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

slide guitar noun

A method of playing the guitar using a metal tube which is drawn across the frets

slide projector noun

A device which projects an enlarged image of a photographic slide onto a wall or screen

slide rest noun (engineering)

An apparatus for carrying the cutting tool of a lathe, etc

slide rule noun

A calculating device consisting of two logarithmic graduated scales sliding one against the other (also slidˈing-rule)

slide trombone noun

A trombone

slide valve noun

A valve in which openings are covered and uncovered by a sliding part

sliding keel noun

A centreboard

sliding scale noun

1. A scale, eg of taxes, varying according to variation in something else, eg prices
2. A slide rule

sliding seat noun

A racing-boat seat, moving with the swing of the rower's body

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