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slide
I. \ˈslīd\ verb
(slid \ˈslid\ ; or dialect slod \ˈsläd\ ; or archaic slided ; slid or archaic slidden \ˈslidən\ ; sliding ; slides)
Etymology: Middle English sliden, from Old English slīdan to glide, slip, backslide; akin to Middle High German slīten to slide, Greek olisthanein to slip, glide, fall, Sanskrit sredhati he errs, blunders, Greek leios smooth — more at lime
intransitive verb
1.
a. : to go with a smooth continuous motion : glide
< fishes … sliding swiftly from your boat — American Guide Series: Florida >
< a little red convertible slid up the … driveway — S.A.Offit >
< shadows slid along the huge wooden tables — Sinclair Lewis >
b. : to coast over a surface (as snow or ice) by means of gravity or momentum
< a startled dog slides toward the skaters on all four feet >
< slide downhill on a toboggan >
< when the glacier slid down across New England — L.K.Porritt >
c. : to drop down and approach a base in baseball along the ground usually feet first with the weight of the body carried on one hip
< slid safely into third base ahead of the catcher's throw >
2.
a.
(1) : to suffer a moral relapse : backslide
< lead me in all thy righteous ways, nor suffer me to slide — Charles Wesley >
(2) : to take a downward turn
< if the readjustment … slides into a recession — Fortune >
b. : to slip or fall by loss of footing
< stumbled over a log and slid down the slope >
c. : to change position or become dislocated : shift, slip
< the packages slide from her arms >
< rain slid off the smooth hide of the mountains — G.T.Nunn >
3. : to become dissipated : vanish
< it was inevitable that existentialism should slide out of men's minds — Norman Cousins >
4.
a. : to slither along the ground : crawl, wriggle
< began their advance, one sliding forward on his stomach — Georg Meyers >
b. : to stream along : flow, pour
< walked … along the dark sliding river — Irwin Shaw >
5.
a. : to pass effortlessly or unobserved : drift — used of time
< how happily must my old age slide away — Henry Fielding >
b. : to become readily transferred or diverted
< his eye slides from the printed page to the wonderful world outdoors >
c. : to take a natural course
< finds it easier to let things slide than to insist on strict observance of the rules >
d. : to get along with a minimum of effort
< this means doing your best, not just sliding through — Boy Scout Handbk. >
6.
a. : to move softly or unobtrusively : disappear surreptitiously : sneak, steal
< slid behind the bole of a fir tree — F.V.W.Mason >
< after playing to empty benches for two nights, they slid out of town — American Guide Series: Washington >
b. : to pass easily or gradually
< slide into a reverie — John Masters >
c. : to become gradually transformed
< may not godly authority imperceptibly slide over into plain tyranny — V.L.Parrington >
d. : to pass by gradations from one pitch to another without cessation of sound
< sliding … is another undesirable feature of singing — Sergius Kagen >
transitive verb
1.
a. : to cause to glide or slip
< slid the car to the curb — Erle Stanley Gardner >
< slide the left ski forward, then the right >
b. : to traverse in a sliding manner
< firemen slide the poles to the street floor >
2. : to put or introduce surreptitiously
< slid the gun out of sight under his coat — Raymond Chandler >
< the danger of … getting an emperor or a king or a dictator slid over on them — Dorothy C. Fisher >
3. : to place (as an alphabetic sequence) beside another sequence in various juxtapositions at each of which the letters of one correspond one-to-one to those of the other
II. noun
(-s)
1.
a. : an act or instance of sliding: as
(1) : a transit over a slippery surface
< a skier's hunger for more slides … per weekend — William Gilman >
(2) : chassé
(3) : the distance the fork moves after drop lock in a lever-escapement watch to reach the banking pin
(4) : a sliding approach to a base in baseball — compare hook slide
b.
(1) archaic : a smooth progression
< verses, that have a slide, and easiness — Francis Bacon >
(2) : a lapse in morals or fortunes
< if he should … discover a bit of backward slide in himself — H.A.Overstreet >
(3) : a downward turn
< action to halt the economic slide — S.H.Slichter >
c.
(1) : a musical grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by adjacent degrees and leading to a principal note either above or below
(2) : portamento
2. : a sliding part or mechanism: as
a. : any of various clothing ornaments that slide on and hold by gripping
< tie slide >
< belt slide >
b.
(1) : a U-shaped section of tube in the trombone that is pushed out and in to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics
(2) : a short tube that is used in most metal wind instruments to adjust the pitch
c.
(1) : a moving piece (as the ram of a punch press) that is guided by a part along which it slides
< slide valve >
(2) : a guiding surface (as a feeding mechanism) along which something slides — compare cross slide
d. : sliding seat
e. : a small runner to which something is attached to guide it along a track
< the luff of the sail … is sewn on to slides which run in a metal track along the after side of the mast — F.E.Dodman >
f.
(1) : the knee of a composing stick
(2) : a slugcasting-machine matrix for casting rules or borders
g. : a cryptographical device resembling a slide rule with a fixed member usually carrying one alphabetic sequence and a double-length sliding member another one repeated
3.
a.
(1) : the descent of a mass (as of earth, rock, or snow) down a hill or mountainside
< a slide of rock >
— used chiefly in combination
< landslide >
< snowslide >
(2) : the track left by a slide
(3) : a mass of debris deposited by a slide
b. : a dislocation in which one rock mass in a mining lode has slid on another : fault
4. : a drag or sledge for transporting heavy loads over a relatively smooth surface
< cut the last of the crop and … hauled it on a slide to the tobacco barn — Elizabeth M. Roberts >
— called also slider
5.
a.
(1) : a slippery surface for coasting or sliding
< ski slide >
< toboggan slide >
(2) : a chute with a flat polished bed sloping down from the top of a mounting ladder
< playground slide >
< gave him a slide for his swimming pool — British Books of the Month >
b. : a channel or track on which something is slid
< pushed the heavy door on the slide and … followed him into the barn — Astrid Peters >
c. : a sloping trough down which objects are carried by gravity
< log slide >
d. : an inclined plane on moist soil adjoining water and smoothed by otters or occasionally other aquatic mammals at play
e. or slide stacker : an inclined plane up which hay is drawn for stacking
6.
a. : a usually rectangular piece of glass on which an object is mounted for microscopic examination
b.
(1) : a photographic transparency on a small plate or film suitably protected for projection — see filmslide, lantern slide
(2) : dark slide
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