slidingn.
/ˈslʌɪdɪŋ/ 1. The action of the verb in various senses (chiefly intransitive).
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [noun] > slipping or sliding
sliddering?c1225
slidingc1325
slitheringa1340
slipping1676
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > sliding
sliding1801
shirling1826
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(b)1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 140 This way of the Parliament tended to a tacite sliding him out of the Government of the Kingdome.c1325 Prose Ps. lv. 13 Þou deliuered..myn fete fram slydynge.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xx. 20 The slidyng of the false tunge [is] as he that is falling in the pament.
c1460 Contin. Brut ii. 460 The stretes were strawed thurghout for slidyng of theire horses.
1495 Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. vii. l. 263 The wombe is greuyd with slidynge and slippernesse.
1561 T. Norton & T. Sackville Gorboduc ii. i So slow a slidynge of his aged yeres.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. L2 The Dutch..[is so full of] Consonants, that they cannot yeeld the sweet slyding, fit for a Verse.
1605 J. Marston Dutch Courtezan ii. i Lying, malice, envie, are held but slidyngs.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 53 Extuberancies of Nail-heads would hinder the free sliding of the Quoins.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod ii. ii. 78 Sliding is but little practised, except by children.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xxviii. 395 A sliding of the particles of ice past each other.
1882 Standard 9 Dec. 2/8 The crew rapidly fell to pieces, the sliding being short, the time bad.
2. attributive.
a. In sense ‘on which sliding is performed’, as sliding-place, sliding-surface, sliding-way.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Babouïn,..a frozen place, whereon boyes vse to slide; a sliding place.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een glijd-baen, a Sliding path.
1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 157 On the top of the dam..[beavers] always leave a sluice or passage..; and when the stream is large, they leave two or three, which the hunters call sliding-places.
1839 R. S. Robinson Naut. Steam Engine Explained 48 The exterior of the valve slightly projects..in a line with the sliding surfaces.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2210/2 The sliding-ways are the inclined planes down which the vessel slides, and are made of planks 3 or 4 inches wide, laid on blocks of wood.
b. In sense ‘of the nature of, connected with, sliding’, as sliding contact, sliding motion, sliding principle.
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1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxiii. 144 All parts of Bodies must be easily separable by such a lateral sliding motion.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 664 The lights..should be of the usual sliding construction.
1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 378 A very considerable amount of the sliding motion of the metal would be called into play.
1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools 114 The acting surfaces of a pair of pieces in sliding contact.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2210/2 The gages used by carpenters and artificers generally are on the sliding principle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
slidingadj.
/ˈslʌɪdɪŋ/ I. That slides; slippery, gliding.
1. figurative.† b. Of persons: Slippery, unreliable; apt to fall or transgress. Obsolete.
a. That slides or slips away; transitory; unstable, inconstant; passing.
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the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective]
slidinga900
wankleeOE
windyc1000
unsteadfastc1200
fleeting?c1225
loose?c1225
brotelc1315
unstablec1340
varyingc1340
variantc1374
motleyc1380
ungroundedc1380
muablea1393
passiblea1393
remuablea1393
changeablea1398
movablea1398
variablec1397
slidderya1400
ticklec1400
variantc1412
flitting1413
mutable?a1425
movingc1425
flaskisable1430
flickering1430
transmutablec1430
vertible1447
brittlea1450
ficklea1450
permutablec1450
unfirmc1450
uncertain1477
turnable1483
unsteadfast1483
vagrantc1522
inconstant1526
alterable?1531
stirringc1540
slippery1548
various1552
slid?1553
mutala1561
rolling1561
weathery1563
unconstant1568
interchangeable1574
fluctuant1575
stayless1575
transitive1575
voluble1575
changeling1577
queasy1579
desultory1581
huff-puff1582
unstaid1586
vagrant1586
