slide
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Etymology
From Middle English sliden, from Old English slīdan (“to slide”), from Proto-Germanic *slīdanan (“to slide, glide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleidh- (“to slip”). Cognate with Old High German slītan (German schlittern, “to slide”), Middle Low German slīden (“to slide”), Middle Dutch slīden (Dutch sledderen, “to slide”).
[edit] Verb
slide (third-person singular simple present slides, present participle sliding, simple past and past participle slid)
- (transitive) To cause to move in continuous contact with a surface
- He slid the boat across the grass.
- (intransitive) To move in continuous contact with a surface.
- The safe slid slowly.
- (intransitive) To move on a low friction surface.
- The car slid on the ice.
- (intransitive, baseball) To drop down and skid into a base.
- Jones slid into second.
- (intransitive) To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
- He slid while going around the corner.
- (intransitive) To let pass without action.
- The administrator let the minor infraction slide with only a disapproving look.
[edit] Translations
to cause to move in contact with a surface
to move in continuous contact with a surface
to move with low friction
to lose balance
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[edit] Noun
slide (plural slides)
- A toy for children where they climb up and then slide down again.
- The long, red slide was great fun for the kids.
- The event of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones moving down the slope of a hill or from a mountain.
- The slide closed the highway.
- The act of sliding, moving downwards in general.
- 2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom”, BBC:
- But for West Brom it was further evidence they are struggling to arrest a slide down the table where they are now three points above the relegation zone after their sixth loss in seven league matches.
- 2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom”, BBC:
- A lever that can be moved in two directions.
- A valve that works by sliding such as in a trombone.
- A transparent image, to be projected to a screen.
- (baseball) The act of dropping down and skidding into a base
- (sciences) A flat, rectangular piece of glass on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope; a microscope slide.
- (music, guitar) A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.
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toy
rubble, earth and stones moving down
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act of sliding
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valve in eg. a trombone
transparent image for projecting
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microscope slide
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slide for playing slide guitar
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