sliden.
/slʌɪd/, U.S. /slaɪd/ I. An act of sliding, and related uses.
1.
a. The act or fact of sliding; an instance of this; also, the manner in which a thing slides.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [noun] > slipping or sliding > an act of
slide1596
slip1596
slither1861
skid1907
1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. F3 As some travel-tired passenger..Sits downe to view the sight-reviving slide, The wanton-bubling waters gentle glide.
1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. D1v You may publish your suit..with the slide of your cloake from the one shoulder.
1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World ii. 58 My third Lieutenant, broke his leg by a slide on the deck.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xi. 78 The edge of the precipice, to which less than a quarter of a minute's slide would carry us.
1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion iii. i The bubble and slide of the rill Is heard.
b. figurative in various applications.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [noun]
misnimming?c1225
errora1340
defaulta1387
balkc1430
fault1523
jeofail1546
errat1548
trip1548
naught1557
missa1568
missinga1568
slide1570
snappera1572
amiss1576
mistaking1579
misprize1590
mistake1600
berry-block1603
solecism1603
fallibility1608
stumblea1612
blota1657
slur1662
incorrectnessa1771
bumble1823
skew1869
(to make) a false step1875
slip-up1909
ricket1958
bad1981
1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xvi. 23 Sen he hes maid sa mony slydis Trow ȝe he can be trew?
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 36 Kings that have able men of their Nobility, shal find ease in imploying them, and a better slid in to their businesse.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) xl. 238 Like Homers Verses, that haue a Slide, and Easinesse, more then the Verses of other Poets.
1833 T. Hook Parson's Daughter III. vii. 169 Thence, by a graceful slide down the family-tree, her ladyship traced out the consanguinity.
c. Music. A kind of grace (see quots.); also = portamento n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > ornament > [noun] > portamento
portamento1771
slide1818
scoop1911
1818 T. Busby Gram. Music 152 The Slide, a grace in very frequent use. It generally consists of two notes gradually ascending or descending to the note it is intended to ornament; and to which it is attached by a curve.
1881 Grove's Dict. Music III. 534 Slide,..an ornament frequently met with in both vocal and instrumental music, although its English name has fallen into disuse. It consists of a rapid diatonic progression of three notes, either ascending or descending, of which the principal note, or note to be ornamented, is the third, and the other two are grace-notes.
1908 Grove's Dict. Music (ed. 2) IV. 482/1 To violinists the ‘slide’ is one of the principal vehicles of expression, at the same time a means of passing from one note to another at a distance.
1913 F. Thistleton Mod. Violin Technique xv. 74 The slide is one of the principal mediums of expression on the violin.
1938 L. Tertis Beauty of Tone in String Playing 14 The celerity with which this is done is the secret of discreet natural portamento... There must be no drawling, languishing, or lingering in the action of the slide.
d. figurative. A rapid decline; a downturn. Also in on the slide.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [noun]
damage1300
declinea1327
ebbc1400
mischange1561
dotage1606
failancea1627
fallback1830
downgrade1857
slide1884
1884 Gladstone in Spectator 16 Feb. 220/1 When I saw his mind shaken and, so to speak, on the slide.
1931 Economist 14 Mar. 569/2 Unsatisfactory traffics, and the passing of the B.A. Great Western dividend, accentuated the ‘slide’ of prices.
1969 N. Cohn Pop from Beginning ix. 86 He began to flag. By early 1964, he was definitely on the slide.
1981 Times 5 May 18/1 A 20 per cent slide in profits at the half-way stage.
e. Baseball. A plunging or sliding approach made to a base along the ground.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > base-playing or running > actions
base-stealing1876
slide1886
fallaway1909
pinch-running1915
safety squeeze1922
suicide squeeze1937
1886 H. Chadwick Art of Batting & Base Running 68 A slide in time saves an out.
1912 C. Mathewson Pitching Illustr. facing p. 214 This picture illustrates how easily the base runner, with his deceptive slide, can get away from the catcher.
1929 Encycl. Brit. III. 167/1 Slide, plunge by base runner along the ground to make the next base or return to one held.
1934 Baseball Mag. Apr. 497/2 Chapman has a natural talent as a base stealer... He knows how..to make a perfect slide.
1944 E. Allen Major League Baseball xv. 204 There are four types of slides: the hook slide, the bent leg slide, the feet first slide and the head first slide.
1972 J. Mosedale Football iii. 32 He stretched it into a triple with a daring slide [contextually in Baseball].
f. Surfing. A ride across the face of a wave (see quot. 1963); a wave suitable for this.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > other
way1578
wake1753
clean, clear breach1867
feather-spray1867
south-western1872
bow-wave1877
gravity wave1877
blind roller1888
gravitational wave1899
Kelvin wave1922
rooster tail1934
slide1935
bow shock1938
beacher1956
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > actions of surfer
kick-out1801
ride1883
side-slip1913
surf1917
slide1935
pull-out1957
quasimodo1960
head dip1962
nose-riding1962
rolling1962
spinner1962
stalling1962
toes over1962
cutback1963
Eskimo roll1964
re-entry1968
right1968
rollercoaster1968
barrel roll1971
hold-down1982
railing1983
cross-stepping1990
cross-step1994
turtle roll2001
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > types or parts of wave
pounder1927
dumper1933
take-off1935
greeny1940
beach break1954
beacher1956
big kahuna1959
greenback1959
close out1962
curl1962
shore break1962
shoulder1962
soup1962
tube1962
wall1962
face1963
peak1963
pipeline1963
set1963
reef break1965
surfable wave1965
point break1966
green room1968
slide1968
barrel1975
left-hander1980
A-frame1992
1935 D. Kahanomoku in T. Blake Hawaiian Surfboard i. 32 (caption) A fine illustration of the slide. The wave is coming on while the rider is sliding left across the face of the swell.
1946 J. H. Ball Scrapbk. Surfriding & Beach Stuff vi. 57 (caption) Tom Blake streaking along on a long belly slide.
1963 S. Szabados in J. Pollard Austral. Surfrider ii. 20/1 A ‘slide’ can be either ‘left’ or ‘right’, angling down the wave to one side or the other.
1968 Surfer Jan. 47/3 Ten-foot waves that peel off in good right and left slides.
g. Curling. A delivery in which a curler slides some distance forward in launching his stone.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > curling > [noun] > types of shot or delivery
inring1789
outwick1805
inwick1820
wick1823
witter shot1823
outring1824
inturn1890
out-turn1890
stug1897
draw1902
draw shot1902
in-curl1903
out-curl1903
long slide1936
slide1950
peel1984
1950 K. Watson Curling i. 42 By delivering the stone at the end of a long slide, a player could be more accurate in delivery.
1962 Canada Month Apr. 26/3 The west..introduced the long slide now about twice the distance the old-style curler slides before launching his stone.
1969 R. Welsh Beginner's Guide Curling xii. 85 The delivery called the ‘Slide’ or the ‘Long Slide’ was introduced by Canadian curlers.
h. Jazz. = glissando n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > ornament > [noun] > glissando
rip1869
glissando1873
gliss1926
smear1926
slide1959
1959 ‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene 289 Technical terms either duplicate existing, but unfamiliar, ones—e.g. slide, smear, for glissando..or they describe things for which no proper academic equivalent exists.
