(a.) Sloping upward; rising as a hillside; -- opposed to declivous.
Example Sentences:
(1) The HIP plane shows a slight tendency to acclivity towards the occlusal plane in the sagittal plane, but parallel is the occlusal plane closely in the frontal plane.
Hillside
Definition:
(n.) The side or declivity of a hill.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its few remaining mines involve people digging coal out of hillsides.
(2) Roberts was pronounced dead at 5.10pm on the hillside.
(3) During a five year period, idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis was diagnosed in nine patients 70 to 79 years of age and in 26 patients 20 to 66 years of age who were referred to the cardiology division of the Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center because of symptomatic heart disease.
(4) Hillsides denuded of trees for terraced farming plots are common.
(5) Look and listen out for Little owls hunting voles and mice and badgers crossing over the summit from a set on the hillside below.
(6) To self-described “militia members” sleeping in wind-whipped tents, drinking camp coffee and patrolling rocky hillsides with military-style weapons, protecting Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his family from an overreaching federal government is a patriotic duty .
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The remote Heydalur hot pot in the Westfjords Eventually the hotel Heydalur (doubles from £59) appears, a hillside of random outbuildings.
(8) The ventilatory capacity of the more active children, including those who have lived all their lives in squatter huts on the hillsides, is on average 8 per cent larger than for the inactive children including those who have lived all their lives in tenement flats with lifts.
(9) A fter several hours walking along stark cliffs and ridges, I come down a hillside dotted with white asphodels and find myself on an untrodden beach.
(10) In June he and his team were looking at the steep hillsides around the village of Glogova, where remains had been tipped out of trucks and allowed to roll down a gorge.
(11) Friends and pilgrims visited and took home with them something of the hillside.
(12) Now, after decades of remaining quietly out of the national spotlight, the gentle hillsides and country lanes of the Yorkshire Wolds are preparing for a deluge of attention brought on by interest in David Hockney's latest paintings.
(13) Ancient towns and wooded hillsides looked gorgeous reflected in the blue water, but we were beguiled just as much by the people.
(14) The crew had been shooting all day on a deserted hillside when at 4pm the extras suddenly disappeared.
(15) On the night of 7 April 2010, Luciano Machado was doing electrical work on a roof in the hillside favela Morro do Bumba.
(16) They own five properties dotted over the Sea Point hillside, and you can’t miss Themba, their friendly manager, who ferries guests around in a bright red tuk-tuk.
(17) Hillsides are bereft of trees, leaving communities such as hers increasingly vulnerable to floods and landslides.
(18) The hillsides of the West Bank are rustling with industry.
(19) Tree cover is restricted to small patches along streams and some hillsides; there are euphorbia hedges and scattered trees in rural communities and along roadsides.
(20) Deciduous trees growing in a natural forest on the hillsides downslope from the site were sampled for the presence of tritiated water in sap of maple trees and in leaf water extracted from oak and hickory trees.