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SLIDE

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Irregular inflected forms: slid    , slidden   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it

Example:

the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope

Synonyms:

coast; glide; slide

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("slide" is a kind of...):

motion; move; movement (the act of changing location from one place to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "slide"):

sideslip; skid; slip (an unexpected slide)

snowboarding (the act of sliding down a snow-covered slope while standing on a snowboard)

Derivation:

slide (move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner)

slide (move smoothly along a surface)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Sloping channel through which things can descend

Synonyms:

chute; slide; slideway; sloping trough

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("slide" is a kind of...):

gutter; trough (a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater)

Meronyms (parts of "slide"):

skid (one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "slide"):

glacier mill; moulin (a chute through which supraglacial water enters a glacier, boring either to the bedrock or to the depth of common crevasse formation)

coal chute (a chute for coal)

runway (a chute down which logs can slide)

water chute (chute with flowing water down which toboggans and inner tubes and people slide into a pool)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector

Synonyms:

lantern slide; slide

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("slide" is a kind of...):

foil; transparency (picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector)

Meronyms (parts of "slide"):

positive (a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study

Synonyms:

microscope slide; slide

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("slide" is a kind of...):

plate glass; sheet glass (glass formed into large thin sheets)

Meronyms (parts of "slide"):

cover glass; cover slip (a small and very thin piece of glass used to cover the specimen on a microscope slide)

section (a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide

Synonyms:

playground slide; slide; sliding board

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("slide" is a kind of...):

plaything; toy (an artifact designed to be played with)

Holonyms ("slide" is a part of...):

playground (yard consisting of an outdoor area for children's play)

Derivation:

slide (move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner)

Sense 6

Meaning:

(music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale

Example:

the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides

Synonyms:

slide; swoop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("slide" is a kind of...):

glissando (a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

Derivation:

slide (move smoothly along a surface)

Sense 7

Meaning:

(geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("slide" is a kind of...):

descent (a movement downward)

Domain category:

geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "slide"):

avalanche (a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain)

landslide; landslip (a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff)

Derivation:

slide (move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner

Example:

the wheels skidded against the sidewalk

Synonyms:

skid; slew; slide; slip; slue

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "slide" is one way to...):

glide (move smoothly and effortlessly)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "slide"):

submarine (move forward or under in a sliding motion)

skid (slide without control)

side-slip (slide sideways through the air in a downward direction in an airplane along an inclined lateral axis)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

slide (the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it)

slide (plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide)

slide ((geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.)

slider (a fastball that curves slightly away from the side from which it was thrown)

Sense 2

Meaning:

To pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly

Example:

They slid through the wicket in the big gate

Synonyms:

slide; slither

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "slide" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

The girls slide the wooden sticks

Also:

slide by (pass by)

slide down (fall or sink heavily)

Derivation:

slider (someone who races the luge)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Move smoothly along a surface

Example:

He slid the money over to the other gambler

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "slide" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence example:

The wooden sticks slide

Derivation:

slide (the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it)

slide ((music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Other substances are added to these slides to detect specific patterns of molecules.

(Microarray, NCI Dictionary)

I slid my panel, and was in the room in an instant.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He passed, and I went on; a few steps, and I turned: a sliding sound and an exclamation of "What the deuce is to do now?" and a clattering tumble, arrested my attention.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Nerves fit for sliding panels and tapestry?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Multiple slides carried some 6 square miles (16 square kilometers) of land far downhill - in some places farther than 49 feet (15 meters).

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

He dived his arm down to the bottom of the chest, and brought up a small wooden box with a sliding lid, such as children’s toys are kept in.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

During the scan, you lie on a table that slides inside a tunnel-shaped machine.

(MRI Scans, NIH)

The little man started, and the jaunty smoking-cap slid to the floor.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As the glacier thins and loses mass, both sliding and creeping become more difficult, and the glacier's flow slows as a result.

(NASA Finds Asian Glaciers Slowed by Ice Loss, NASA)

A thin slice of fixative-preserved tissue mounted on a slide for microscopic examination.

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