1973 Black World Nov. 48/1 Performance practices require a ‘slur’ and/or ‘slide’ when moving from tone to tone.
2.
a. An earth-slip, a landslip, an avalanche; a place on a hillside, etc., where this has happened.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > movement of material > [noun] > movement under gravity or water
land-rushc1550
slide1664
landslip1679
pitting1686
rockfall?1797
shoot1820
landslide1822
run1827
mountain slide1830
slip1838
slough1838
mudslide1848
founder1882
creep1889
soil-creep1897
rock creep1902
slump1905
solifluction1906
slumping1907
slopewash1938
sludging1946
mass wasting1951
the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [noun] > of rocks or detritus
shot-heuch1574
slide1664
scree1813
shot-brae1822
earthslide1829
talus1830
slip1838
rockslide1845
earthslip1859
landslip1872
spout1883
shingle-slip1900
slump1905
stone stripe1934
shingle slide1944
1664 Maldon Borough Deeds (Bundle 151 f. 1) [To] amend and restore all such slides, decayes, or breaches, of and in the calcway.
1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein I. ii. 37 He..was led..to believe that this rock marked the farthest extent of the slip or slide of earth.
1861 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner xxxi. 359 It proved to be not so much a slide as the breaking off and falling of a vast line of cliff.
1900 Jrnl. School Geogr. (U.S.) Apr. 157 Immediately following this tremendous slide came a crowd of people rushing in every direction.
b. A sliding mass or stretch of water.
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the world > the earth > water > body of water > moving water > [noun]
quicka1300
backwatera1387
main flood?1556
main tide1605
confluence1615
swash1671
flow1802
sweep1816
water slide1824
slide1869
run-off1915
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. vii. 81 I stood at the foot of a long pale slide of water.
3. Mining.
a. A fracture in a lode resulting in the dislocation or displacement of a portion of it; a vein of clay, etc., marking such dislocation.
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral structure or appearance > [noun] > cleavage or fracture
slide1778
back1807
cleavage1830
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 82 That fracture which we call a slide or heave.
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 83 The slide or heave of the Lode manifests the greater subsidence of the Strata.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 316 Clay veins; of which there are two sets, the more ancient, called Cross-Fluckans; and the more modern, called Slides.
1865 J. T. F. Turner Familiar Descr. Old Delabole Slate Quarries 23 Walls of hardah..are dreaded, because they are generally accompanied by slides, which dip precipitously from east to west.
1890 Argus (Melbourne) 16 June 6/1 Every main reef is cut by a slide dipping from west to east.
b. Matter dislodged by an earth-slip.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > [noun] > dislodged soil
slide1841
sloughing1897
soliflual1941
1841 J. G. Whittier To a Friend iv Loose rock and frozen slide Hung on the mountain-side.
1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 296 The shaft passes 45 feet through ‘slide’, and then 155 feet on the vein.
c. Geology. A fault formed at and associated with a fold.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > fault > other types of fault
heave1802
reversed fault1852
reverse fault1865
step-fault1879
ring fracture1881
overfault1883
overlap fault1883
overthrust1883
trough fault1883
thrust1888
thrust-fault1889
offset1897
cross-fault1900
tear-fault1900
distributive fault1904
cross-break1909
slide1910
strike-slip fault1913
rift1921
splay fault1942
wrench fault1951
megashear1954
transform fault1965
transform1971
1910 E. B. Bailey in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 66 593 ‘Fold-fault’ itself is too cumbrous for constant repetition, and accordingly ‘slide’ has been introduced to take its place.
1934 E. B. Bailey in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 90 467 ‘Fold-fault’ is an old word for a fault formed in close causal connexion with folding... I employed the word ‘slip’ in this sense, but on Lapworth's suggestion exchanged it for ‘slide’. Now that reversed and unreversed limbs are often distinguishable through the help of current-bedding, the word ‘slide’ is less necessary, since it can often conveniently be replaced by ‘thrust’ or ‘lag’. The following are helpful though incomplete definitions:—A thrust is a slide replacing an inverted limb, actual or ideal. A lag is a slide replacing a normal limb.
1969 G. M. Bennison & A. E. Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles iii. 55 An important structural break, the Iltay Boundary Slide, separates two contrasted sedimentary successions both in Scotland and northern Ireland.
4.
a. A kind of sledge. (Cf. slid n.)
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [noun]
car1488
harrow15..
trail1570
sladea1585
slidec1692
carriole1761
carryall1797
trail-cart1803
jumper1823
toboggan1829
konaki1914
c1692 J. Coad Mem. Wonderful Provid. (1849) 10 Reply was made that I was not able to go nor ride; at which he ordered them to bring me on a slide.
1764 Museum Rusticum 2 362 We frequently procure a slide, to be drawn by one horse, made of two poles about ten feet long.
1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers I. 193 The slide or sledge is seen in the fields.
1896 Pilgrim Missionary (Boston) Sept. 10 I..borrowed a mule and a slide, and hauled to the house some planks and pickets.
b. A runner on which a gun is mounted.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > gun carriage > [noun] > runner for gun
slide1830
1830 F. Marryat King's Own II. x. 138 Their guns..were fixed on slides..to enable them to be fired over the bows.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xiv. 237 They all carried guns mounted upon slides, which ran fore and aft between the men.
II. A sliding part, and related uses.
5. A sliding part of some mechanism; a device which slides or may be slid; New Zealand, a serving hatch (see sense j); Music, on wind instruments; also a slide guitar or the playing of it (see k).In various technical uses: cf. slider n.1 4. Ash (1775) gives the general definition, ‘a part of an instrument or machine to be pulled in and out’. A few out of the many special applications are here illustrated.
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the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [noun] > utensils for serving > serving-hatch
buttery hatcha1566
slidec1608
kitchen hatch1734
serving hatch1879
pass-through1958
servery1960
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > [noun] > sliding
slidec1608
slider1681
traveller1761
slide action1848
guide-block?1865
slipper1903
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > [noun] > guitar techniques
slidec1608
rasgado1876
fingerstyle1923
bottleneck1928
fingerpicking1956
bottleneck style1959
bottleneck playing1968
slide guitar1968
bottleneck slide guitar1973
chicken scratch1974
slack key1975
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > guitar or lute type > [noun] > guitar > other guitars
slidec1608
samisen1616
angelique1660
angelot1678
angel lutea1708
strim-stramc1730
sitar1777
balalaika1788
ramkie1805
sancho1817
sanxian1839
bass guitar1855
gimbri1876
cuatro1904
electric guitar1933
requinto1937
tamburitza1941
tiple1942
dobro1952
acoustic guitar1953
acoustical guitar1957
bottleneck guitar1961
acoustic1962
slide guitar1968
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > brass instruments > [noun] > trombone
posaune1724
trombone1724
busaun1776
valve trombone1883
slush pump1913
slip-horn1923
slide1976
a.