changeful1590
floating1594
Protean1594
unstayed1594
swimming1596
anchorless1597
mobilec1600
ticklish1601
catching1603
labile1603
unrooted1604
quicksilvered1605
versatile1605
insubstantial1607
uncertain1609
brandling1611
rootless1611
squeasy1611
wind-changinga1616
insolid1618
ambulatory1625
versatilous1629
plastic1633
desultorious1637
unbottomed1641
fluid1642
fluent1648
yea-and-nay1648
versipellous1650
flexile1651
uncentred1652
variating1653
chequered1656
slideable1662
transchangeative1662
weathercock-like1663
flicketing1674
fluxa1677
lapsable1678
wanton1681
veering1684
upon the weathercock1702
contingent1703
unsettled?1726
fermentable1731
afloat1757
brickle1768
wavy1795
vagarious1798
unsettled1803
fitful1810
metamorphosical1811
undulating1815
tittupya1817
titubant1817
mutative1818
papier mâché1818
teetotum1819
vacillating1822
capricious1823
sensitive1828
quicksilvery1829
unengrafted1829
fluxionala1834
proteiform1833
liquid1835
tottlish1835
kaleidoscopic1846
versative1846
kaleidoscopical1858
tottery1861
choppy1865
variative1874
variational1879
wimbly-wambly1881
fluctuable1882
shifty1882
giveable1884
shifty1884
tippy1886
mutatory1890
upsettable1890
rocky1897
undulatory1897
streaky1898
tottly1905
tipply1906
up and down1907
inertialess1927
sometimey1946
rise-and-fall1950
switchable1961
the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [adjective]
slidinga900
scrithingOE
henwardOE
swifta1225
short livya1325
passing1340
flittingc1374
shadowy1374
temporalc1384
speedfula1400
transitory?c1400
brittlea1425
unabidingc1430
frail?c1450
indurablec1450
scrithel?c1475
caduke1483
transitorious1492
passanta1500
perishinga1500
caducea1513
fugitive?1518
caducal?1548
quick1548
delible1549
flittering1549
undurable?1555
shadowish1561
fleeting1563
vading1566
flightful1571
wanzing1571
transitive1575
slipping1581
diary1583
unlasting1585
never-lasting1588
flit1590
post-like1594
running1598
short-lived1598
short-winded1598
transient1599
unpermanent1607
flashy1609
of a day1612
passable1613
dureless1614
urgenta1616
waxena1616
decayable1617
horary1620
evanid1626
fugitable1628
short-dated1632
fugacious1635
ephemerala1639
impermanent1653
fungous1655
volatile1655
ephemerousa1660
unimmortal1667
timesome1674
while-being1674
of passage1680
journal1685
ephemeron1714
admovent1727
evanescent1728
meteorous1750
deciduous1763
preterient1786
ephemeridal1795
meteorica1802
meteor1803
ephemerean1804
ephemerid1804
evanescing1805
fleeted1810
fleet1812
unenduring1814
unremaining1817
unimmortalized1839
impersistent1849
flighty1850
uneternal1862
caducous1863
diurnal1866
horarious1866
brisk1879
evasive1881
picaresque1959
a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 22 Aug. 150 Ne do ic þæt, forðon þe þeos mennisce tyddernes bið swa slidende swa þæt glæs.
a1000 Saxon Leechd. I. p. lviii Fleog þu wesan ealdor slidendes plegan.
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) i. met. v. 22 Whi suffrest þou þat slidyng fortune turneþ to grete vtter chaungynges of þinges.
c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 179 That slidynge science hath me maad so bare, That I haue no good.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 258 The slydand joy, the glaidnes schort.
1601 S. Daniel Ciuill Warres (rev. ed.) ii. xxxi. f. 21, in Wks. The slyding fayth of those That cannot long their resolution hold.
1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. ix. sig. I3 Wee dye with doing that, for which onely, our sliding life was granted.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 12 His Name who made the Sphere, And shew'd the Seasons of the sliding Year.
1765 E. Thompson Meretriciad 11 Erase thy vices with the sliding day.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > unreliability > [adjective] > of persons
slipperc1000
ficklea1275
untristya1387
flickering1430
untrusty1430
slidingc1435
unsurec1445
untraistc1485
unassure1531
slippery1555
untraisty1567
untrustful1569
unresponsable1619
uncanny1639
fair-weather1677
unresponsible1764
independable1802
unreliable1810
untrustworthy1846
undependable1860
incalculable1876
slithery1902
wonky1919
doubtful1925
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > [adjective] > liable to
slidingc1435
recidive1537
recidivous1658
c1435 in C. L. Kingsford Chron. London (1905) 45 A man, the which is nat slyding in his tunge.
c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi i. iv. 6 Þei knowiþ mannys infirmite redy to euel & sliding ynow in wordes.
c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. xxii. 90 I am so slidyng & so weike to wiþstonde passions.
