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Definition of 'Slide'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) slide
to move along in continuous contact with a smooth or slippery surface.

2.  slide
to slip or skid.

3.  slide
to glide or pass smoothly.

4.  slide
to slip easily or unobtrusively on or as if on a track (usu. fol. by in, out, etc.).

5.  slide
to pass or fall gradually into a specified state, character, practice, etc.

6.  slide
to decline or decrease.

7.  slide
to pursue a natural course without intervention:
to let a matter slide.

8.  slide
Baseball. (of a base runner) to cast oneself forward along the ground towards a base.

9. (v.t.) slide
to cause to slide or coast, as over a surface or with a smooth, gliding motion.

10.  slide
to hand, pass along, or slip (something) easily or quietly (usu. fol. by in, into, etc.).

11. (n.) slide
an act or instance of sliding.

12.  slide
a smooth surface for sliding on, esp. a type of chute in a playground.

13.  slide
an object intended to slide.

14.  slide
a landslide or the like.

15.  slide
the mass of matter sliding down.

16.  slide
a transparency, as a frame of positive film, mounted for projection on a screen or magnification through a viewer.

17.  slide
a usu. rectangular plate of glass on which objects are placed for microscopic examination.

18.  slide
a shelf sliding into the body of a piece of furniture when not in use.

19.  slide
a

20.  slide
(of a machine, mechanism, or device)

21.  slide
a moving part working on a track or channel .

22.  slide
the surface, track, or channel on which the part moves.

Etymology: (1935–40)

Definition of 'Slide'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) slide, microscope slide
a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study

2. (noun) slide
(geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.

3. (noun) swoop, slide
(music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale
"the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides"

4. (noun) slide, playground slide, sliding board
plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide

5. (noun) slide, glide, coast
the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it
"his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill"; "the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope"

6. (noun) slide, lantern slide
a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector

7. (verb) chute, slide, slideway, sloping trough
sloping channel through which things can descend

8. (verb) skid, slip, slue, slew, slide
move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
"the wheels skidded against the sidewalk"

9. (verb) slither, slide
to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly
"They slid through the wicket in the big gate"

10. (verb) slide
move smoothly along a surface
"He slid the money over to the other gambler"

Definition of 'Slide'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) slide
to move smoothly across a surface
The car was sliding across the icy road.; She slid her finger across the cellphone screen.

2.  slide
to become worse
House prices slid to new lows.; They've let the quality of their products slide.

3.  slide
let it slide
to decide not to punish
I'll let it slide this time, but don't do it again.

4. (noun) slide
a sloping structure that children climb up and slide down
I want to go on the slide.

5.  slide
a situation in which sth becomes worse
the slide in employment numbers

6.  slide
a piece of film in a stiff frame that you shine a light through and view on a large screen
slides from their vacation

7.  slide
a thin piece of glass or plastic used for looking at things under a microscope
bacteria on the slide

Definition of 'Slide'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Slide
the act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice

2. (noun) Slide
smooth, even passage or progress

3. (noun) Slide
that on which anything moves by sliding

4. (noun) Slide
an inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, esp. one constructed on a mountain side for conveying logs by sliding them down

5. (noun) Slide
a surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement

6. (noun) Slide
that which operates by sliding

7. (noun) Slide
a cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it

8. (noun) Slide
a moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides

9. (noun) Slide
a clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like

10. (noun) Slide
a plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope

11. (noun) Slide
the descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide

12. (noun) Slide
a small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure

13. (noun) Slide
a grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below

14. (noun) Slide
an apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics

15. (noun) Slide
a sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound

16. (noun) Slide
same as Guide bar, under Guide

17. (noun) Slide
a slide valve

18. (verb) Slide
to move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side

19. (verb) Slide
especially, to move over snow or ice with a smooth, uninterrupted motion, as on a sled moving by the force of gravity, or on the feet

20. (verb) Slide
to pass inadvertently

21. (verb) Slide
to pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat slides through the water

22. (verb) Slide
to slip when walking or standing; to fall

23. (verb) Slide
to pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound

24. (verb) Slide
to pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence

25. (verb) Slide
to cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another

26. (verb) Slide
to pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question

Translation of 'Slide'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to (cause to) move or pass along smoothly He slid the drawer open; Children must not slide in the school corridors.
Afrikaans: ski, skuif, drentel	Arabic: يَنْزَلِق	Bulgarian: плъзгам (се)
Brazilian: escorregar	Czech: klouzat (se); (vy)sunout	German: schlittern
Danish: glide	Greek: γλιστρώ	Spanish: deslizar
Estonian: libistama, liugu laskma	Farsi: ليز خوردن	Finnish: liukua
French: (faire) glisser	Hebrew: לְהַחֲלִיק	Hindi: फिसलना
Croatian: kliziti, poskliznuti se	Hungarian: (meg)csúszik	Indonesian: meluncur
Icelandic: renna	Italian: scivolare	Japanese: すべる
Korean: 미끄러지게 하다	Lithuanian: slinkti, stumti, slidinėt	Latvian: slīdēt; slidināties; bīdī
Malay: meluncur	Dutch: (doen) glijden	Norwegian: gli, skyve; skli, rutsje
Polish: ślizgać (się)	Persian: ليز خوردن	Pashto: ښوييدل، كښيدل، ښوى تيريدل
Portuguese: (fazer) escorregar	Romanian: a aluneca, a face să alun	Russian: скользить, плавно двигать
Slovak: kĺzať sa, šmýkať sa; posu	Slovenian: drseti	Serbian: klizati se
Swedish: [låta] glida (kana, rutsc	Thai: ลื่น	Turkish: kay(dır)mak
Taiwanese: 滑動	Ukrainian: ковзати(ся)	Urdu: پھسلنا
Vietnamese: trượt, chuyển động nhẹ nh	Chinese: 滑动
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