slide
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English sliden, from Old English slīdan (“to slide”), from Proto-West Germanic *slīdan, from Proto-Germanic *slīdaną (“to slide, glide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sléydʰ-e-ti, from *sleydʰ- (“slippery”). Cognate with Old High German slītan (“to slide”) (whence German schlittern), Middle Low German slīden (“to slide”), Middle Dutch slīden (“to slide”) (whence Dutch slijderen, frequentative of now obsolete slijden), Vedic Sanskrit स्रेधति (srédhati, “to err, blunder”).
Inflected forms:
form: slides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sliding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slid
pos: verb
tags: past
form: slid
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slidden
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: He slid the boat across the grass.
The safe slid slowly.
Snow slides down the side of a mountain.
gloss: To move on a low-friction surface.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The car slid on the ice.
They bathe in summer, and in winter slide.
gloss: To drop down and skid into a base.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Jones slid into second.
gloss: To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He slid while going around the corner.
gloss: To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to alter the meaning of a question by sliding in a word
Schoolchildren sometimes slide each other notes during class.
Lachey and Olson have become rather chummy the last couple of years—they slide each other free tickets, they visit each other at practice sessions and games, their wives hang out—and, well, Olson has been filling Lachey’s head with a lot of baseball talk.
gloss: To subtly direct a facial expression at (someone).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He slid me a dirty look.
gloss: To pass inadvertently.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Beware thou ſlide not by it, leſt thou fall before him that lieth in wait.
gloss: To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A ship or boat slides through the water.
Ages shall slide away without perceiving.
Begin vvith Senſe, of ev'ry Art the Soul, / Parts anſw'ring parts ſhall ſlide into a VVhole, […]
All night no ruder air perplex
⁠Thy sliding keel, till Phosphor, bright
⁠As our pure love, thro’ early light
Shall glimmer on the dewy decks.
gloss: To decrease in amount or value.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The stock market slid yesterday after major stocks released weak quarterly results.
gloss: To smoothly pass from one note to another by bending the pitch upwards or downwards.
pos: verb
gloss: To ride down snowy hills upon a toboggan or similar object for recreation.
pos: verb
tags: regional
examples: Tom and his mates discussed some plan for a few minutes and then Tom sang out: "Who'll go sliding? There's a big bob-sled in the barn and we fixed it up yesterday morning.[…]"
"They're awful mean not to have taken us slidin' with them," declared Sammy, sitting on the front step and making no effort to continue the work of snow man building. "I love to slide," repeated Dot, sadly.
gloss: To go; to move from one place or to another.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: "Gotta slide, this is my stop [on the train]."
"Baby what are you doing why are you putting your clothes back on?" "Somebody robbd my nigga I gotta go!" I tell her. With a saddened face, she says, "What do you mean you gotta go, is he okay?" "I don't know I just know I gotta slide, he's pulling up out here any min."
gloss: To kick so that the ball slides along the ground with little or no turning.
pos: verb
examples: England captain Harry Kane missed a great chance to give them the lead shortly after the break but it did not prove costly as Raheem Sterling crowned a smooth move involving Declan Rice, Jack Grealish and Mason Mount to slide home his 16th goal in his past 24 international appearance after 55 minutes.
gloss: An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
pos: noun
examples: The long, red slide was great fun for the kids.
gloss: A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
pos: noun
examples: skimming over the ice[…]It was a good long slide, and there was something in the motion which Mr. Pickwick, who was very cold with standing still, could not help envying.
gloss: The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.
pos: noun
examples: The slide closed the highway.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A mechanism, or portion of one, consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.
pos: noun
examples: On many semiautomatic pistols, the barrel is beneath the slide.
gloss: The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.
pos: noun
examples: a slide on the ice
Certainly Kings, that haue Able men of their Nobility, ſhall finde eaſe in imploying them; And a better Slide into their Buſineſſe: For People naturally bend to them, as borne in ſome ſort to Command.
Conceptually, this cognitive slide from social to biological was facilitated by the rhetoric of eugenics, which acknowledged few distinctions between the two.
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.
gloss: A lever that can be moved in two directions.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of slider (“movable part of a zip fastener that opens or closes the row of teeth”).
pos: noun
gloss: A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.
pos: noun
gloss: A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.
pos: noun
examples: Please hire a vendor to put these boxfuls of slides under a scanner and convert them all to digital images.
gloss: A page of a computer presentation package such as PowerPoint.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: I still need to prepare some slides for my presentation tomorrow.
gloss: In full microscope slide: a flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of dropping down and skidding into a base
pos: noun
gloss: A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.
pos: noun
gloss: A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.
pos: noun
tags: Irish
traditional
gloss: A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
pos: noun
gloss: A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
pos: noun
gloss: A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
pos: noun
gloss: A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: Removable rank insignia worn on epaulettes of army uniform.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
informal
examples: The previous year, on November 30, 2023, Mr Brereton was pictured wearing what is known as "pollies" or polyester 'general duty dress', in which he is seen putting new rank slides on an officer's shoulder.
gloss: A pocket in one's pants (trousers).
pos: noun
examples: with ten dollars in his slide
gloss: A sandal that is backless and open-toed.
pos: noun
gloss: A voluntary stutter used as a technique to control stuttering in one's speech.
pos: noun
gloss: A promiscuous woman, slut.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
Synonyms: slider
Derived words: aslide
let slide
slide into the DMs, slide into someone's DMs
slide off
slip and slide
backslide
bluntslide
boardslide
bogslide
book-slide
butter-slide
catslide
cover slide
cytoslide
dark slide
death slide
downslide
earthslide
evacuation slide
filmslide
foefie slide
hairslide
jeu de taquin slide
knee slide
landslide
lantern slide
lipslide
long run for a short slide
microscope slide
microslide
midslide
mud slide
mudslide
NOP slide
noseslide
nose slide
on the slide
outslide
overslide
pat slide
pick slide
power slide
reslide
rockslide
sandslide
senior slide
sewer slide
slicky slide
slideable
slide action
slidebar
slide-butt
slide deck
slide fastener
slidegroat
slide job
slideless
slideout
slide phone
slide plate
slide projector
slideproof
slide rest
slide rule
slide scanner
slide show
slide-show
slideshow
slide tackle
slide-tackle
slide trombone
slide truck
slide trumpet
slide valve
slidewalk
slideware
slideway
slide whistle
slidewire
slidey
slidometer
slidy
slip-and-slide
slither
snowslide
summer slide
tail slide
tailslide
toboggan slide
unslide
valide trombone
water slide
wheelslide
wheel slide
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