What's the difference between landslip and slope?

Landslip


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Landslide

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Around 10 homes in Old Sodbury, south Gloucestershire, were evacuated following a landslip.
  • (2) Here the two waterfalls can cause small landslips, so do take care crossing them.
  • (3) Ben Bradshaw, the Labour MP for Exeter, tweeted: "Just got worse: Landslip shuts Waterloo line at Crewkerne – no trains at all in or out of the West Country.
  • (4) A landslip disrupted trains in the Glazebrook area, near Warrington.
  • (5) Flooding near Long Eaton meant services between Derby and Nottingham were suspended, while a landslip is affecting journeys between Liverpool and Manchester.
  • (6) Passengers on the derailed train were on their way to work at Sellafield when it ran into the landslip at 6.45am.
  • (7) National Rail said the heavy rain caused flooding and landslips.
  • (8) He looked just as you’d imagine: face like a landslip, baleful raisin eyes.
  • (9) Three weeks ago, the landslip at Harbury in Warwickshire shut the main link between Manchester, Birmingham and the south, and the route between Birmingham and London Marylebone.
  • (10) PC Rodger Clark of Dorset police said the landslip happened after England, and especially the south-west, experienced the wettest summer in 100 years with the Beaminster area receiving between 100mm and 125mm of rain in the 24 hours before the incident.
  • (11) It is a well-known geographical fact, if you cut down trees or vegetation on a slope of more than 45 degrees, you are going to get some kind of landslip movement."
  • (12) It has been blocked by floodwater and landslips and travellers have had to make do with a replacement bus service.
  • (13) The southern city of 120,000 people was cut off by road after major landslips blocked access.
  • (14) The diversionary route via Yeovil is closed at Crewkerne because of a landslip and is expected to remain shut for up to a week.
  • (15) He said a small landslip was inspected on the southern side of the tunnel in 2009 but was deemed to be only surface soil movement with no danger of a full landslide happening.
  • (16) The scientists were reluctant to translate this into concrete warnings over the frequency of floods, because floods depend on local factors such as topography, but said floods, mudslides and landslips are associated with stronger rainfall punctuated by drier spells.
  • (17) Train services to and from the West Country were halted after a fresh landslip at Castle Carey in Somerset blocked the line to Exeter, adding to disruption caused by track being washed away in Dawlish, Devon, in a previous storm.
  • (18) On the railways, a landslip at Teignmouth and flooding hit other services in the south-west with rail companies warning that replacement bus services may be limited and themselves affected by flooding of local roads.
  • (19) The aftershocks have continued all week and relentless rain in the first few days has caused innumerable landslips.
  • (20) A terrace of five Victorian houses is to be demolished on Thursday in the North Yorkshire port of Whitby after a landslip of saturated ground threatened its foundations.

Slope


Definition:

  • (v. i.) An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.
  • (v. i.) Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.
  • (a.) Sloping.
  • (adv.) In a sloping manner.
  • (v. t.) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.
  • (v. i.) To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.
  • (v. i.) To depart; to disappear suddenly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this review, we demonstrate that serum creatinine does not provide an adequate estimate of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and contrary to recent teachings, that the slope of the reciprocal of serum creatinine vs time does not permit an accurate assessment of the rate of progression of renal disease.
  • (2) Regression curves indicate that although all three types of pulmonary edema can be characterized by slightly different slopes, the differences are statistically insignificant.
  • (3) With profound blockade, the slope of the edrophonium dose-response relationship was significantly flatter (P less than 0.05) than that of neostigmine.
  • (4) The slope of the thermal inactivation curve of enterotoxin A in beef bouillon (initial pH 6.2) was found to be approximately 27.8 C (50 F) with three different concentrations of toxin.
  • (5) The summary statistics examined are (a) the slope of the least-squares regression of the marker, (b) the average of the last r measurements, and (c) the difference between the averages of the last r and the first s measurements.
  • (6) A patient with mitral stenosis and atrial flutter was found to have a normal diastolic closure rate (E to F slope).
  • (7) With cortisol and cortisol-21-aldehyde, product inhibition patterns showed only slope effects with steroid product and NAD+, suggesting a "random" mechanism.
  • (8) A positive correlation was found between the content in the eluted cell fractions of LH and dynorphin-like immunoreactivity with a correlation coefficient and a slope of the regression line close to one.
  • (9) From the stress-strain curve the following values were selected: strain, stress, and slope at 80 mmHg equivalent pressure (1 mmHg = 133.3 Pa); maximum stress, strain, and slope; and breaking stress, strain, and slope if the sample broke.
  • (10) When age and smoking habits were controlled for, slope of phase III was significantly related to hospitalization due to respiratory disease in general and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), whereas closing volume and closing capacity were marginally related to hospitalization due to respiratory disease in general but not to hospitalization due to COPD.
  • (11) To evaluate threshold estimates under these conditions, computer simulations of experiments with small numbers of trials were performed by using psychometric functions based on a model of two types of noise: stimulus-related noise (affecting slope) and extraneous noise (affecting upper asymptote).
  • (12) It is shown that when a constant current is applied such that a stable equilibrium and rhythmic firing are present, the following predictions are inherent in the HH system of equations: (a) Small instantaneous voltage perturbations to the axon given at points along its firing spike result in phase resetting curves (when new phase versus old phase is plotted) with an average slope of 1.
  • (13) A "peeling" technique was used to estimate the time constants (tau 0 and tau 1) and coefficients (a0 and a1) of the first two exponential terms of the series of exponential terms whose sum represented the slope of the voltage response.
  • (14) No significant correlation was found between the pulmonary valve e-f slope and the pulmonary artery pressures.
  • (15) We should be grateful the School Food Trust has established this now, before we end up falling down a slippery slope back towards the dreaded Turkey Twizzler that Jamie Oliver campaigned to banish," he added.
  • (16) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
  • (17) The slope of Phase III in both N2 and He washouts was influenced in an inconstant fashion, probably reflecting differing contributions from topographic and intraregional inhomogeneities of ventilation in these subjects.
  • (18) The slope of this line was substantially steeper than the regression line slope for treadmill running.4.
  • (19) Pulmonary mean filling pressure increased and the slope-gradient of pulmonary VR-curve decreased, indicating an increased resistance to venous return from the pulmonary circulation.
  • (20) It is suggested that the measurement of functional residual capacity, closing volume, and the slope of the alveolar plateau (phase III in the single breath nitrogen washout technique) might give more valuable information.

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