slide

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  1. intransitive verb To move over a surface while maintaining smooth continuous contact.
  2. intransitive verb To coast on a slippery surface, such as ice or snow.
  3. intransitive verb To pass smoothly and quietly; glide: slid past the door without anyone noticing.
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  • So this slide is a fake slide. —  Nicholas Negroponte, in 1984, makes 5 predictions
  • The point about this slide is actually the bottom. —  Aubrey de Grey says we can avoid aging
  • The fellow might have escaped by turning back; the slide was ahead of him and not far off, and he could have escaped before it spread But he elected, in his bloodthirsty ferocity, to take the other chance: He tried to outrun the slide, to get ahead of it where he could use his explosive upon Doc Savage and the others. —  015 - The Mystery On The Snow
  • Drilling under the Columbia at a location identified as a slide area by their own paid-for consultants and refusing to change the location which will result in placing multiple homes and people in a direct path of loss of property and life is an injury.
  • The purple streaks on the slide are the nanoparticles, visibly spreading out from the initial drop applied to the slide during the spin coating. —  TechnologyOwl.com
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bolt ·  lever ·  pin ·  lock ·  cylinder ·  assembly ·  move ·  slip ·  barrel ·  latch ·  fall ·  swing

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slide:   slides ·  slid ·  sliding
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English sliden, from Old English slīdan.

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  1. from Middle English sliden, slyden, sclyden (preterit slode, slod, slood, past participle sliden, islide), from Anglo-Saxon slīdan (preterit slād, past participle sliden), only in comp., slide; also, in deriv. slidor, slippery (see slidder), akin to sled (sledge, sleigh) and to slender, etc.; cf. Irish Gaelic slaod, slide; Lithuanian slidus, slippery, slysti, slide; Russian sliede, a foot-track; prob. extended (like slip) from √*sli, slide, flow, Sanskrit √ sar, flow, sriti, gliding, sliding: see slip.
  2. from slide, v.
 

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