2. Slippery; steeply sloping. rare.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] > inclined from level or sloping > steep (except of hills, etc.)
staira1175
slidingc1325
steepa1400–50
side?a1475
right-up1511
steep-down1530
steepwise1542
headlonga1557
steep-up?a1560
pitch hill1560
pendent1587
high-pitched1596
steeped1596
perpendicular1598
steepy1735
declivitous1799
steepish1814
escarped1853
steep-cut1888
swooping1956
the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > smoothness > [adjective] > smooth and slippery > specific on which one may slip
sliddera1000
slidderya1250
slipperc1290
slidingc1325
slithera1340
glintc1475
slippery1535
slippy1548
sliddy1623
slidy1880
skiddy1902
c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 160 Le chimyn trop lidaunt, slidery (sclidinde).
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 157 By fertill vale of Pelethun his slyding roade.
1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. iii. 56 A hill whose sliding sides A goodly flocke, like winters cou'ring hides.
3.
a. That moves by sliding or slipping; flowing, gliding, etc.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [adjective] > slipping or sliding
slithinga1300
slidingc1374
slipping1435
labent1727
slithering1864
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) v. metr. ii. 152 Þe flowynge ordre of þe slidyng water.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 2976 The slydande spere of his hande sleppes!
1483 Cath. Angl. 323/1 Sclydynge, labens.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 162 Quhat is this lyfe bot..A slyding quheill ws lent to seik remeid.
1562 Bp. J. Pilkington Expos. Abdyas Pref. 8 Safelye slips away the slyding shippe.
1616 B. Jonson Entertainm. at Highgate 148 in Wks. I The many falls Of sweete, and seuerall sliding rills.
1637 J. Milton Comus 30 By the rushie fringed banke..My sliding chariot stayes.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 126 Thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 664 The laws which regulate the friction of rolling and sliding bodies.
1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 222 Sliding reptiles of the ground, Startlingly beautiful.
b. Accompanied by a sliding movement.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [adjective] > slipping or sliding > accompanied by sliding movement
sliding1796
1796 Hist. Ned Evans I. 198 Lord Rivers advancing to Edward with a sliding bow.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor viii*, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 197 Craigengelt..made a sliding bow to the Marquis.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice II. v. vi. 152 Mrs. Merton, with a sliding bow, had already quitted her room.
1948 Assoc. Football (‘Know the Game’ Series) 31/2 A sliding tackle done fairly is not dangerous.., especially when clear contact is made with the ball, and should therefore not be penalised.
1974 Liverpool Echo (Football ed.) 12 Oct. 1/2 Foggon went racing through again, but Boersma took the ball off him with a splendid sliding tackle.
4. Of language or music: Flowing easily.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective] > fluent or unforced
gentc1390
renablec1410
flowing1553
round1565
unracked1572
current1577
ready1583
voluble1598
facile1607
unforceda1616
fluent1625
sliding1627
unstudied1657
flippanta1677
easy1711
fast-flowing1770
fluida1794
superfluent1917
1627 M. Drayton Elegies in Battaile Agincourt 207 Dainty Sands that hath to English done, Smooth sliding Ouid.
1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Epistles i. 2 in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) His Speech was rather Easie, and Sliding, than Quick.
1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile 560, in Poems I I think that they With sliding voices lean from heavenly towers.
1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 399/2 Sliding relish,..a grace in old harpsichord music.
1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 156 His attempts to naturalize the sliding rhymes of Sannazzaro in English.
II. Technical uses.
5. Of a knot: made so as to slip along a cord; running.
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1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Corrediza A sliding knot.
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 34 b/2 We must tye the endes of the threde together, and with a slidinge knott binde the same together.
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 253 I..knit a sliding knot vpon the instep of one of his feete.
a1830 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) III. 26/1 If one or many of the fixed knots..be replaced by sliding knots, or moveable rings.
6. Nautical, etc.
a. sliding keel n. an extra deep keel which slides vertically through the bottom of a vessel. Also attributive.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > bottom or part under water > [noun] > keel and kelson > keel > types of
sliding keel1797
centreboard1828
bilge-keel1850
ram1851
rocker1859
sidebar keel1869
bar-keel1874
plate-keel1874
bilge-piece1880
fin1885
bulb-keel1893
fin-keel1893
ballast fin1894
bulb-fin1894
plate1895
drop-keel1896
1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 376/1 Captain Schank's vessel with three sliding keels beat the other vessel.
