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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
slide
    n 1: a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens
         can be mounted for microscopic study [syn: slide,
         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, slide]
    4: plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children
       can slide [syn: slide, playground slide, sliding board]
    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: slide, glide, coast]
    6: a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide
       projector [syn: slide, lantern slide]
    7: sloping channel through which things can descend [syn:
       chute, slide, slideway, sloping trough]
    v 1: move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled
         manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk" [syn:
         skid, slip, slue, slew, slide]
    2: to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly; "They slid through
       the wicket in the big gate" [syn: slither, slide]
    3: move smoothly along a surface; "He slid the money over to the
       other gambler"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Slide \Slide\, v. t. [imp. Slid; p. p. Slidden, Slid; p.
   pr. & vb. n. Slidding.] [OE. sliden, AS. sl[imac]dan; akin
   to MHG. sl[imac]ten, also to AS. slidor slippery, E. sled,
   Lith. slidus slippery. Cf. Sled.]
   1. 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.
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   2. 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.
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            They bathe in summer, and in winter slide. --Waller.
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   3. To pass inadvertently.
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            Beware thou slide not by it.          --Ecclus.
                                                  xxviii. 26.
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   4. To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently
      onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat
      slides through the water.
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            Ages shall slide away without perceiving. --Dryden.
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            Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
                                                  --Pope.
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   5. To slip when walking or standing; to fall.
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            Their foot shall slide in due time.   --Deut. xxxii.
                                                  35.
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   6. (Mus.) To pass from one note to another with no
      perceptible cassation of sound.
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   7. To pass out of one's thought as not being of any
      consequence. [Obs. or Colloq.]
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            With good hope let he sorrow slide.   --Chaucer.
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            With a calm carelessness letting everything slide.
                                                  --Sir P.
                                                  Sidney.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Slide \Slide\, v. t.
   1. To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece
      of timber along another.
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   2. To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a
      word to vary the sense of a question.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Slide \Slide\, n. [AS. sl[imac]de.]
   1. The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice.
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   2. Smooth, even passage or progress.
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            A better slide into their business.   --Bacon.
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   3. That on which anything moves by sliding. Specifically:
      (a) 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.
      (b) A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for
          amusement.
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   4. That which operates by sliding. Specifically:
      (a) A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding
          over it.
      (b) (Mach.) A moving piece which is guided by a part or
          parts along which it slides.
      (c) A clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like.
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   5. 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.
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   6. 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.
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   7. (Geol.) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line
      of fissure. --Dana.
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   8. (Mus.)
      (a) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving
          by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note
          either above or below.
      (b) 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.
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   9. (Phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the
      position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into
      another sound.
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   10. (Steam Engine)
       (a) Same as Guide bar, under Guide.
       (b) A slide valve.
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   Slide box (Steam Engine), a steam chest. See under Steam.
      

   Slide lathe, an engine lathe. See under Lathe.

   Slide rail, a transfer table. See under Transfer.

   Slide rest (Turning lathes), a contrivance for holding,
      moving, and guiding, the cutting tool, made to slide on
      ways or guides by screws or otherwise, and having compound
      motion.

   Slide rule, a mathematical instrument consisting of two
      parts, one of which slides upon the other, for the
      mechanical performance of addition and subtraction, and,
      by means of logarithmic scales, of multiplication and
      division.

   Slide valve.
       (a) Any valve which opens and closes a passageway by
           sliding over a port.
       (b) A particular kind of sliding valve, often used in
           steam engines for admitting steam to the piston and
           releasing it, alternately, having a cuplike cavity in
           its face, through which the exhaust steam passes. It
           is situated in the steam chest, and moved by the
           valve gear. It is sometimes called a D valve, -- a
           name which is also applied to a semicylindrical pipe
           used as a sliding valve.
           [1913 Webster] In the illustration, a is the cylinder
           of a steam engine, in which plays the piston p; b the
           steam chest, receiving its supply from the pipe i,
           and containing the slide valve s, which is shown as
           admitting steam to one end of the cylinder through
           the port e, and opening communication between the
           exhaust passage f and the port c, for the release of
           steam from the opposite end of the cylinder.
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5. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)
Slide

    A now-retired Jakarta project to develop a
   repository for content management.  Slide is no longer in
   development.  It featured WebDAV, DeltaV WebDAV versioning,
   different databases and file system storage, transactions and
   locking, flexible permissions per file and more.

   <Slide home>.

   (2008-06-04)


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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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