This indifference of his to London, I cannot but say, made me incline the more to go thither.

You then incline to the doctrine of Mr. Blunt, Miss Effingham?