| slide | |
| 1. v. To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface | |
| He slid the boat across the grass. | |
| The safe slid slowly. | |
| Snow slides down the side of a mountain. | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To move on a low-friction surface. | |
| The car slid on the ice. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive, baseball) To drop down and skid into a base. | |
| Jones slid into second. | |
| 4. v. (intransitive) To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface. | |
| He slid while going around the corner. | |
| 5. v. To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip. | |
| to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question | |
| 6. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To pass inadvertently. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance. | |
| A ship or boat slides through the water. | |
| 8. v. (music) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cessation of sound. | |
| 9. v. To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence. | |
| 10. n. An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again. | |
| The long, red slide was great fun for the kids. | |
| 11. n. A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke. | |
| 12. n. The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche. | |
| The slide closed the highway. | |
| 13. n. An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down. | |
| 14. n. A mechanism consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide. | |
| 15. n. The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress. | |
| a slide on the ice | |
| 16. n. A lever that can be moved in two directions. | |
| 17. n. A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone. | |
| 18. n. (photography) A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen. | |
| 19. n. (by extension, computing) A page of a computer presentation package such as PowerPoint. | |
| I still need to prepare some slides for my presentation tomorrow. | |
| 20. n. (sciences) A flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope Generally referred to as a microscope slide. | |
| 21. n. (baseball) The act of dropping down and skidding into a base | |
| 22. n. (music, guitar) A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar. | |
| 23. n. (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time. | |
| 24. n. (geology) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure. | |
| 25. n. (music) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below. | |
| 26. n. (phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound. | |
| 27. n. A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc. | |
| 28. n. (footwear) A shoe that is backless and open-toed. | |
| 29. n. (speech therapy) A voluntary stutter used as a technique to control stuttering in one's speech. | |
