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/ɪnklˈaɪn/ /ˈɪnklaɪn/ Listen

noun

Incline n. An inclined plane; an ascent or descent; a grade or gradient; a slope.

verb

Incline v. t.

To cause to deviate from a line, position, or direction; to give a leaning, bend, or slope to; as, incline the column or post to the east; incline your head to the right. "Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear."

To impart a tendency or propensity to, as to the will or affections; to turn; to dispose; to influence. "Incline my heart unto thy testimonies." "Incline our hearts to keep this law."

To bend; to cause to stoop or bow; as, to incline the head or the body in acts of reverence or civility. "With due respect my body I inclined."

Incline v. i. (past & past part. inclined; pres. part. inclining)

To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south.

Fig.: To lean or tend, in an intellectual or moral sense; to favor an opinion, a course of conduct, or a person; to have a propensity or inclination; to be disposed. "Their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech." "Power finds its balance, giddy motions cease In both the scales, and each inclines to peace."

To bow; to incline the head.

Synonyms: To lean; slope; slant; tend; bend.

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"Incline" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the first, to which a rather different role was assigned—should be of equal height. But their length and width differed in proportion to their height in the building. The continual shortening of the distance within which the incline had to be packed, would, if we suppose each ramp confined to one side of the tower, have required the slope to become steeper with each story. Such a want of parallelism would have been very ugly, and there was but one means of avoiding it, and that was to continue the ramps nearly to ...

— A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria, v. 1 • Georges Perrot

... of the grounds was a fairly steep incline and on this we made a short toboggan run, banking the snow up steeply at the turn to avoid going through the barbed wire. In many instances it must have been amusing to watch a small sleigh being ...

— 'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany • Gerald Featherstone Knight

... Garnet didn't mean—you say, does Jeff-Jack hold that key? He was holding it the last time I saw him! O yes. Even according to your meaning he thinks he holds it, and he thinks he ought to. I don't think he ought to, and incline to believe he won't! Lift your miserable head!" he cried to his horse, spurred fiercely, and jerked the curb till the animal reared and plunged. When he laughed ...

— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable

... severely alone; but whether from a doubt as to the legality of distraining upon the goods of a lodger, or from a certainty as to the lodger's goods including claws and a beak, naturalists do not say. Personally, I incline very much to the claw-and-beak theory, having seen an owl kill a snake in a very neat and workmanlike manner; and, indeed, the rattlesnake sometimes catches a Tartar even in ...

— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various

... I began, "I knew it wasn't your bag, because you said it wasn't. But I did incline a little to the 'woman visitor' theory, and now that is destroyed. I think we must conclude that the bag was brought here by the person who found it on that ...

— The Gold Bag • Carolyn Wells

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