| Definitions | slide
noun
- A toy for children where they climb up and then slide, glide down again.
- The long, red 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 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.
- (baseball) The act of droping down and skidding into a base
Translations: - Dutch: dia , slide
- French: diapo, diapositive
- German: Dia , Klarsichtfolie
(trans-mid)
- Spanish: diapositiva
(trans-bottom)
(trans-top, in baseball)
verb (slides, sliding, slid)
- (transitive) To cause to move in continuous contact with a surface
- He slid the boat across the grass.
- (intransitive) To move in continuous contact with a surface.
- The safe slid slowly.
- (intransitive) 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.
- (intransitive) To lose one"s balance on a slippery surface.
- He slid while going around the corner.
- (intransitive) To let pass without action.
- ''The administrator let the minor infraction with only a disapproving look.
Translations: - Dutch: uitglijden
- French: glisser
- German: ausrutschen
(trans-mid)
- Spanish: resbalar
(trans-bottom)
(trans-top, to let pass)
- Italian: scivolare
Etymology: slÄdan
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