slide /slīd/

1. To slip or glide
2. To pass along, over, down, etc smoothly
3. To glide or slip in a standing position (without skates or snowshoes) over ice or other slippery surface
4. To lapse, fall out of use
5. To pass quietly, smoothly, or gradually
6. To take its own course
7. To decamp (informal)

To cause to slip or glide along

1. A slip
2. A polished slippery track (on ice)
3. A chute or shoot
4. A slippery sloping surface, eg in a park, for children to slide down
5. A bed, groove, rail, etc, on or in which a thing slides
6. A sliding part, eg of a trombone
7. A sliding clasp, esp for women's hair
8. A flat piece of glass for mounting objects for the microscope
9. A case (dark slide) for photographic plates or its sliding cover
10. A translucent photograph for projection on a screen, a transparency
11. A sliding lid
12. A sledge
13. A runner
14. A sliding seat, esp in a rowing boat
15. A landslip
16. A gliding from one note to another (music)
17. A falling (in value, popularity, etc)
18. (with the) a rhythmic dance

slīdˈable adjective

slīdˈer noun

1. A person who or thing that slides
2. A sliding part
3. Ice-cream between wafers (Scot)
4. A red-bellied terrapin
5. A pitch that breaks in a horizontal plane (baseball)

slīdˈing noun and adjective

slīdˈingly adverb

slide fastener noun (N American)

A zip fastener

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