incline

Meanings

Verb

• To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.
• To slope.
• To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view, attitude, etc.

Noun

• A slope.

Origin

• From Middle English enclinen, from Old French encliner (modern incliner), from Latin inclīnō ("incline, tilt"), from in- + clīnō (compare -cline), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (English lean).