Definition of Slide

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Definition of Slide

Slide

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.

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.

To pass inadvertently.

To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat slides through the water.

To slip when walking or standing; to fall.

To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.

To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.

To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another.

To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.

The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice.

Smooth, even passage or progress.

That on which anything moves by sliding.

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.

A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement.

That which operates by sliding.

A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it.

A moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides.

A clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like.

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.

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.

A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.

A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.

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.

A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.

Same as Guide bar, under Guide.

A slide valve.

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Slide Quotations

Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.
Nora Roberts

Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't lose your momentum, and there's one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper.
Pete Rose

The beautiful thing about when you go through a slide is that you learn from it. Not just saying that you learn from it, but applying the things that you have learned.
Kevin Garnett

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.
David Brainerd

You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.
Bum Phillips

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.
Muddy Waters

I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been.
Anthony Holden

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.
Bill Lee

United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?
John Astin

I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!
Ken Hensley

Slide Translations

slide in German is Dia, gleiten, abgleiten, schieben
slide in Italian is spingere
slide in Latin is labor lapsus
slide in Spanish is diapositiva
slide in Swedish is slira, skjuta, rutscha, glida

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