• | 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. |