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slide

English

  1. 🔊 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”
  2. 🔊 a transparency mounted in a frame
  3. 🔊 a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study
  4. 🔊 plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide
  5. 🔊 (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.
  6. 🔊 sloping channel through which things can descend
  7. 🔊 (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale
    “the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides”
  8. 🔊 move smoothly along a surface
    “He slid the money over to the other gambler”
  9. 🔊 to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly
    “They slid through the wicket in the big gate”
  10. 🔊 move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
    “the wheels skidded against the sidewalk”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 deslizamiento slide
  2. 🔊 deslizar to slide
  3. 🔊 resbalar to slide
  4. 🔊 proyección slide, transparency
  5. 🔊 diapositiva slide, transparency, diapositive (clear object on which a sample may be viewed)

Similar words

glide coast chute slideway sloping trough lantern slide microscope slide playground slide sliding board swoop skid slip slue slew slither photostat telephoto wirephoto xerox xerox copy advance aerial photograph aerophone alabaster