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Meaning slide meaning

What does slide mean?
Definitions in simple English

slide Verb

— If something slides, it moves smoothly and easily, usually over a surface. She put on the brakes and slid sideways fifteen yards before she was stopped by a pine tree. Carefully slide the egg from the fry pan onto the warm plate. She slid the paper beneath the door. He jumped into the elevator just as its door was sliding shut. He sat down and slid the shoes on quickly. Jordana took a deep breath and slid into a seat near the back of the room. Slipping and sliding on the snowy sidewalks, I slowly walked up toward the house. She felt his fingers sliding under her hair, along the base of her neck. Lean forward to see if the new glasses slide off your nose. He slid his hand slowly into his pocket. Emma slid out of bed, jumping when her feet touched the icy floor. They watched their shadows slide along the wall beside them. — If prices, numbers, rates, etc. slide, they go down. Oil prices are expected to slide in the near future.

slide Noun

— A slide is a structure, usually on a playground, that you slide down. He made a splash by entering the pool on a water slide. — A slide is a small photographic image on transparent plastic. When Kodak stopped making the slide projector last fall, it was the end of an era. A slide presentation on the history of the Irving Park neighborhood will be shown throughout the day. The photo contest has winners in slides, prints, and digital images. I'm going to show you some slides of real patients and real injuries that are pretty nasty. — A microscope slide is a piece of glass to hold something under a microscope. She transferred each flake to a glass slide under a microscope. — A slide is a long slow movement down. He's just an actor whose life is on a downward slide. The slide in gas prices won't continue. — A slide is a sliding part of a machine or musical instrument. His trombone slide was stuck. So he had to excuse himself to get it oiled. — A slide is a smooth, easy movement, usually over a surface. — A rock, snow, or mud slide is when a large amount of the material falls down a hill or mountain.

slide

— verb (= skid) move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner the wheels skidded against the sidewalk — verb to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly They slid through the wicket in the big gate — verb move smoothly along a surface He slid the money over to the other gambler — noun a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study — noun plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide — noun (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc — noun (= coast) 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 — noun (= swoop) (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides — noun a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector — noun (= chute) sloping channel through which things can descend

Synonyms slide synonyms

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slide English » English

slip glide skid slither transparency skate swerve move be slippery sliding board coast chute steal slip off sliding slide down skim shove shift roll push playground slide landslide glissade float fall valve swoop start moving start slue sloping trough slope slipping slippery sliding seat slideway slew shuffle run rink push along picture mudslide microscope slide let something slip lantern slide image frame drag along

Topics slide topics

What do people use slide to talk about?
Universe, creation Sky Weather

Snow, ice
Physical actions Move Manner of movement Walk with difficulty

Slip, slide
States Quantity More

Decrease
Grammar Very Degree

To a smaller degree
Physical actions Move something Move something in a direction

Put in
States Quantity Count

Mathematics

Conjugation slide conjugation

How do you conjugate slide?

slide · verb

Examples slide examples

How do I use slide in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom slid down the water slide.
Alice slid down the long slide.
I'd get a soup plate and then slide the glass very carefully over to the edge of the table, and let the water run into the soup plate - it doesn't have to run onto the floor.
In this next slide we see an aerial shot of the company headquarters.
Do you want to go down the slide?
This time I'll let it slide.
You're too young to know what a slide rule is.
You only have to slide it into the slot.
Have you ever used a slide rule?
Tom has never used a slide rule.

Movie subtitles

It seems he's going to let it slide.
There's not a lot of furniture, so there's plenty of room to slip and slide around in our socks like in Risky Business.
He rushes to the rope which hangs from the point of the shell and letting himself slide down the rope he gives it an impetus which causes the shell to fall off the edge of the moon.
One of my granddaughters dared me to slide down the banister.
From the roof he could slide down the drainpipe.
A slide valve with a fine screw on the stem.
There's a slide valve for it.
Last winter, a snow slide come down on that man's house and killed him dead.
Slide, you idiot, slide!
I'll slide it out, hide it in a hollow old apple tree.
Come on, slide in.
It's like a blasted lantern slide.
Slide rules, cracking plants?
What do you think of that slide?
Honey, you slide in and they carry you out.
Slide over and face the wall.
Oh, but they slide down the banisters.
We place the slide in the projector and turn on the light.
Reverse the slide.
In other words, all the figures of name number four are written backwards and read from right to left until we reverse the slide when they read correctly from left to right.
Get the spectrum slide of wolf's hair out of my case while I mount this.
Now, when I lift him up, slide the dolly under him.
Now get the fuck off my slide!
Me and my crew hang out at the top of the slide so I can see what's going on in the whole yard, most of which I control.
Let's tie a rope to that hook and slide down.
Once he got to the roof, he could slide down a drainpipe.
You'll see the Milky Way, slide of the Heavens and a trough for space horses.
She'll slide down the chute. and come out here.
You know how kids like to slide down banisters.
When they slide that pine box through the back door and somebody has to identify it before they take it away.
Swing that pick too hard in them old walls, you start a sand slide and block up the whole place.
Two-step slide?
Sure, Carl was with me the night of the big slide up the pass.
I'd be unfaithful to my wife every night with vice presidents, boards of directors, slide-rule accountants.
I'll slide out the back way.
It's the first time. You're happy to let things slide.

News and current affairs

These devices didn't become household items because governments subsidized purchases or forced up the price of typewriters and slide rules.
Weak neighbors are states that the Kremlin can control, so why not expand Russian power by letting Ukraine slide into protest and anarchy if by doing so it brings that country back under Putin's thumb?
But the fact that the dollar has continued to slide while gold prices have continued to rise suggests considerable skepticism from markets.
Draghi reversed the euro's slide into oblivion by promising potentially unlimited purchases of member governments' bonds.
They also pursued an expansionary monetary policy and let interest rates slide.
Will any country that legalizes therapeutic cloning inevitably slide down the so-called slippery slope and end up tolerating reproductive cloning?
On the logical slippery slope, you slide to the bottom and embrace the morally unacceptable because there is no way to distinguish it from an acceptable practice.
You can slide down the sociological slippery slope from one practice to the other - even if the two are conceptually different - just because the existence of one creates a social climate receptive to the other.
As a result, the slide was halted, and the rebound was faster than forecasters expected.
But, having cut off the downward slide of 2008-2009, they ran out of intellectual and political ammunition.
Only bold policies can halt Europe's slide toward secular stagnation and nationalist populism.
It should not come as a surprise that the Euro started to slide against the Dollar, considering the differences in economic performance between America and Europe.
Circuit-breakers are in place nowadays to prevent a 1929-style slide into disaster.
Therefore, those wanting to stop the slide into an unnecessary and risky war must make their own argument about credibility.
What the EU needs now is an updated external strategy that capitalizes on this allure to bolster its influence, security, and prosperity, thereby halting its slide toward irrelevance.
The likelihood of forced deleveraging of margin calls underscores the potential for a further slide once full trading resumes.
If European countries want to remain faithful to their embrace of universal and equal human rights and avoid any temptation or slide towards racism and xenophobia, all Europeans must act.
Moreover, if peace prevents a slide into war, Hezbollah has another problem.
As for the economic crisis, bailouts and stimulus packages on the order of billions of dollars, euros, yen, or yuan have been planned or implemented to stem the further slide of the global economy.
To be sure, Bush's new strategy is highly unlikely to help Iraqis avert a slide into sectarian civil war.
The first is that stimulus packages around the world arrested the slide into depression, and may have started a modest recovery.
Following the kickoff of the World Cup earlier this month, President Dilma Rousseff, who will run for re-election in October, began to slide in the polls.

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