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Slide   /slaɪd/   Listen
noun
Slide  n.  
1.
The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice.
2.
Smooth, even passage or progress. "A better slide into their business."
3.
That on which anything moves by sliding. Specifically:
(a)
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.
(b)
A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement.
4.
That which operates by sliding. Specifically:
(a)
A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it.
(b)
(Mach.) A moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides.
(c)
A clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like.
5.
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.
6.
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.
7.
(Geol.) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
8.
(Mus.)
(a)
A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
(b)
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.
9.
(Phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
10.
(Steam Engine)
(a)
Same as Guide bar, under Guide.
(b)
A slide valve.
Slide box (Steam Engine), a steam chest. See under Steam.
Slide lathe, an engine lathe. See under Lathe.
Slide rail, a transfer table. See under Transfer.
Slide rest (Turning lathes), a contrivance for holding, moving, and guiding, the cutting tool, made to slide on ways or guides by screws or otherwise, and having compound motion.
Slide rule, a mathematical instrument consisting of two parts, one of which slides upon the other, for the mechanical performance of addition and subtraction, and, by means of logarithmic scales, of multiplication and division.
Slide valve.
(a)
Any valve which opens and closes a passageway by sliding over a port.
(b)
A particular kind of sliding valve, often used in steam engines for admitting steam to the piston and releasing it, alternately, having a cuplike cavity in its face, through which the exhaust steam passes. It is situated in the steam chest, and moved by the valve gear. It is sometimes called a D valve, a name which is also applied to a semicylindrical pipe used as a sliding valve.


verb
Slide  v. t.  (past slid; past part. slidden; pres. part. slidding)  
1.
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.
2.
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. "They bathe in summer, and in winter slide."
3.
To pass inadvertently. "Beware thou slide not by it."
4.
To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat slides through the water. "Ages shall slide away without perceiving." "Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole."
5.
To slip when walking or standing; to fall. "Their foot shall slide in due time."
6.
(Mus.) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.
7.
To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence. (Obs. or Colloq.) "With good hope let he sorrow slide." "With a calm carelessness letting everything slide."


Slide  v. t.  (past slid; past part. slidden; pres. part. slidding)  
1.
To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another.
2.
To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.





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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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