incline

Etymology

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).

verb

1. (transitive) To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.
   He had to incline his body against the gusts to avoid being blown down in the storm.
   The people following the coffin inclined their heads in grief.
2. (intransitive) To slope.
   Over the centuries the wind made the walls of the farmhouse incline.
3. (chiefly intransitive, chiefly passive) To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view, attitude, etc.
   He inclines to believe anything he reads in the newspapers.
   I'm inclined to give up smoking after hearing of the risks to my health.
   The terp farmer made use of the plough, as is shown by the discovery of three ploughshares and four coulters. […] Those who inclined to the stock-breeding theory based their arguments on the absence of ploughs, […]. 1966, J. M. G. van der Poel, "Agriculture in Pre- and Protohistoric Times", in the Acta Historiae Neerlandica published by the Netherlands Committee of Historical Sciences, p.170

noun

1. A slope.
   To reach the building, we had to climb a steep incline.
2. A portal of a subway tunnel.
   the Pleasant Street Incline