Dictionary Definition
slide
Noun
1 a small flat rectangular piece of glass on
which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study [syn: microscope
slide]
2 (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth
or rocks or snow etc.
3 (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical
scale; "the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides"
[syn: swoop]
4 plaything consisting of a sloping chute down
which children can slide
5 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" [syn: glide, coast]
6 a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with
a slide projector [syn: lantern
slide]
Verb
1 move obliquely or sideways, usually in an
uncontrolled manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk"
[syn: skid, slip, slue, slew]
2 to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly;
"They slid through the wicket in the big gate" [syn: slither]
3 move smoothly along a surface; "He slid the
money over to the other gambler" [also: slidden, slid]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /slaɪd/
- Rhymes with: -aɪd
Etymology
slīdanVerb
- To cause to move in continuous contact with a surface
- He slid the boat across the grass.
- To move in continuous contact with a surface.
- The safe slid slowly.
- To move on a low friction surface.
- The car slid on the ice.
- intransitive baseball To drop down and skid
into a base.
- Jones slid into second.
- To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
- He slid while going around the corner.
- To let pass without action.
- ''The administrator let the minor infraction slide with only a disapproving look.
Translations
to cause to move in contact with a surface
- Dutch: slepen, schuiven
- Finnish: liu'uttaa, työntää, vetää
- French: glisser
- German: gleiten
- Icelandic: renna
- Japanese: 滑る; qualifier engineering 慴動させる
- Spanish: deslizar
to move in continuous contact with a surface
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 滑 (huá)
- Dutch: glijden
- Finnish: liukua
- French: glisser
- German: gleiten
- Hungarian: csúsz
- Italian: scivolare
- Japanese: 滑る; qualifier engineering 慴動する
- Korean: 미끄러지다 (miggeureojida)
- Portuguese: deslizar
- Russian: скользить (skol’zít’)
- Slovene: drseti
- Spanish: resbalar
- Swedish: glida
to move with low friction
in baseball
- Finnish: syöksyä
to lose balance
- Dutch: uitglijden
- Finnish: liukastua
- French: glisser
- German: ausrutschen
- Italian: scivolare
- Japanese: 滑る
- Slovene: spodrsniti, zdrsniti
- Spanish: resbalar
to let pass
Noun
- A toy for children where they climb up and
then slide, glide down
again.
- The long, red slide was great fun for the kids.
- The event of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones moving down the slope of a
hill or from a mountain.
- The slide closed the highway.
- A lever that can be moved in two directions.
- A valve that works by sliding such as in a trombone.
- A transparent image, to be projected to a screen.
- The act of droping down and skidding into a base
Translations
toy
- Czech: skluzavka
- Dutch: glijbaan , schuifaf
- Finnish: liukumäki
- French: toboggan
- German: Rutsche
- Icelandic: renna , rennibraut
- Japanese: 滑り台
- Slovene: tobogan
- Spanish: tobogán
rubble, earth and stones moving down
- Czech: sesuv
- Dutch: lawine
- Finnish: maanvyöry, maanvyörymä
- French: glissement, glissement de terrain
- German: Erdrutsch
- Japanese: 地滑り
- Slovene: udor
- Spanish: corrimiento , corrimiento de tierra
lever
- Dutch: schuif
- Finnish: vipu
valve in eg. a trombone
- Dutch: ventiel
- Finnish: luisti
- Japanese: スライド
- Slovene: drsalni zaklopec
transparent image for projecting
- Czech: snímek (about a slide in presentation software), diák
- Dutch: dia, slide
- Finnish: dia, diapositiivi, kuultokuva
- French: diapo, diapositive
- German: Dia , Klarsichtfolie
- Japanese: スライド
- Slovene: dias, diapozitiv
- Spanish: diapositiva
in baseball
- Finnish: syöksy
- Japanese: スライディング
from verbs
- ttbc Ido: glitar
- ttbc Indonesian: menggelincir, tergelincir, meluncur
Extensive Definition
Slide could be related to any of these.
Mechanical
- Evacuation slide
- Landslide - the movement of soil, mud or rock down a slope.
- Playground slide - a smooth, sloped surface down which (usually) children slide while sitting down.
- Water slide - a popular water sport.
Photography and Optics
- Microscope slide - a thin glass sheet used to hold objects for examination.