1802 Naval Chron. 7 40 The idea of sliding keels is taken from the balza of South America.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. Explan. Terms 148 Sliding keels, an invention of..Captain Schank, of the Royal Navy, to prevent vessels being driven to leeward by a side wind.
1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xxxv. 77 ‘That one you saw was a cutter..,’ he replied. ‘Built on the sliding-keel principle.’
b. In various uses (see quots.).Nautical, see sliding-gunter at Gunter n. 2a.
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1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor iv, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 57 As bold a smuggler as ever ran out a sliding bowsprit.
1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 34 The planks fitted under the bottom of the ship to descend with her upon the bilge-ways, are termed sliding planks, sliding baulks, or bilge coads.
c. sliding seat n. a seat in an outrigger which moves backwards and forwards with the action of the rower; also, a seat which can be slid out beyond the gunwale of a yacht.
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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
1874 Ann. Reg., Chron. 36 The sliding seats, which were used for the first time in this race, must be pronounced a complete success.
1884 St. James's Gaz. 29 Mar. 6/1 University crews have rowed the course on sliding seats.
1895 Outing 26 463 ‘Sliding-seats’ began to get longer and longer, until the champion sailed, not in his boat, but stretched entirely outside of it.
7. † b. So sliding gauge, Sliding Gunter (see quots.). Obsolete.
a. sliding rule n. a mathematical gauging or measuring instrument consisting of two graduated parts, one of which slides upon the other, and so arranged that when brought into proper juxtaposition the required result may be obtained by inspection. Now usually slide rule n.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] > arithmetical instrument > sliding ruler
slide rule1663
sliding rule1663
sliding gauge1683
sliding scale1706
logarithmical scales1728
nonius1732
1663 S. Pepys Diary 15 Apr. (1971) IV. 104 Reading of my book of Timber measure, comparing it with my new Sliding rule.
1684 T. Everard (title) Stereometry made easie, or the description and use of a new gauging rod or sliding-rule.
1701 T. Tuttell Descr. Math. Instruments in J. Moxon Math. made Easie (ed. 3) 19 Sliding Rules, for gauging and measuring; ingeniously contrived and applied.
1798 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Jan. 450 (title) On the Advantage of inverting the Slider in many Operations on the Common Sliding Rule.
1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic xi. 294 The figures..were not exhibited to the eye as in sliding rules and similar instruments.
1895 Daily News 20 Nov. 9/4 A small sliding rule gives the value of any required number of shares at the above fractions at any necessary numerator.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] > arithmetical instrument > sliding ruler
slide rule1663
sliding rule1663
sliding gauge1683
sliding scale1706
logarithmical scales1728
nonius1732
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 84 The Sliding Gage is..a Tool commonly used by Mathematical Instrument-Makers... Its Use is to measure and set off Distances between the Sholder and the Tooth, and to mark it off from the end, or else from the edge of your Work.
1701 T. Tuttell Descr. Math. Instruments in J. Moxon Math. made Easie (ed. 3) 18 Sliding Gunter, made of Box, with a middle piece that slides between 2 pieces, with Lines to answer Proportions by inspection: chiefly used by Mariners.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Gunter's-Scale, called also by Navigators absolutely the Gunter is a large Plain Scale, with divers Lines thereon... The same Lines are also occasionally laid down on Rulers to slide by each other; hence called Sliding-Gunters.
8. sliding scale:attributive.1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. xiv. 189 During the existence of the sliding-scale system of duties.1882 Daily News 3 June 6/4 The leaping prizes..are arranged on a sliding-scale principle.
a. A sliding rule.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] > arithmetical instrument > sliding ruler
slide rule1663
sliding rule1663
sliding gauge1683
sliding scale1706
logarithmical scales1728
nonius1732
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Sliding-Rules or Scales, are Mathematical Instruments [etc.].