b.1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music at Trumpet By the aid of a newly invented slide many other notes which the common trumpet cannot sound are now produced.1872 H. C. Banister Text-bk. Mus. (1899) 228 The Trombone is a brass instrument with slides shortening or lengthening its tube.c.1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 46 Air should likewise be pretty freely admitted..by means of slides or other contrivances.1855 Lardner's Museum Sci. & Art V. 25 The methods of opening and closing the passages by means of lids slipping over them called slides.1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. xxii. 187 These instructions, Mr. Chivery..called through a little slide in the outer door.d.1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 57 The slides are ledges of good dry oak, about two or two and a half inches wide, and one third of an inch thick.e.1858 in P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Slide,..part of a forcing-pump.f.1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools Pl.H 10 This lathe has..a self-acting slide..for boring out..short lengths.1893 Spons' Mechanic's Own Bk. (ed. 4) 536 a is a slide which fits the lathe-bed very accurately, but will yet slide freely upon it.g.1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 490 The ‘slide’, or lock, receding from the spindles during the twisting of the threads, and returning to the spindle again during the winding on of the yarn.h.1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. 194 Attached to the framework let there be, close to the circumference of each cylinder, a slide or guide-rod to guide a moveable point, moved by the hand of an operator.i.1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 92 In full plate lever watches the slide is jewelled and supports the bottom pivot of the balance staff.j.1949 J. R. Cole It was so Late 92 I was standing by the slide in the lounge one night.1955 Numbers I. iv. 14 Charlie ordered for them both and Kate dragged back to the slide.k.1968 Down Beat 31 Oct. 18/1 He had quite a lot of advantages on his guitar for that time. Played slide a lot.1976 A. C. Baines Brass Instruments: Hist. & Devel. iv. 94 (heading) Renaissance slides.1976 Rolling Stone 22 Apr. 16/5 After some initially slavish imitations of Muddy and Elmore, slide became better integrated into rock.1977 J. Wainwright Do Nothin' viii. 129 Walter Green—trombonist... As a slide-player he is average.c1608 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 158 For the fiffth bell..a Rope Slide and other Implementes.
6. A kind of tongueless buckle or ring used as a fastener, clasp, or brooch; a small perforated object sliding on a cord, etc. Now spec. a clasp for fastening in the hair.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > buckle > type of
slide1781
ojime1889
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery worn on the head > [noun] > hair ornaments
penner1624
golden tettix1874
slide1897
1781 Ann. Reg. 1779 203 A gold slide, set with diamonds.
1824 J. Taylor Contrib. of Q.Q. (1828) II. 149 If a slide broke in her frock,..instead of re-placing..she would exclaim—‘there's that tiresome slide gone’.
1897 Army & Navy Stores List 271 Tortoiseshell slides for the hair, 1/0.
1932 L. Golding Magnolia St. iii. ix. 593 That slide which has just slid out of her hair on to the parquet floor.
1952 M. Laski Village ii. 33 Her soft brown hair caught back with a slide.
1981 J. B. Hilton Playground of Death ii. 10 There wasn't a grip, clip or slide on the market that would keep my mam's hair up.
7.
a. A slip of glass or other material on which an object is mounted or placed to facilitate its examination by a microscope.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > [noun] > microscope > slides
talc1766
finder1829
slide1837
slip1895
1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 14 That part of the old compound microscopes which used to carry the slide of object-glasses.
1895 G. E. Davis Pract. Microsc. (ed. 3) 375 Objects are generally mounted upon glass slides, or ‘slips’, as they are sometimes called.
b. A picture prepared for use in a magic lantern or stereoscope (now chiefly Historical); a photographic transparency for use in a slide projector.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [noun] > transparency
slide1819
transparency1866
tranny1979
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > optical shows > [noun] > magic lantern show > slide
slider?1793
magic lantern slide1802
slide1819
hyalotype1851
chromatrope1860
zoetrope1866
lantern slide1871
photo-hyalotype1875
wheel of colour1877
lantern-photograph1884
diapositive1893
1819 M. Edgeworth Let. 17 Apr. (1971) 199 You know him and his magic lantern of good things. Some new figures on the slides.
1845 C. Dickens Cricket on Hearth i. 37 He had even lost money..by getting up Goblin slides for magic lanterns.
1858 Edinb. Rev. July 207 His history..passes before us like a series of slides in a magic lantern.
1890 E. Atkinson tr. A. Ganot Elem. Treat. Physics 598 A stereoscope..which will give us, with the ordinary stereoscopic slides, a reversed picture.
1940 P. E. Boucher Fund. of Photogr. (1941) xiii. 200 Valuable slides..which are to be subjected to considerable use should be mounted in glass.
1978 M. J. Langford Step by Step Guide to Photogr. 176 Before presentation, your slides must be inserted in holders ready for projection.
c. Photography. A flat case or receptacle within which plates are placed for the purpose of being inserted in a camera. Frequently in dark slide n. at dark adj. Compounds 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > camera > parts and accessories of camera > [noun] > plate-holders or boxes
dark box1839
plate holder1850
slide1856
repeating back1867
cassette1875
roller slide1877
kit1885
sheath1890
1856 Orr's Circle of Sci., Pract. Chem. 184 It is best to let the water dry off previously to the plate being placed in the slide.
1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. 216 The slide is divided into two parts, hinged so as to fold one against the other.
8. Rowing. A sliding seat.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > seat in a boat > for rower(s) > sliding seat
sliding seat1874
slide1875
1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) 643/1 A well-known amateur who..had never used the slide.
1894 Lehmann in Daily News 6 Feb. 3/5 In 1871 a crew of professionals used a seat that slid on the thwarts, and beat a crew that was generally held to be superior, and from that moment slides, as we now know them, came into general use.
III. A sliding surface, and related uses.
9. A smooth surface, esp. of ice, for sliding on, or formed by being slid on; a slippery place.
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the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > smoothness > [noun] > slippery smoothness > slippery surface, part, or object
slide1688
butter slide1843
mudslide1856
slither1919
snow slide1927
1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Qqqv/1 Slide, a frozen Place slid upon.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxix. 313 Mr. Pickwick..took another run and went slowly and gravely down the slide.
1856 W. M. Thackeray Lett. in Wks. (1901) X. p. xxvii A poor old gentleman slipped down and broke his thigh on a slide.
1899 B. Capes Lady of Darkness xi. 91 A perfect little slide of grease that had formed on the boards below.
10.
a. An inclined plane for the transit of heavy goods, esp. timber. Chiefly North American.
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1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. (ed. 2) xxviii. 278 The mines of Bolanos..are supplied with timber from the adjacent mountains by a slide similar to that of Alpnach.
1878 Lumberman's Gaz. 16 Mar. The logs are then placed in the trough of the slide and very easily drawn by horses to their destination.
1886 B. Harte Snowbound 127 A slide was a rude incline for the transit of heavy goods that could not be carried down a trail.
b. North American. A sloping channel constructed to facilitate the passage of logs down stream; a chute.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs > place where logs enter river
rollway1820
skid1851
slide1858
banking ground1863
1858 in P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products
1880 Lumberman's Gaz. 7 Jan. 28 The government constructs ‘slides’ for the passage of timber around shoals or rapids where there are no canals.
1884 S. E. Dawson Handbk. Canada 20 The streams for floating timber to market have been opened up by slides, booms, and dams.
c. The bottom of a gold-washing cradle.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for treating ores > [noun] > for washing ore > for gold > part of gold-washing machine
slide1855
1855 W. Howitt Land, Labour & Gold I. 206 We take the fine gravel out of the slide of the cradle.
1864 J. Rogers New Rush II. 27 The heavier gold remaining on the slide.
d. (See quot.)