- Photographic slide or transparency - a thin translucent photograph bound in paper, plastic or similar frame and often used for projection with use of a slide projector for a slideshow.
- A slide edit - a video editing term for moving a clip around in a timeline.
- Slide (website) - a website that offers groups the ability to discover, share, and talk about photos together.
Music
- Slide - an album by Lisa Germano
- Slide (band) - American rock band of the 1990s.
- Slide - a song by R&B/funk band Slave.
- Slide - a single by the Goo Goo Dolls.
- Slide - a song by Dido on the album No Angel.
- Slide (guitar technique) - a technique where one note is sounded and the player slides along a string.
- Slide guitar - a method of playing guitar, see also slide (guitar).
- Slide trombone, a musical instrument, see also slide (wind instrument).
- Slide whistle - a musical/wind instrument.
- Step Back/Slide - a double a-side single by Superheist
Action
- Dark slide - a skateboarding trick.
- Slide (baseball) - in baseball, dropping to the ground when going into a base to avoid a tag.
- A sliding tackle, a skill in football (soccer)
- Slide (dance) – a popping dance move giving the impression of gliding around effortlessly.
Other
- Slide rule - a simple analog calculator.
- Jakarta Slide - a Content Management System software.
- Pistol slide - the upper half of a pistol that contains the barrel.
- Another word for a linear bearing.
- Slide (Sword of Truth) - a magically created creature from The Sword of Truth series.
- Slide (software) - software used for slope stability analysis.
- Slide.com - a Web 2.0 company that designs photo sharing and Facebook software applications.
- Slide (Flying) - Un Coornated Turn
slide in Danish: Sliske
slide in German: Slide
slide in French: Slide
slide in Italian: Slide
slide in Japanese: スライド
slide in Polish: Slide
slide in Simple English: Slide
(disambiguation)
slide in Turkish: Saydam
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Photostat, Telephoto, Wirephoto, Xerox, Xerox copy, advance, aerial photograph,
aerophone, alabaster, avalanche, be effortless, be
painless, bell, billiard
table, black-and-white photograph, blowup, blueprint, bolt-hole, bowling
alley, bowling green, candid photograph, cheesecake, chronophotograph,
coast, coasting, color photograph,
color print, contact printing, continue, crawl, creep, cyanotype, decline, decrease, diapositive, die, dip, double reed, downslide, downswing, downtrend, downturn, drift, drop, drop off, ebb, ejection seat, elapse, embouchure, emergency exit,
endure, enlargement, escape hatch,
expire, fade, fail, fall, fall away, fall off, falloff, fire escape, flat, flit, flow, flow on, flowing, fly, forget, give no trouble, glass, glide, gliding, glissade, glissando, gloss over,
glossy, go by, go down,
go downhill, go easily, go like clockwork, go off, go on, heliochrome, heliograph, hit a slump, hit
rock bottom, hit the skids, hologram, horn, ice, ice-skate, ignore, inflatable slide,
ivory, key, landslide, landslip, lantern slide,
lapse, last, let slide, level, life buoy, life net, life
raft, lifeboat,
lifeline, lip, lurk, mahogany, marble, matte, microcopy, microprint, montage, mouse, mouthpiece, move, mug, mug shot, neglect, pass, pass by, pass over, photo, photobiography, photochronograph,
photocopy, photograph, photogravure, photomap, photomicrograph,
photomontage,
photomural,
photostatic copy, picture, pinup, pipe, plane, portrait, positive, present no
difficulties, press on, print, proceed, projection printing,
reach the depths, reed,
roll, roll on,
roller-skate, run, run down,
run its course, run on, run out, run smoothly, sag, sail, sailing, sally port, satin, semi-matte, shift, shirk, shot, sideslip, silk, sink, skate, skateboard, skating, ski, skid, skiing, skim, skulk, sled, sledding, sleigh, slick, slidder, slide down, sliding, slink, slip, slippage, slipping, slither, slithering, slump, slur, smooth, snake, snap, snapshot, snowslide, snowslip, spill, steal, still, still photograph, stream, subside, subsidence, sweep, sweeping, telephotograph, tennis
court, toboggan,
tobogganing,
tooter, touch bottom,
transparency,
tumble, valve, velvet, wane, wind, wind instrument, work
well