slide

slide
I. verb (slid; sliding) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English slīdan; akin to Middle High German slīten to slide Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. a. to move smoothly along a surface ; slip b. to coast over snow or ice c. of a base runner in baseball to fall or dive feetfirst or headfirst when approaching a base 2. a. to slip or fall by loss of footing b. to change position or become dislocated ; shift 3. a. to slither along the ground ; crawl b. to stream along ; flow 4. a. to move or pass smoothly or easily <
slid into the prepared speech
> b. to pass unnoticed or unremarked <
let the criticism slide
> 5. a. to pass unobtrusively ; steal b. to pass by gradations especially downward <
the economy slid from recession to depression
> transitive verb 1. a. to cause to glide or slip b. to traverse in a sliding manner 2. to put unobtrusively or stealthily <
slid the bill into his hand
> II. noun Date: 1570 1. a. an act or instance of sliding b. (1) a musical grace of two or more small notes (2) portamento 2. a sliding part or mechanism: as a. (1) a U-shaped section of tube in the trombone that is pushed out and in to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics (2) a short U-shaped section of tube in a brass instrument that is used to adjust the pitch of the instrument or of individual valves b. (1) a moving piece (as the ram of a punch press) that is guided by a part along which it slides (2) a guiding surface (as a feeding mechanism) along which something slides c. sliding seat 3. a. the descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountainside b. a dislocation in which one rock mass in a mining lode has slid on another ; fault 4. a. (1) a slippery surface for coasting (2) a chute with a slippery bed down which children slide in play b. a channel or track on which something is slid c. a sloping trough down which objects are carried by gravity <
a log slide
> 5. a. a flat piece of glass or plastic on which an object is mounted for microscopic examination b. a photographic transparency on a small plate or film mounted for projection 6. bottleneck 3

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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