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1879 Harper's Mag. Nov. 889/1 Some [corrals] have what are called ‘slides’, or passages gradually narrowing until but one animal can pass, and he, as he cannot turn around, can be easily branded.
e. A structure with a smooth sloping surface used as a toy or piece of playground equipment down which children slide, or as an entertainment at a fairground. Cf. chute n.1 3c.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > slide
slide1890
1890 Cent. Mag. Advertising Suppl. Dec. 70 Wood's parlor toboggan slide. The most satisfactory toy yet invented for children.
1924 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Nov. 126/1 This kiddies' slide is more fun than the old cellar door!
1954 R. Dahl Someone like You 210 All week the swings and the see-saws and the high slide with steps going up to it stood deserted.
1975 I. Starsmore Eng. Fairs iv. 92 (caption) The Portable Slide. Height 29 ft... The three 100 ft. lanes guide ‘passengers’ down the slide.
1979 ‘J. le Carré’ Smiley's People (1980) xxi. 257 There was a children's slide in the garden.
11.
a. A device of the nature of a bed, rail, groove, etc., on or in which a thing may slide.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > [noun] > sliding > on which a thing may slide
slide1846
1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 897 The work to be continually moved to and fro upon the slide or railway, a distance equal to its own length.
1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 48 Slides, upright rails, of wood or metal, fixed in a shaft, for the purpose of steadying the cages, which have corresponding grooves attached to them.
1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools Pl.F ii The hammer~head is of cast iron, and works in slides, which are firmly rivetted into the frames.
b. U.S. slang. (See quot. 1932.)
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > parts of > pocket
foba1652
spung1728
breeches-pocket1783
watch fob1785
fob-pocket1837
hip pocket1865
prat-kick1896
slide1932
1932 Evening Sun (Baltimore) 9 Dec. 31/5 Slide, a trouser's [sic] pocket.
1967 ‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp iii. 68 How would you like a half a ‘G’ in your ‘slide’?
12. The track of an otter.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Mustelidae (weasel, marten, otter, or badger) > [noun] > genus Lutra (otter) > track or trace of
marchc1425
otter-path1771
slide1842
otter-track1854
otter-mark1856
1842 J. E. De Kay Zool. N.-Y. i. 40 The steel trap is placed..at the bottom of one of their slides.
1894 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. II. 95 These otters are usually caught in steel traps, which are set beneath the water where one of the ‘slides’ or tracks of the animals leads to the margin.
Draft additions 1993
U.S. A kind of open-backed shoe or slipper. Usually in plural.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > without a back
scuff1909
scuffer1911
slide1975
1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route 209 Kicks, shoes. Also called slides.]
1975 Footwear News 21 July 6 The slide is emerging as a top fashion theme.
1979 Arizona Daily Star 8 Apr. b7/4 (advt.) Our sexy ‘Ursula’ slides are your ticket to a sensational summer! Natural, khaki, white, rust or wine leather vamps on poly bottoms.
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Firearms. A sliding mechanism on a firearm. Now spec.: a metal casing either enclosing the barrel and upper part of a pistol, or located behind the barrel, and incorporating or moving with the breech block.
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1816 Sporting Mag. 48 191/2 The slide [in a gun] still works freely, no rust having been found on the grooves.
1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Nov. 7/2 By opening a valve the slide..becomes lineable with the barrel of the gun.
1897 Brit. Patent 9871 13 When the breech-bolt is moved to the rear, either by hand or by the powder gases, the breech is opened,..so that, on the release of the breech-bolt, it returns the slide and the breech-bolt to their forward position and thereby closes the breech.
1919 J. B. L. Noel Automatic Pistol 13 When unloading an automatic pistol, after removing the magazine always pull the slide or breech back to eject the cartridge which remains in the chamber.
1978 A. North & I. Hogg Guns & Gunsmiths II. x. 190 The mass of the breech block needs to be substantially greater than the mass of the bullet, and this was done by making the breech block a part of the much greater component known as the ‘slide’, a metal casing which completely enclosed the barrel and the upper part of the pistol.
2006 Australian (Nexis) 1 May 15 In the case of the Browning semi-automatic pistol.., the magazine should be extracted from the butt of the pistol and the slide pulled back to eject the round in the breech.
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In skateboarding, snowboarding and similar sports: a manoeuvre in which the board slides along an obstacle such as a rail or the edge of a ramp. Frequently as the second element in compounds, with the first element indicating the type of obstacle, orientation of the board, etc., as lipslide, noseslide, railslide, etc. Cf. sense 1f.
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1987 Los Angeles Times 21 July (San Diego County ed.) ii. 1/5 There are excellent walls for wall plants and kickturns, plenty of flat area for slides and street plants, a knee-high railing perfect for ollie board slides, and an incredible bank.
1989 N.Y. Times 30 July i. 47/1 There is only one true purpose to summer. It is the best time to work on wall rides, rail slides, inverts and tail slides.
1994 Pittsburgh Post-Gaz. (Electronic ed.) 27 Nov. c6 Besseler has been meeting with skateboarders to reach agreement on another place where they can do their front side nose slides and 360-flips.
1996 Wake Boarding Mag. Aug. 104/1 The pros wrapped up the evening of wakeboarding with huge inverts and many long rail slides.
1999 SNOWboard Mar. 82 (caption) Dick might never throw down a FS270 to Frontside Lipslide.
2005 Concrete Wave Early Spring 56 The skating quickly became more and more adventurous with frontside airs, boardslides, rock-n-rolls and tandem runs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
slidev.
/slʌɪd/, U.S. /slaɪd/α. Old English -slád; northern and Scottish Middle English slad, Middle English slayd, Middle English slayde, Middle English– slaid, 1700s– slade, 1800s slaed. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 23222 Þoh a fir in fel..þar in to slad.?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 5456 Þa waters sone away slade.1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 701 The schippys our the wawys slayd.1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. 120 Ane serpent slaid..out of ane pillare.1591 King James VI & I Poet. Exercises sig. L2v Our enemies feet they slaid.1721 A. Ramsay Lucky Spence xiv I slade away wi' little din.1787 R. Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook xxvi, in Poems (new ed.) 63 The wife slade cannie to her bed.
β. Middle English slood, Middle English (1800s dialect) slod, Middle English–1600s slode. 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 237 He slood wiþ his oon foot.c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1182 In slomeryng he slode.1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur ix. xviii. 365 His swerd slode adoune.1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cclxx. 403 He slode and fell downe.1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 257 We slode step by step.
γ. Middle English–1500s slydde, 1500s–1600s slidde, 1500s– slid. 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 198 All thynges that slydde vnto them..by thys swete flowde of the holy gooste.1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. iv. sig. Ff4 Whiles..they softly slid.1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iv. i. sig. I I slidde downe..into the streete.1677 A. Marvell Let. 1 Mar. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 182 This slid ouer.
δ. Middle English– slided, 1500s slyded. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xiv. 345 The swerde slided vpon the helme.c1575 J. Hooker Life Sir P. Carew in Archaeologia (1840) 28 121 His foote slyded or slipped.1681 P. Rycaut tr. B. Gracián y Morales Critick 187 Others slided along with a good Air.a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) I. 269 A number of parts..which slided.1826 T. Hood Last Man 20 Then down the rope..I slided.
