slide
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
slide
n 1: a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens
can be mounted for microscopic study [syn: {slide},
{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; "the
violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides" [syn:
{swoop}, {slide}]
4: plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children
can slide [syn: {slide}, {playground slide}, {sliding board}]
5: the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in
contact with it; "his slide didn't stop until the bottom of
the hill"; "the children lined up for a coast down the snowy
slope" [syn: {slide}, {glide}, {coast}]
6: a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide
projector [syn: {slide}, {lantern slide}]
7: sloping channel through which things can descend [syn:
{chute}, {slide}, {slideway}, {sloping trough}]
v 1: move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled
manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk" [syn:
{skid}, {slip}, {slue}, {slew}, {slide}]
2: to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly; "They slid through
the wicket in the big gate" [syn: {slither}, {slide}]
3: move smoothly along a surface; "He slid the money over to the
other gambler"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Slide \Slide\, v. t.
1. To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece
of timber along another.
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2. To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a
word to vary the sense of a question.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Slide \Slide\, n. [AS. sl[imac]de.]
1. The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice.
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2. Smooth, even passage or progress.
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A better slide into their business. --Bacon.
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3. That on which anything moves by sliding. Specifically:
(a) An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the
force of gravity, esp. one constructed on a mountain
side for conveying logs by sliding them down.
(b) A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for
amusement.
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4. That which operates by sliding. Specifically:
(a) A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding
over it.
(b) (Mach.) A moving piece which is guided by a part or
parts along which it slides.
(c) A clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like.
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5. A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or
delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern,
stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object
to be examined with a microscope.
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6. The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill
or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also,
the track of bare rock left by a land slide.
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7. (Geol.) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line
of fissure. --Dana.
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8. (Mus.)
(a) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving
by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note
either above or below.
(b) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the
sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to
produce the tones between the fundamental and its
harmonics.
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9. (Phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the
position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into
another sound.
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10. (Steam Engine)
(a) Same as {Guide bar}, under {Guide}.
(b) A slide valve.
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{Slide box} (Steam Engine), a steam chest. See under {Steam}.
{Slide lathe}, an engine lathe. See under {Lathe}.
{Slide rail}, a transfer table. See under {Transfer}.
{Slide rest} (Turning lathes), a contrivance for holding,
moving, and guiding, the cutting tool, made to slide on
ways or guides by screws or otherwise, and having compound
motion.
{Slide rule}, a mathematical instrument consisting of two
parts, one of which slides upon the other, for the
mechanical performance of addition and subtraction, and,
by means of logarithmic scales, of multiplication and
division.
{Slide valve}.
(a) Any valve which opens and closes a passageway by
sliding over a port.
(b) A particular kind of sliding valve, often used in
steam engines for admitting steam to the piston and
releasing it, alternately, having a cuplike cavity in
its face, through which the exhaust steam passes. It
is situated in the steam chest, and moved by the
valve gear. It is sometimes called a {D valve}, -- a
name which is also applied to a semicylindrical pipe
used as a sliding valve.
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of a steam engine, in which plays the piston p; b the
steam chest, receiving its supply from the pipe i,
and containing the slide valve s, which is shown as
admitting steam to one end of the cylinder through
the port e, and opening communication between the
exhaust passage f and the port c, for the release of
steam from the opposite end of the cylinder.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Slide \Slide\, v. t. [imp. {Slid}; p. p. {Slidden}, {Slid}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Slidding}.] [OE. sliden, AS. sl[imac]dan; akin
to MHG. sl[imac]ten, also to AS. slidor slippery, E. sled,
Lith. slidus slippery. Cf. {Sled}.]
1. To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or
without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow
slides down the mountain's side.
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2. Especially, to move over snow or ice with a smooth,
uninterrupted motion, as on a sled moving by the force of
gravity, or on the feet.
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They bathe in summer, and in winter slide. --Waller.
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3. To pass inadvertently.
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Beware thou slide not by it. --Ecclus.
xxviii. 26.
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4. To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently
onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat
slides through the water.
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Ages shall slide away without perceiving. --Dryden.
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Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
--Pope.
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5. To slip when walking or standing; to fall.
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Their foot shall slide in due time. --Deut. xxxii.
35.
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6. (Mus.) To pass from one note to another with no
perceptible cassation of sound.
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7. To pass out of one's thought as not being of any
consequence. [Obs. or Colloq.]
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With good hope let he sorrow slide. --Chaucer.
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With a calm carelessness letting everything slide.
--Sir P.
Sidney.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
222 Moby Thesaurus words for "slide":
Photostat, Telephoto, Wirephoto, Xerox, Xerox copy, advance,
aerial photograph, aerophone, alabaster, avalanche, be effortless,
be painless, bell, billiard table, black-and-white photograph,
blowup, blueprint, bolt-hole, bowling alley, bowling green,
candid photograph, cheesecake, chronophotograph, coast, coasting,
color photograph, color print, contact printing, continue, crawl,
creep, cyanotype, decline, decrease, diapositive, die, dip,
double reed, downslide, downswing, downtrend, downturn, drift,
drop, drop off, ebb, ejection seat, elapse, embouchure,
emergency exit, endure, enlargement, escape hatch, expire, fade,
fail, fall, fall away, fall off, falloff, fire escape, flat, flit,
flow, flow on, flowing, fly, forget, give no trouble, glass, glide,
gliding, glissade, glissando, gloss over, glossy, go by, go down,
go downhill, go easily, go like clockwork, go off, go on,
heliochrome, heliograph, hit a slump, hit rock bottom,
hit the skids, hologram, horn, ice, ice-skate, ignore,
inflatable slide, ivory, key, landslide, landslip, lantern slide,
lapse, last, let slide, level, life buoy, life net, life raft,
lifeboat, lifeline, lip, lurk, mahogany, marble, matte, microcopy,
microprint, montage, mouse, mouthpiece, move, mug, mug shot,
neglect, pass, pass by, pass over, photo, photobiography,
photochronograph, photocopy, photograph, photogravure, photomap,
photomicrograph, photomontage, photomural, photostatic copy,
picture, pinup, pipe, plane, portrait, positive,
present no difficulties, press on, print, proceed,
projection printing, reach the depths, reed, roll, roll on,
roller-skate, run, run down, run its course, run on, run out,
run smoothly, sag, sail, sailing, sally port, satin, semi-matte,
shift, shirk, shot, sideslip, silk, sink, skate, skateboard,
skating, ski, skid, skiing, skim, skulk, sled, sledding, sleigh,
slick, slidder, slide down, sliding, slink, slip, slippage,
slipping, slither, slithering, slump, slur, smooth, snake, snap,
snapshot, snowslide, snowslip, spill, steal, still,
still photograph, stream, subside, subsidence, sweep, sweeping,
telephotograph, tennis court, toboggan, tobogganing, tooter,
touch bottom, transparency, tumble, valve, velvet, wane, wind,
wind instrument, work well
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