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- English Word Slide Definition To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.
- English Word Slide Definition To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
- English Word Slide Definition To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another.
- English Word Slide Definition To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.
- English Word Slide Definition The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice.
- English Word Slide Definition Smooth, even passage or progress.
- English Word Slide Definition That on which anything moves by sliding.
- English Word Slide Definition 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.
- English Word Slide Definition A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement.
- English Word Slide Definition That which operates by sliding.
- English Word Slide Definition A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it.
- English Word Slide Definition A moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides.
- English Word Slide Definition A clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like.
- English Word Slide Definition 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.
- English Word Slide Definition 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.
- English Word Slide Definition A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
- English Word Slide Definition A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
- English Word Slide Definition 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.
- English Word Slide Definition A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
- English Word Slide Definition Same as Guide bar, under Guide.
- English Word Slide Definition A slide valve.
- English Word Slidegroat Definition The game of shovelboard.
- English Word Slider Definition See Slidder.
- English Word Slider Definition One who, or that which, slides; especially, a sliding part of an instrument or machine.
- English Word Slider Definition The red-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys rugosa).
- English Word Sliding Definition That slides or slips; gliding; moving smoothly.
- English Word Sliding Definition Slippery; elusory.
- English Word Slidometer Definition An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars occasioned by sudden stopping.
- English Word Slight Definition Sleight.
- English Word Slight Definition To overthrow; to demolish.