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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



... and see the people in the meadows and fields making hay or cutting grain! Haymakers may drink the water that was an hour before part of the mass of ice and snow which they see hanging near the top of the mountains several thousand feet above their heads! Avalanches slide down into the valleys every month of the year, and I passed through tunnels and bridges that are purposely constructed that the snow may thus slide over the roads without doing harm to any one. Where the mountains rise too precipitously, it is in some places impossible to construct a road along ...
— The Youthful Wanderer - An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany • George H. Heffner
... of speech which is the outwork in a line of fortifications in which a girl's tenacity to her own ideal of chastity must be the final bulwark, A frankness of speech prevails in the Philippines with regard to matters about which we are frank under necessity, but which, as far as possible, we slide into the background. Stories are told in the presence of young girls, and jokes are interchanged, of more than questionable nature according to our standards. Our prudery of speech is the natural result ...
— A Woman's Impression of the Philippines • Mary Helen Fee
... near the flame again, but he would sometimes put it in fun toward the flame without touching it, and he even (eighteen months old) carried a stick of wood of his own accord to the stove-door and pushed it in through the open slide, with a proud look at his parents. There is surely something ...
— The Mind of the Child, Part II • W. Preyer
... house near the Crawford Notch was the Willey House, in which the family were living. A week before a slide had come down by the side of the house and obstructed the road. Mr. Willey and two men came to our assistance, taking out the horse and lifting the ...
— Memories and Anecdotes • Kate Sanborn
... not know what was coming, and saw the galley door slide shut with a bang. Then I saw Henderson leaping like a madman for the main rigging, up which he shot, on the inside, till he was many feet higher than my head. Also I saw a great wave, curling and foaming, poised far above the rail. I was directly under it. My mind did not ...
— The Sea-Wolf • Jack London


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