3. Past participle.α. Middle English islide, Middle English islyde, Middle English slide, Middle English yslide. c1250 Owl & Night. 686 Hit nis of horte islide.a1400 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 132 Hou sone þat hit is forþ islyde.a1420 Bible: Prov. xxiv. 10 Thou that hast slide [v.r. yslide].
β. Old English -sliden, Middle English sclyddyn (Scottish), Middle English slidon, Middle English slidun, Middle English slyddin (Scottish), Middle English slyden, Middle English slydyn, Middle English 1600s sliden, 1500s slydden, 1500s– slidden, 1800s sledden (dialect). ▸ a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Lament. iii. 53 Slyden is in to a grene my lyf.1392 in W. Fraser Lennox (1874) II. 48 Throw errour sclyddyn.c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. lx Sliden & viciat by þe first man.1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 126 Sum ar slyddin our the wall.1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 9 The truth whence ye haue slydden.1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 14 Now changed and sliden backe.a1697 J. Aubrey Nat. Hist. Surrey (1718) IV. 148 A great Part..is slidden down into the Grounds below.1881 E. Coxon Basil Plant I. 64 So easily had he slidden back into his old habits.
γ. 1500s slyded, 1500s slydyd, 1600s– slided. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Sam. xxii. 37 Myne ankles haue not slyded.1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xxxv. 301 Other spirits which..would haue slided downe more leisurely.1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 36 This Block must be slided over to c.1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 220/1 We have slided into Cicero's language.
δ. 1600s– slid. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1646 (1955) II. 514 It was..almost two miles that he had slid & fall'n.a1751 Bolingbroke Ess. i. vii, in Wks. (1754) III. 489 They have not only slid imperceptibly.1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xiv. 95 Before I had slid a dozen yards.
In Old English the conjugation is more fully represented in the compound áslídan (-slád, -slidon, -sliden). In early Middle English the short preterite stem appears in the subjunctive slĭde in the S. Eng. Leg. I. 212/427. Signification.
I. intransitive. To move from one place to another smoothly; to glide.
1.
a. To pass from one place or point to another with a smooth and continuous movement, esp. through the air or water or along a surface.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > smoothly
slidea950
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swima1556
steal1626
slip1680
snoove1719
skate1775
sleek1818
the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > slip or slide
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slitherc1200
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slur1617
glide1674
slather1809
scoot1838
sluther1854
slade1895
a950 Prose Life Guthlac (1909) v. 123 Ða comon semninga twegen deoflu to him of þære lyfte slidan.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Sam. xxii. 11 He..slood vpon the pennys of the wynd.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 701 The schippys our the wawys slayd.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 12690 [Þai] Letyn sailes doune slide sleghli & faire.
a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Biv Thus slided through our town The subtil tree.
a1599 E. Spenser Canto Mutabilitie vii. xliii, in Faerie Queene (1609) sig. Ii2v Two fishes..Which through the flood before did softly slyde And swim away.
1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia iii. 100 Aprills gentle show'rs are slidden downe To close the windchapt earth.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 302 He took me rais'd,..over Fields and Waters, as in Aire Smooth sliding without step. View more context for this quotation
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 369. ¶9 The Gods..slide o'er the Surface of the Earth by an uniform Swimming of the whole Body.
1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom I. 214 The vestige of the coal is sure to slide down the slope of the ground.
1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. I. x. 131 The officer slided with extended arms from his restingplace.
1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 401 The metal could be made to slide upon itself without puckering.
1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. xiv. 413 Whitish-green spots..over which the pencil usually slid as if the spots were greasy.
b. To move in this manner while standing more or less erect upon a surface, esp. that of ice.Formerly used of skating, now distinguished from it.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > smoothly > while standing on a surface
slidec1340
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [verb (intransitive)] > slide
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c1340 Nominale (Skeat) 164 M[an] sliduth vp-on hyse.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 721/1 I have sene one in Hollande slyde as faste upon the yse as a bote dothe in the water whan it is rowed.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xxi. 58 b [He] mounteth vpon your backe, and so with his feet slydeth vp and downe vpon you.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 34 The Virgins in Holland,..hand in hand with young men, slide upon the yce farre from their Fathers house.
1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar iii. ii. 37 I fear.. As boys [fear] to venture on the unknown Ice, That crackles underneath 'em, while they slide.
1715 J. T. Desaguliers tr. N. Gauger Fires Improv'd 38 Those that Slide, Scate, or use any other violent Exercise in frosty Weather.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1728 I. 25 [Johnson:] I answered, I had been sliding in Christ-Church meadow.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xvii. 4 Many thousands came sliding or skating along the frozen canals.
1883 Harper's Mag. Dec. 93/1 ‘Do you slide?’ ‘I never have slidden much.’
c. To slip off something.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > slip or slide > off
slide1623
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > slide down > slide off
slide1623
1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 68 The Souldiers..vpon whom the Snow fell, and slid not off, became miserably distressed.
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 300 A..white precipitate subsides to the bottom, and slides off the glass.
d. Baseball. To perform a slide (sense 1e).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (intransitive)] > action of runner
overrun1612
slide1891
pinch-run1919
reach1932
to tag up1942
1891 Harper's Weekly 23 May 391/4 His base running, in spite of his care about sliding, is of the old-time quality that has already won two championships for Yale.
1904 J. J. McGraw Sci. of Baseball 67 He shouldn't slide unless his pants are properly padded.
1932 Baseball Mag. Oct. 501/2 George Watkins, quick to grasp Dazzy's slight slip, turned on a full burst of speed and slid across home plate with the only run of the game.
1977 Rolling Stone 30 June 76/2 Do you always think about baseball players when you're making love?.. I couldn't figure out why you kept yelling, ‘Slide!’
e. Surfing. To ride across the face of a wave.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > surf-ride [verb (intransitive)] > actions of surfer
pearl-dive1923
slide1931
hot-dog1959
to hang five, ten1962
to kick out1962
to cut back1963
to pull out1963
to pull off1964
nose-ride1965
rollercoaster1969
shred1977
rail1986
to pull in1987
1931 Country Life in Amer. Jan. 57 If the wave proves exceptionally steep, keep to the stern of the board and then, after you ‘catch’ the wave, head the board at an angle to it. This will enable you to ‘slide’ with the wave.
1959 J. Bloomfield Know-how in Surf iii. 27 The gradually breaking crest enables the body to slide down its front at an angle of approximately 45 degrees.
f. Curling. To move forwards while delivering the stone.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > curling > curl [verb (intransitive)] > actions
roar1787
wick1811
outwick1830
port1831
rebut1831
to fill the ice1867
guard1878
slide1936
1936 F. B. Talbot Mr Besom starts Curling xiii. 34 Many good players slide out of the hack as they deliver the stone.
1950 K. Watson Curling i. 1 Whether you slide or do not slide, that follow-through is essentially the smooth delivery of the stone.
2. Of streams, etc.: To glide, flow. Now rare.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)]
runeOE
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strain1612
put1670
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slosha1953
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 266 A wounde upon his side Sche made, that therout mai slyde The blod withinne.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 11984 Ihesu soone in þat tide lett þe watir rynne & slide.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. xiii. 71 The flude Tibir throw Lawrent feildis slidis.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme xlvi. 10 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 40 A Riuer streaming ioy With purling murmur saflie slides.