1788 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 78 126 A small thermometer with a sliding scale.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2210/2 Sliding-scale, a rule with a sliding member.
b. A scale or standard (of payments, wages, etc.) which rises or falls in proportion to, or conversely to, the rise or fall of some other standard.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > [noun] > measurement or grading according to scale > a scale
scale1780
sliding scale1842
1842 C. Guest Jrnl. 14 Feb. (1950) vii. 129 His opinion that in times of scarcity the fixed duty he proposes would have to give way, which is exactly the argument the Tories use when advocating the sliding scale.
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. iii. 71 Neither do we ascertain what kind of Corn-bill he passed, or wisely-adjusted Sliding-scale.
1869 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Gleanings I. 183 The agricultural interest suffered…and we owed the latest sliding-scale to their importunities.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 226 Sliding Scale, a mode of regulating the amount of wages in mining districts by taking as a basis for calculation the market value of coal or iron.
9.
a. sliding hernia n. (Medicine) (see quot. 1958).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [noun] > hernia or rupture
herniac1386
crepaturec1400
ramex?a1425
rupture?a1425
burstenness1483
rimburst1505
ruption?1541
mollification1543
bursting1544
burstness1552
film-bursting1578
bubonocele1597
rimburstennessc1600
burstning1607
gut-bursten1607
strangulated hernia1771
hypogastrocele1811
herniation1897
sliding hernia1910
incisional hernia1912
Morgagni hernia1958
1910 Spencer & Gask Pract. Surg. xvii. 995 Retro~peritoneal hernia... The cæcum or sigmoid flexure may slide up and down behind the peritoneum, ‘Sliding hernia’, ‘Hernie par glissement’.
1936 Cole & Elman Textbk. Gen. Surg. xxv. 753 Sliding hernias descend so readily that a truss is rarely satisfactory in maintaining reduction.
1958 D. L. B. Farley in L. Oliver Basic Surg. xiii. 198 Hernia ‘en glissade’ (‘sliding’ hernia) refers to herniation of a viscus such as the cæcum or bladder which has an extraperitoneal surface.
1974 R. M. Kirk et al. Surgery vi. 78 Sliding hernia. If the lower oesophagus and cardia straighten out and slide into the chest, the competence of the cardiac sphincter may be impaired so that gastric contents reflux into the oesophagus.
b. sliding filament n. (Physiology), used attributively to designate the model of the action of striated muscle in which contraction results from filaments of actin and of myosin sliding past one another.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > [noun] > muscular movement
porrection1649
abduction1657
cringing1728
antagonism1744
peristalsis1847
musculation1853
fibrillation1882
jerk1895
protraction1899
flexing1902
stretch reflex1916
fasciculation1938
sliding filament1957
1957 Jrnl. Biophys. & Biochem. Cytol. 3 640 The results which have been described above give full support to the ‘sliding filament model’ of striated muscle.
1973 Times 14 Aug. 14/7 This..provided the main basis for the ‘sliding filament’ theory of muscle contraction, now universally accepted.
10. sliding parity n. (Economics) = crawling peg n. at crawling adj. b.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > money-changing > rate of exchange > marginally adjustable
crawling peg1966
sliding parity1966
1966 Economist 25 June 1440/2 A tiny minority advocates completely free exchange markets... Possibly a majority favours continued official intervention to set limits to market fluctuations... But an increasing minority favours a compromise system, variously called the crawling peg..or..the sliding parity.
1970 Times 9 Feb. 20/1 It sets out to demolish the arguments of those who are..downright hostile to the introduction of the so called sliding parity or crawling peg.
Compounds
C1. Designating parts of apparatus or machinery which slide, or are characterized by some sliding device.
sliding-bar n.
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1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. Digest 54 (note) The Sliding bar..ought to be set at such a depth, as..to have a collection of mould before it.
1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 293 By means of the sliding-bar..this instrument can be adapted to reduce from negatives of almost any size.
sliding carriage n.
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1849 Mechanics' Mag. Apr. 314 The sliding carriage in or upon which is to be placed any log..intended to be cut.
sliding change gear n.
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1907 Daily Mail Year Bk. 73/1 M M. de Kuyff and Gharron..have not contributed much towards development, the sliding change gear being their chief point.
sliding-collar n.
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1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xiv. 239 The Neck of the Sliding Collar.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 125 The balls will fall towards each other, and let down the sliding collar.
sliding gear n.
sliding inductance n.
