slide

verb

\ ˈslīd

slid\ ˈslid

\; sliding\ ˈslī-diŋ

Definition of slide

(Entry 1 of 2)

intransitive verb

1a : to move smoothly along a surface : slip

b : to coast over snow or ice

c of a base runner in baseball : to fall or dive feetfirst or headfirst when approaching a base

2a : to slip or fall by loss of footing

b : to change position or become dislocated : shift

3a : to slither along the ground : crawl

b : to stream along : flow

4a : to move or pass smoothly or easily slid into the prepared speech

b : to pass unnoticed or unremarked let the criticism slide

5a : to pass unobtrusively : steal

b : to pass by gradations especially downward the economy slid from recession to depression

transitive verb

1a : to cause to glide or slip

b : to traverse in a sliding manner

2 : to put unobtrusively or stealthily slid the bill into his hand

slide

noun

Definition of slide (Entry 2 of 2)

1a : an act or instance of sliding

b(1) : a musical grace of two or more small notes

(2) : portamento

2 : a sliding part or mechanism: such as

a(1) : a U-shaped section of tube in the trombone that is pushed out and in to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics

(2) : a short U-shaped section of tube in a brass instrument that is used to adjust the pitch of the instrument or of individual valves

b(1) : a moving piece (such as the ram of a punch press) that is guided by a part along which it slides

(2) : a guiding surface (such as a feeding mechanism) along which something slides

c : sliding seat

d : a step-in shoe or slipper

3a : the descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountainside

b : a dislocation in which one rock mass in a mining lode has slid on another : fault

4a(1) : a slippery surface for coasting

(2) : a chute with a slippery bed down which children slide in play

b : a channel or track on which something is slid

c : a sloping trough down which objects are carried by gravity a log slide

5a : a flat piece of glass or plastic on which an object is mounted for microscopic examination

b(1) : a photographic transparency on a small plate or film mounted for projection

(2) : an electronic image presented as a part of a series Kyle Patterson, the city's enterprise data strategist, flashed a series of PowerPoint slides with graphs of percentage growth since 1970.— Maria L. La Ganga

6 : bottleneck sense 3

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Examples of slide in a Sentence

Verb

The door slides open easily. The firefighters slid down the pole to their trucks. He slid the bottle across the table. Slide your finger along the seam. She slid the paper under the door. He slid across the ice. Cars were slipping and sliding all over the roads during the snowstorm. Her purse slid out of her hands. The strap of her dress kept sliding down. She slid into the booth beside us.

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb

An attempt was made to enter a residence through a rear sliding-glass door which was found ajar. — Lisa M. Bolton, Washington Post, "Prince William County," 21 Aug. 2019 The large living/dining room features sliding glass doors to the backyard and a built-in buffet. — Monica Lander, The Mercury News, "Sponsored: Make it your own private waterfront oasis," 20 Aug. 2019 So, nearly one entire wall of the house's living room is made of glass, with both windows and sliding doors that overlook a patio area and the fields and mountainscape beyond. — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, "This Jackson Hole Guest House Is an Alpine Dream," 7 Aug. 2019 The mansion boasts four bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms and an open floor plan with soaring ceilings, skylights and walls of sliding glass doors that surround the stunning patio and pool. — Rebecca Hennes, Houston Chronicle, "Modern masterpiece designed by Houston arts icon Preston Bolton sees price cut," 7 Aug. 2019 The house features modern farmhouse design accents that includes interior barn-style sliding doors and a mudroom with a Dutch door. — Ebony Day, azcentral, "Scottsdale home with modern farmhouse-style design sells for $2.4M," 5 Aug. 2019 Editor’s Suite Choice: Be sure to ask for one of the 12 Suite Rooms and marvel at the intricate Japanese craftsmanship that includes walls of rosewood and maple, shoji paper screens and sliding glass doors etched with flowers and birds. — Danielle Pointdujour, Essence, "Nice and Slow: 3 Luxurious Train Journeys Everyone Should Take In Their Lifetime," 29 July 2019 Each suite has a fully lie-flat seat complete with sliding doors that close for ultimate privacy, a 32-inch LCD in-flight entertainment screen, and even a personal closet for jackets. — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, "6 New Business Class Cabins We're Excited to Fly This Summer," 12 July 2019 The fire started outside the house on or near a deck and sliding door and moved inside, officials said. — Michael Cabanatuan, SFChronicle.com, "Early morning fire causes major damage to Santa Rosa house," 6 July 2019

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun

Canadian officials are scrambling to help salmon blocked by a 16-foot-high waterfall created by the slide. — Anchorage Daily News, "Where are the salmon and the orcas? Tribe, scientists grapple with unprecedented disappearance in Washington waters," 6 Aug. 2019 All of the quotes and information in the slides above comes from Yelp.com. — Peter Dawson, Houston Chronicle, "Best independent auto repair shops in Houston Area, according to Yelp!," 6 Aug. 2019 Look for injured or trapped persons without entering the slide. — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, "How To Camp in the Rain Like a Pro," 5 Aug. 2019 One of the witnesses confronted the adult with group, later identified as Jeans, who pulled out a gun and racked the slide. — William Langhorne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Cudahy man charged with shooting into a car with 6-year-old inside," 3 Aug. 2019 As the country slides toward the European Union’s exits, the latest pressure on its currency comes in the form of the new prime minister, Boris Johnson. — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, "Brexit and Boris Johnson Send the British Pound on a Slide," 31 July 2019 Americans’ opinions of Washington have been on the slide since 2001. — The Economist, "Parliaments get facelifts; but it is politics that really needs one," 27 July 2019 The first slide was Jacobs’s Paris subway card, a carte orange, that showed the then-Parsons student with a shoulder-

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