1633 P. Fletcher Piscatorie Eclogs i. v. 2 in Purple Island Where Thames and Isis heire By lowly Æton slides.
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xiii. 32 To suck out the wheyish Blood which slides along that way.
1738 Common Sense II. 176 It has neither rushed down the Rock, nor slided thro' the Plain.
1746 W. Mason On the Cam in Poems 1830 II. ii. 49 Without a rill the even tide Slided silently away.
1819 J. H. Wiffen Aonian Hours 90 Ever from his lid a tear would slide.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Eleänore (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 99 As waves that up a quiet cove Rolling slide.
3. Of reptiles, etc.: To glide, crawl. Now rare.
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the world > animals > reptiles > [verb (intransitive)] > move
snikec897
slidea1300
glidec1315
slither1839
a1300 Cursor Mundi 894 Þou worm,..þou sal slid apon þi brest.
a1400 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 222 Neddre,..vppe þi breste þou schalt slyden.
c1480 (a1400) SS. Cosmas & Damian 261 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 299 As þe serpent had entre in at his mouth,..one þe sammyne wise it slad oute.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 721/1 It is a wondrouse thyng to se an adder or a snake slyde so faste as they do and have no fete.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. xiii. f. 44 These slippery snakes doe slide away.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 15 Hee espied the snake to slide vppe into the bed-straw.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 39 These thieves slide cunningly along upon their bellies like Snakes.
1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 222 Sliding reptiles of the ground, Startlingly beautiful.
4. figurative.c1480 (a1400) St. Adrian 212 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 278 Hou þu had grace criste for to kene,..and þu fra hym þis [= thus] slad!1594 T. Kyd tr. R. Garnier Cornelia iii. i He slides More swiftly from mee then the Ocean glydes.
a. To move, go, proceed unperceived, quietly, or stealthily; to steal, creep, slink, or slip away, into or out of a place, etc.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > stealthy movement > move stealthily [verb (intransitive)]
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pussyfoot1902
soft-foot1913
cat-foot1916
pussy1919
pussa1953
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Kings xx. 39 Keep this man; the which if were slyden aweye, thi lijf shal be for the lijf of hym.
a1400–50 Alexander 4456 Quen ȝe ere slide hyne.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 1333 Slely he slayd throuch strenthis off Scotland.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 721/2 Who wolde ever have thought it, that he shulde have slydden out at this narow hole.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. B2v So slyding softly forth, she turnd as to her ease.
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. E2 Then, noble spirit, slide in strange disguise, Vnto some gratious Prince.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 140 The slipp'ry God..attempts to slide away. View more context for this quotation
1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxvii. 365 You observe how he slid away..as soon as I open'd my Door.
1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. vii. 297 Slouching my hat, I slid out of doors.
1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux I. ii. iii. 179 Steele slid into a seat near my own.
1889 D. C. Murray & H. Murray Dangerous Catspaw 7 An officer of the court slid to the door of the judge's apartments.
b. colloquial. To make off. Originally U.S.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily
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runOE
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stepc1460
to flee (one's) touch?1515
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to make awaya1566
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scuddle1577
scoura1592
to take the start1600
to walk off1604
to break awaya1616
to make off1652
to fly off1667
scuttle1681
whew1684
scamper1687
whistle off1689
brush1699
to buy a brush1699
to take (its, etc.) wing1704
decamp1751
to take (a) French leave1751
morris1765
to rush off1794
to hop the twig1797
to run along1803
scoot1805
to take off1815
speela1818
to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
absquatulize1829
mosey1829
absquatulate1830
put1834
streak1834
vamoose1834
to put out1835
cut1836
stump it1841
scratch1843
scarper1846
to vamoose the ranch1847
hook1851
shoo1851
slide1859
to cut and run1861
get1861
skedaddle1862
bolt1864
cheese it1866
to do a bunkc1870
to wake snakes1872
bunk1877
nit1882
to pull one's freight1884
fooster1892
to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892
smoke1893
mooch1899
to fly the coop1901
skyhoot1901
shemozzle1902
to light a shuck1905
to beat it1906
pooter1907
to take a run-out powder1909
blow1912
to buzz off1914
to hop it1914
skate1915
beetle1919
scram1928
amscray1931
boogie1940
skidoo1949
bug1950
do a flit1952
to do a scarper1958
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
to do a runner1980
to be (also get, go) ghost1986
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) (at cited word) To slide, to go, be gone, be off.
1873 B. Harte Episode of Fiddletown 85 She led William where he was covered by seventeen Modocs, and—slid!
1904 Daily Chron. 17 Sept. 6/6 We had better slide; he looks like a ‘busy’.
1932 E. Wallace When Gangs came to London xxvii. 269 There's only one word that any sensible man can read in this situation, and that word is—slide!
II. To pass from one state to another; to slip away.
5.
a. To pass away, pass by, so as to disappear, be forgotten or neglected, etc. Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or negligent [verb (intransitive)] > be or remain neglected > become neglected
slidec1250
overslidea1375
c1250 Owl & Night. 686 For Alured seyde of olde quide & yet hit nis of horte islide.
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 769 Bothe Troylus and Troye toun Shal knotteles thorugh out here herte slyde.
a1400 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 132 Knowe þis worldly honoure Hou sone þat hit is forþ islyde.
?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. hh.iiiv That his redolent buddes shall not slyde But euer encrease.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 4032 Frostes were faren,..The slippond slete slidon of the ground.
1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. iv. vii. 60 Thus the slaunder slyded away with the time.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 502 Presently the black haires will fall and slide away, and in some short time there will come white.
1828 C. Lamb Capt. Jackson in Elia 2nd Ser. 190 Alack, how good men, and the good turns they do us, slide out of memory.
b. With let (or allow). In later use frequently, to let (something) take its own course.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or heedless of [verb (transitive)] > neglect
foryemeOE
misyemeOE
miswitec1225
slidec1386
to leave behinda1393
mistendc1400
forgo?a1500
to let go1535
neglecta1538
to leave out in the cold1886
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > not restrain [verb (transitive)]
slidec1386
to give a person rope (also enough rope, etc.)a1475
to give (the) rein(s) (to)1484
to let go1526
to give (a horse) his (also her, its, etc.) head1571
license1605
to give linea1616
unchecka1616
to give a loose (occasionally give loose) to1685
to give stretch to1777
to let rip1857
c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 26 In his lust present was al his thoght,..Wel ny alle othere cures leet he slyde.
a1400 Minor Poems from Vernon MS. I. 492 [Let him] put his wylle in gode þewes, And alle wikked let slyde.
c1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine i. 935 Ȝe wyl not lete þis mater slyde, parde.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. iii. sig. P8v With a calme carelesnesse letting each thing slide.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Chargé To take no thought, passe the time merrily, let the world slide.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) Induct. i. 5 Therefore..let the world slide . View more context for this quotation
1847 Streaks of Squatter Life 122 If you have the least hankerin' arter the mean varmint, in course I'll let him slide.
a1859 in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 241 If California was going to cost the Union so much, it would be better to let California slide.
