[
US
/ˈɪnkɫaɪn, ˌɪnˈkɫaɪn/
]
VERB
-
be at an angle
The terrain sloped down -
lower or bend (the head or upper body), as in a nod or bow
She inclined her head to the student -
feel favorably disposed or willing
She inclines to the view that people should be allowed to expres their religious beliefs -
have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
These dresses run small
He inclined to corpulence
She tends to be nervous before her lectures -
make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief
Their language inclines us to believe them -
bend or turn (one's ear) towards a speaker in order to listen well
He inclined his ear to the wise old man
NOUN
- an inclined surface connecting two levels
-
an elevated geological formation
he climbed the steep slope
the house was built on the side of a mountain
How To Use incline In A Sentence
- I am inclined to think, old boy, that there is a good deal of what they call the chump about me. Old Ebenezer
- It has both a vertical shaft and an adit to an incline, which we and several mine officials entered in a small bus.
- The jagged rock he'd sought was three feet up the incline, inviting, tantalizing him with its nearness.
- After a time, however, they began to think that he was what they called too “viewy,” too much inclined to paradox, too wild. The Adventure of Living
- We only walked for four hours today because of the intense heat and steep incline. The Sun
- If it has attractive art and nice looking parts I'm much more inclined to give it a try.
- He's inclined to spit when he talks quickly.
- But the slave, perceiving that the zamorin seemed inclined to deal favourably with them, went to the cady or chief priest of the Mahometans, and told him all that he had said to the zamorin, adding that the two Christians had disclosed all their secrets to the Portuguese. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
- The finely detailed, louvred, inclined plane presenting an alternative to the typical suburban facades. NSW Architecture Awards Announced: Gorgeous Oz-chitecture | Inhabitat
- He had witnessed diminutive bison with semicircular horns; animals "of a bluish lead color, about the size of a goat, with a head and beard like him, and a single horn, slightly inclined forward from the perpendicular"; and "a strange amphibious creature, of a spherical form, which rolled with great velocity across the pebbly beach" of a lunar island. Kim Kardashian Fails the P.T. Barnum Test
