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What (who) is Slide - definition
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Slides; Slide (disambiguation); Slide (music); Slide (song); Slide (album); Slide (EP)
slide
(slides, sliding, slid)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
When something slides somewhere or when you slide it there, it moves there smoothly over or against something.
She slid the door open...
I slid the wallet into his pocket...
Tears were sliding down his cheeks.
VERB: V n with adj, V n prep/adv, V prep/adv
2.
If you slide somewhere, you move there smoothly and quietly.
He slid into the driver's seat...
VERB: V prep/adv
3.
To slide into a particular mood, attitude, or situation means to gradually start to have that mood, attitude, or situation often without intending to.
She had slid into a depression...
= slip
VERB: V into n
4.
If currencies or prices slide, they gradually become worse or lower in value. (JOURNALISM)
The US dollar continued to slide...
Shares slid 11p to 293p after brokers downgraded their profit estimates...
VERB: V, V amount
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Slide is also a noun.
...the dangerous slide in oil prices.
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5.
A slide is a small piece of photographic film which you project onto a screen so that you can see the picture.
...a slide show.
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6.
A slide is a piece of glass on which you put something that you want to examine through a microscope.
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7.
A slide is a piece of playground equipment that has a steep slope for children to go down for fun.
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8.
If you let something slide, you allow it to get into a worse state or condition by not attending to it.
The company had let environmental standards slide.
PHRASE: let inflects
Slide
<project> A now-retired Jakarta project to develop a
repository for content management. Slide is no longer in
development. It featured WebDAV, DeltaV WebDAV versioning,
different databases and file system storage, transactions and
locking, flexible permissions per file and more.
slide/">Slide home (http://jakarta.apache.org/slide/).
(2008-06-04)
Slide
·noun A slide valve.
II. Slide ·vt To pass inadvertently.
III. Slide ·noun That which operates by sliding.
IV. Slide ·noun Smooth, even passage or progress.
V. Slide ·noun That on which anything moves by sliding.
VI. Slide ·noun A clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like.
VII. Slide ·noun The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice.
VIII. Slide ·noun A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
IX. Slide ·noun ·same·as Guide bar, under Guide.
X. Slide ·noun A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it.
XI. Slide ·noun A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement.
XII. Slide ·vt To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
XIII. Slide ·vt To slip when walking or standing; to Fall.
XIV. Slide ·noun A moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides.
XV. Slide ·vt To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.
XVI. Slide ·vt To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another.
XVII. Slide ·noun A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
XVIII. Slide ·vt To pass or put imperceptibly; to Slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.
XIX. Slide ·noun A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
XX. Slide ·vt 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.
XXI. Slide ·vt To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat slides through the water.
XXII. Slide ·noun 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.
XXIII. Slide ·noun 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.
XXIV. Slide ·noun 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.
XXV. Slide ·vt 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.
XXVI. Slide ·noun 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.
Examples of use of Slide
1. Initial slide However, Cink conceded he was taken aback by Woods‘s initial slide down the third–round leaderboard.
2. Slide the screen one way and the keypad appears, slide it in the opposite direction and you have the controls for MP3 and video software.
3. "This is what we need in art galleries, something to put smiles on peoples‘ faces" Slide userHowever, he had one minor complaint about the slide he went on.
4. A built–in slide–show mode displays your photos with a customizable MP3 soundtrack and a variety of slide transition effects.
5. Their performance was affected by the rapid slide in interest rates during these years, a slide that generated handsome yields for funds investing in bonds.