1885 Manch. Examiner 3 June 5/1 The question at issue was not allowed to slide.
1897 Field 6 Feb. 166/1 The supine way we English have of letting things slide.
c. Of time: To pass, slip away, go by, imperceptibly or without being profitably employed.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > [verb (intransitive)]
overgoeOE
agoeOE
goOE
forthgoOE
runOE
overdrivea1275
farea1325
overmetea1325
walka1325
passc1330
slidec1374
yern1377
to pass overa1382
wastec1385
waive1390
to pass awaya1400
overseyc1400
drive?c1450
to drive ona1470
slevea1510
to roll awaya1522
to roll overa1522
to wear out, forth1525
flit1574
to pass on1574
to run on1578
overhie1582
wear1597
overslip1607
spend1607
travel1609
to go bya1616
elapsea1644
to come round1650
efflux1660
to roll round1684
lapse1702
roll1731
to roll around1769
to roll by1790
transpire1824
to come around1829
tide1835
elabe1837
tick1937
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 351 So sholdestow endure, and laten slyde The tyme.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 3 Thus have I lete time slyde For Slowthe.
1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 56 Since our life so fast away doth slide.
1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 147 Time slides away like the running streame.
1636 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae (new ed.) 824 The season With slouthing slydes away.
1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 26 Sept. (1965) I. 274 I need not..tell you how agreably time slides away with me.
1735 H. Fielding Old Man taught Wisdom 1 How happily must my Old Age slide away.
1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun II. vii. 84 Let the warm day slide by.
1897 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin i. iv In this manner about six weeks slid away.
6. † a. To fall asleep, etc. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > be or remain in specific state or condition [verb (intransitive)] > come or be brought to a state or condition
gangeOE
comeOE
slidec1330
light1629
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8150 By-neþe þe erþe..Is a water rennyng dep, Þat makes þy werk slyden o slep.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 59 I slode vpon a slepyng slaȝte.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vii. l. 68 Apon a sleip he slaid full sodandly.
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid vii. Prol. 111 On slummyr I slaid full sad.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy Prol. 6 Off aunters [that] ben olde..And slydyn vppon slepe by slomeryng of Age.
b. To pass easily or gradually into some condition, practice, etc. †Also in early use with to.In some contexts there is connection with sense 9.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > change gradually [verb (intransitive)] > from or into
slidea1398
growc1460
wear1555
accrue1586
ripen1611
shuffle1635
melt1651
steal1660
spawn1677
verge1757
to glide into1800
shade1819
evolve?1831
shadow1839
grade1892
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ii. iv. 65 Þey [sc. angels] neuer slidith to vice noþir to synne.
c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi i. xxv. 38 He þat eschuiþ not smale defautes, litel & litel shal slide in to gretter.
?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. aa.iiiiv That ye to fraylte shall not slyde.
1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 79v When they shall here any of the Familie slide into any of these affirmations.
1754 E. Young Centaur ii, in Wks. (1757) IV. 137 Thus, looking out for some shadow of excuse, we naturally slide into groundless doubts.
1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women I. vi. 230 [She] will.., when her province is enlarged, slide into the duties of it with readiness.
1802 J. West Infidel Father II. 128 Even Lord Glanville, while he made his bow, so far slided into equivoque [etc.].
1847 A. Helps Friends in Council I. iii. 36 When an honourable man..slides into some dishonourable action.
a1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) I. 144 I had slid into something of correspondence with Lockhart.
c. To pass by easy or gradual change or transformation into some other form or character.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > change gradually [verb (intransitive)] > from or into > form or character
slidec1650
intergrade1874
c1650 Sir Cawline (Percy) l. 99 in J. W. Hales & F. J. Furnivall Bp. Percy's Folio MS (1868) III. 8 The timber these 2 Children bore Soe soone in sunder slode.
1731 A. Pope Epist. to Earl of Burlington 7 Parts answ'ring Parts, shall slide into a Whole.
1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music vii. 143 The Narrative..did easily slide into dramatic Representation.
1847 A. Helps Friends in Council I. vi. 96 The great danger..of representative government, is lest it should slide down from representative government to delegate government.
1862 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire VII. lxiv. 307 Rhetorical amplifications slid swiftly into direct misstatements.
1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 503 It was an easy step for the patron to slide into the beneficiary.
7.
a. To move, pass, make way, etc., in an easy or unobtrusive manner.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > easily or freely
slidec1374
runc1400
rolla1500
slip1680
lapse1798
shimmer1904
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) iii. pr. xii. 106 The deuyne substaunce..ne slydeþ nat in to outerest foreine þinges.
c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. 129 That science is so fer vs beforn, We mowen nat..It ouer-take, it slit awey so faste.
a1400 Minor Poems from Vernon MS lii. 149 Mony folk slod to helle slider.
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 198 Righte so the holy goste vouched safe to slyde in to the hartes of the prophetes.
1577 tr. ‘F. de L'Isle’ Legendarie sig. Cijv Seeking..to slyde in among the princes, and beare the like port as they.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vii. 239 The Fall Of Edens olde Prince, whose luxurious pride Made on his seed his sinne for euer slide.
1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 14 The which places of the Sunne are now changed and sliden backe in the Iulian Kalender.
1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 173 A good Conscience..makes him slide into the Grave by a more gentle and insensible Motion.
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. i. 3 So desirous..of sliding through life to the end of it unnoted.
1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman Introd. 8 I shall try to avoid that flowery diction which has slided from essays into novels.
1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 136 The poet's verse slides into the current of our blood.
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table iii. 73 All lecturers..have ruts and grooves in their minds, into which their conversation is perpetually sliding.
b. Of speech or music, or with reference to these; spec. (see quot. 1876).
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > write in good style [verb (intransitive)] > flow smoothly
slide1553
flow1584
cadence1907
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] > specific style or technique
descanta1450
to stay on1579
to run division1590
divide1609
shake1611
flourish1766
tweedle-dee1837
slide1864
Wagnerize1866
to break a chord1879
magadize1904
scoop1927
segue1958
rap1979
rhyme1979
scratch1982
1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 3 Euery Orater should earnestly labour to file his tongue, that his woordes maie slide with ease.
1864 R. Browning Abt Vogler xii I feel for the common chord again Sliding by semitones.
1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 399/1 To slide is to pass from one note to another without any cessation of sound, or distinction between the intervals.
c. Of the eye or sight: To pass quickly from one object to another.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look around > of eyes: to wander
rangea1547
wander?1575
rove?1577
slide1757
1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iii. §15. 100 The deceitful maze, through which the unsteady eye slides giddily.
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 511 The weary sight..slides off, Fastidious, seeking less familiar scenes.
III. To slip; to lapse.
8. figurative.1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 241 He makth a treigne, Into the which if that he slyde, Him were betre go besyde.a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Lament. iii. 53 My lijf slood in to a lake.1630 P. Massinger Renegado v. vii. sig. M2 Though the descent Were steepe as hell, I know I cannot slide.1668 Bp. E. Hopkins Serm. (1685) 45 We are apt to slide off from the smoother part of our lives, as flies from glass.1795 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iv, in Wks. (1907) VI. 399 It is not possible that the downhill should not be slid into.figurative.1820 W. Scott Monastery II. viii. 245 Muttering these last words, which slid from him, as it were unawares.
a. To slip; to lose one's foothold.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > miss one's footing > slip
slide?c1225
glidec1290
slip1530
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 185 Þer anged himane inan slibbri wei. heslid & falleð sone.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 212 Heo was so slider, þat man ne miȝte þare-oppe gon bote he slide and felle a-doun.