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1926 R. W. Hutchinson First Course Wireless 77 The sliding inductance consists of a single layer of enamelled copper wire wound on an insulating tube.
sliding-joint n.
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1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 225 Sliding Joint, a boring rod made in two portions, one sliding within the other.
sliding key n.
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1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools Pl.L 2 The spindle is keyed by a sliding key.
sliding piece n.
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1711 London Gaz. No. 4855/4 A Silver Jewel Watch,..the sliding Piece on the Dyal-plate.
1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 175/1 Instead of fixing the wire to the telescope tube, it is stretched across a sliding-piece.
sliding plate n.
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1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 325 The nuts of the screws..are not screwed fast to the sliding plates.
sliding rest n.
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1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. x. 49 The same process by the aid of the lathe and the sliding-rest.
sliding ring n.
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1932 Hardy's Anglers' Guide 340 Hardy ‘Suction’ Joint and fixed metal housing for one end of reel seat and long sliding ring for the other end.
sliding shears n.
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1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 44 Some very handsome pruning instruments of the sliding-shears description.
sliding tonga n.
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1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 862 Small wires and other pieces are also held in a species of pliers,..called pin-tongs, or sliding-tongs.
sliding vane n.
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1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 350/2 The method of reading the figures of the stave itself, instead of the sliding vane.
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sliding contact n. [sliding n. 2b] a connection in an electric circuit that can be slid along a length of resistance wire.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > resistance > [noun] > movable contact
slider1872
sliding contact1872
slide-wire1885
1872 Jrnl. Soc. Telegr. Engineers 1 208 The wire with sliding contact was apt to wear if much used.
1906 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. s.v. Wheatstone's Bridge The other end terminates in a sliding contact which can be moved along till a ‘balance’ is obtained.
1926 R. W. Hutchinson First Course Wireless 77 Sliding contacts can be moved to and fro along two brass sliding rails.
1971 B. Scharf Engin. & its Lang. xxi. 307 In order to vary the value of one of the known resistances a rheostat may be used, or two of the known resistances may be replaced by a single wire of known resistance with a sliding contact.
sliding valve n. [slide-valve n.]
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > control(s) > [noun] > valve > slide
slide-valve1802
sliding valve1909
1909 Westm. Gaz. 11 Nov. 5/1 The new Daimler engine may be said to have brought us to the end of the first stage of the sliding-valve principle.
C3. Designating doors, lids, panels, etc., which are opened or shut by sliding.
sliding-board n.
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1715 J. T. Desaguliers tr. N. Gauger Fires Improv'd 96 There must be sliding Boards, or Doors.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 983 At the pit mouth, where shutters or sliding boards must be used.
sliding-door n.
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1829 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 104 They must all admit of communication..by sliding Double Doors.
1887 Times 14 Oct. 3/6 A short tramcar,..having a sliding door at each end.
sliding-hatch n.
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1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. Gloss. Sliding hatches, covers or shutters fitted in grooves.
sliding-lid n.
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1894 A. Conan Doyle Mem. Sherlock Holmes 100 A small wooden box, with a sliding lid.
sliding-panel n.
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a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) II. v. 76 Have you a stout heart?—Nerves fit for sliding pannels and tapestry? View more context for this quotation
1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic xi. 275 The chess-player may be introduced into the chest through the sliding panel.
1862 Chambers's Encycl. III. 93/1 Later in the reign, the royal carriages had sliding panels.
sliding-roof n.
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1929 Motor World 29 Mar. 199/1 One or other of the various types of sun-saloons (folding or sliding roof) may be offered at an extra charge.
1959 Observer 1 Mar. 21/6 Although many will welcome the sliding roof, the handle is rather prominent.
sliding-shutter n.
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1765 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. II. at Madder The sliding-shutters are pulled down.
1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts Sluice,..a description of sliding shutter made in a lock or flood-gate.
1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. xii. 131 The air can enter into the various compartments through sliding shutters or louvres.
sliding-window n.
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1724 in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1911) 6 1 Two sliding windows..with good frame shutters.
1880 Dict. Leading Techn. & Trade Terms Archit. Design & Building Construction 207/1 Another form of opening and closing window is one used in domestic structures of a humble character, and termed a ‘sliding’, sometimes a ‘rolling window’.
1976 H. MacInnes Agent in Place xxv. 260 A stretch of sliding windows opening onto a balcony.
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