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Slide   /slaɪd/   Listen
Slide

noun
1.
A small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study.  Synonym: microscope slide.
2.
(geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc..
3.
(music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale.  Synonym: swoop.
4.
Plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide.  Synonyms: playground slide, sliding board.
5.
The act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it.  Synonyms: coast, glide.  "The children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope"
6.
A transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector.  Synonym: lantern slide.
7.
Sloping channel through which things can descend.  Synonyms: chute, slideway, sloping trough.
verb
(past slid; past part. slidden; pres. part. slidding)
1.
Move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner.  Synonyms: skid, slew, slip, slue.
2.
To pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly.  Synonym: slither.
3.
Move smoothly along a surface.



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"Slide" Quotes from Famous Books



... Look, I was going to say: I love this maiden! I would die for her. I have loved her long. This night she has given me a witness that my love is not vain. I am poor. She is rich. I am poor, I said, and feel richer than the Kaiser with this she has given me! Look, it is what our German girls slide in their back-hair, ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... of having a thought. He not only puts a microscope to his eyes to know with, but his eyes have ingrown microscopes. The microscope has become a part of his eyes. He cannot see anything without putting it on a slide, and when his microscope will not focus it, and it cannot be reduced and explained, he explains that ...
— The Lost Art of Reading • Gerald Stanley Lee
... disease," said I, "must have a desperate cure; I know no better expedient of our delivery, than to slide into the long boat, and cutting the cord, leave the rest to Fortune: Nor do I desire Eumolpus to share the danger: For what wou'd it signifie to involve an innocent person in other mens deserv'd misfortunes? We shall think our selves happy, if ...
— The Satyricon • Petronius Arbiter
... He let himself slide to the earth, and lay down beside his horse, his throat burning, his chest heaving, and his head going round. Already he felt that death was near him, when his eyes fell on the bag ...
— The Red Fairy Book • Various
... far as we're concerned." Brandon shrugged his shoulders. "She's been kicking around under foot ever since she was knee high to a duck—we gave her her first lessons on a slide rule." ...
— Spacehounds of IPC • Edward Elmer Smith


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