1485 W. Caxton tr. Paris & Vienne (1957) 16 Hys hors slode and thenne geffroy ouerthrewe to the erthe.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) x. 596 For hapnyt ony to slyde or fall, He suld be soyne to-fruschit all.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 721/2 He slydde and bothe his fete folded underneth him.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxxiiiv To the entent that the horses should not slide on the Pauement.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1646 (1955) II. 513 Cap: Wrays horse..slid downe a firefull precipice.
1764 C. Churchill Times 23 So sure, they walk on ice, and never slide.
1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci iii. i. 35 I see a woman..motionless, whilst I Slide giddily as the world reels.
b. Of the foot: To slip. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > miss one's footing > slip > of the foot
slipa1340
slittera1340
slide1340
to-slent14..
shoota1500
roll1878
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 149 Huanne þe on uot slyt, þe oþer him helpþ.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. xxxii. 35 Y shal ȝeeld to hem in tyme, that the foot of hem slyde.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 147 b/1 Hys foot slode so that he fyl in to the Ryuer.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Sam. xxii. 37 Thou hast enlarged my goinge vnder me, and myne ankles haue not slyded.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xi. sig. L5 His nigh foreweried feeble feet did slide, And downe he fell.
1831 W. Scott Castle Dangerous xiii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. IV. 311 His foot sliding in the blood of the young victim.
c. In general use: To slip. Also with adverbs and prepositions.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > slide down
slidec1400
delapse1816
c1400 Anturs Arth. 617 The swerde sleppis on slante, and one the mayle slydys.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Deut. xix. 5 The yrun slidith fro the helue,..and sleeth his freend.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur i. xvi. 58 The swerd slode doune by the hauberk behynde his back.
1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke ii. xii. 71 There temples be sliden downe, there eyes be holowe.
1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xiii. 228 Its point will not describe a Circle on the greatest Extuberances of the Globe, but will slide off it.
1748 S. Johnson Vision Theodore in R. Dodsley Preceptor 517 The Declivities grew more precipitous, and the Sand slided from beneath my Feet.
1834 W. Godwin Lives Necromancers 340 Just as he thought he had caught him by the hand, the miserable wretch slided from between his fingers.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Merlin & Vivien 737 in Idylls of King The snake of gold slid from her hair.
9. figurative. To lapse morally; to commit some fault; to err or go wrong.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > act wrongly or immorally [verb (intransitive)] > fall or lapse
befallc897
fallOE
slidea1000
slipc1340
scrithe1434
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > be mistaken, err [verb (intransitive)]
dwelec900
haltc900
marOE
slidea1000
misfangOE
missOE
to have wough?c1225
misnimc1225
misrekec1275
mis-startc1275
err1303
to go wrongc1340
misgo1340
slipc1340
snapperc1380
forvay1390
to miss of ——c1395
to make a balkc1430
to run in ——1496
trip1509
fault1530
mistake1548
misreckon1584
misstep1605
warpa1616
solecize1627
hallucinate1652
nod1677
to go will1724
to fare astray (misliche, amiss)a1849
slip1890
skid1920
a1000 Salomon 378 Ðonne he geong færeð, hafað wilde mod,..slideð geneahhe [etc.].
c1250 Owl & Night. 1390 Nis wunder nou þah he abide, Vor fleysses lustes hi makeþ slide.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xix. 16 Ther is that slideth in his tunge, but not of inwit.
1436 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 182 When grace shynethe sone are wee slydynge.
?1548 tr. J. Calvin Faythfvl Treat. Sacrament sig. Ciiiv The rule, whiche yf we folowe, wee shall neyther slyde nor erre.
a1591 H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 266 The strong and just God, that consumed Nineveh slidden back.
1606 J. Carpenter Schelomonocham vi. f. 23 No man so wise but he may by an occasion slide.
1738 J. Wesley Coll. Psalms & Hymns (new ed.) v. 5 Lead me in all thy righteous Ways, Nor suffer me to slide.
1779 W. Cowper in J. Newton & W. Cowper Olney Hymns iii. xxiii. 337 I find myself a learner yet, Unskilful, weak, and apt to slide.
1868 J. Edmeston in Sacred Poetry 143 The Saviour suffers when his children slide.
10. Scottish. (See quot. a1814.)
ΚΠ
a1814 J. Ramsay Scotl. & Scotsmen 18th Cent. (1888) II. 68 It was imagined they would slide—i.e., ‘lose beef and tallow’—by the change of food.
IV. transitive. To cause to move in a smooth manner, and related uses.figurative.1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic i. i Haven't we the signors and signoras calling here, sliding their smooth semibreves?1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 295 Sliding his whisper from between his lips, which were as little unclosed as possible.1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen viii. 123 Madly sliding his splendid army like a weaver's shuttle, from his right hand to his left.
11. To cause to move with a smooth, gliding motion; to push over a level surface.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move or cause to move progressively in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > cause to move along easily
slidec1537
run1846
c1537 J. London in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. III. 132 Then must they putt in to the trowgh a peckke of oots, and when they wer oons slydyd vndre the Awter [etc.].
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. ii. xvi. 93 Then slide your Sight-Vane a little higher towards V.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 43 The Tennants of the Till being slid in through the Cutting-in aforesaid.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 130 They may be slid forwards so far, till the Bodies..touch each other.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §225 (note) We slid the stones to their respective places.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 80 The cheeks must be of such a height, that the cutter-frames can be slidden along upon them.
1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 211 The right hand being slided towards the head in the act of lifting the hammer.
1877 W. R. Cooper Short Hist. Egypt. Obelisks (1878) viii. 35 The obelisk was slid off from the deck of the galley, on to a low cart.
12. With in or into: To introduce quietly or dexterously; to slip (something) into one's hand, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > indirectly or covertly
shuffle1565
wind?1570
wriggle1599
insinuate1610
slidea1631
slip1688
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1956) VIII. 155 Slide wee in this note by the way.
1677 G. Miege New Dict. French & Eng. i. sig. *Qq 2v/1 To slide his hand into ones pocket.
1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 8. 50 He was..to slide the Letter into her Hand, but let no Body see.
a1748 I. Watts Improvem. Mind in Wks. (1813) VIII. xviii. 134 Little tricks of sophistry by sliding in, or leaving out, such words as entirely change the question, should be abandoned by all fair disputants.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor iv, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 77 Sliding into the Butler's hand the remuneration, which..was always given by a departing guest.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xlviii. 215 Gashford slid his cold insidious palm into his master's grasp.
1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. (1877) I. 44 He slides in immediately a very favourite maxim of the religious know-nothing school.
13. To move over, traverse, descend, etc., in a sliding manner.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move or cause to move progressively in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > cause to slip or slide > move over (something) in sliding manner
overslidea1522
slide1621
1621 R. Speght in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign James I (1847) 200 Like a ship that..slides the sea.
1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iv. iii. 194 The idle vessell slides the watry lay.
1770 S. Foote Lame Lover i. 12 Frederick Foretop, and I were carelessly sliding the Ranelagh round.
1776 S. Foote Bankrupt i. 4 I flatter'd myself with [the prospect of] gently sliding the down-hill of life.
14. With away: To spend in sliding.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move or cause to move progressively in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > cause to slip or slide > spend time in sliding
slide1827
1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 3 Or seeking bright glib ice to play And slide the wintry hours away.
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