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Slide   /slaɪd/   Listen
Slide

noun
1.
A small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study.  Synonym: microscope slide.
2.
(geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc..
3.
(music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale.  Synonym: swoop.
4.
Plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide.  Synonyms: playground slide, sliding board.
5.
The act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it.  Synonyms: coast, glide.  "The children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope"
6.
A transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector.  Synonym: lantern slide.
7.
Sloping channel through which things can descend.  Synonyms: chute, slideway, sloping trough.
verb
(past slid; past part. slidden; pres. part. slidding)
1.
Move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner.  Synonyms: skid, slew, slip, slue.
2.
To pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly.  Synonym: slither.
3.
Move smoothly along a surface.



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"Slide" Quotes from Famous Books



... saddled horses waiting to take us to the foot of the cone. After a short ride we reached it, and dismounted, and started up. The cone is so steep, and covered with cinders, that people that are unaccustomed to such walking can't get up it without assistance, because every step you take you slide back several inches. We thought we would be pulled up by the guides, but the rest of the party got tired, and had to be carried on their shoulders. I managed to walk nearly all the way, and when I got tired ...
— Harper's Young People, August 3, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... me to be obsessed with Jevons's illness, and I made her come out with me for ten minutes for a blow on the Heath. I tried to lead her mind to other things, and she listened politely. Then there was silence, and presently I felt her arm slide into mine (she had these adorable impulses ...
— The Belfry • May Sinclair
... cannonading, musketading; and seemingly no end to it. Ferdinand himself came over to ascertain; found it a hot thing indeed. Zastrow had to relieve his 200 every hour: 'Don't go down in rank, you new ones,' ordered he—'slide, leap, descend the hill-face in scattered form: rank at the bottom!'—and generally about half of the old 200 were left dead or lamed by their hour's work. 'They intend to have this Bridge from us ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XX. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle
... and Jane Carpenter met me at the top of the stairs, and said they wanted to slide down the banisters and would do it if I went first. I told them that it was against the rules, but they said that did not matter; and as they are older than I am, I allowed myself to be ...
— An Unsocial Socialist • George Bernard Shaw
... this machine-shop was built from his own memories of the original. He didn't know that this Betty was of the same origin—a miraculous fabrication of metal and energy-units and soft plastic. The trees outside were only lantern-slide illusions. ...
— The Eternal Wall • Raymond Zinke Gallun


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