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- Dictionaryslide/slʌɪd/
verb
- 1. move smoothly along a surface while maintaining continuous contact with it: "she slid down the bank into the water" Similar
noun
- 1. a structure with a smooth sloping surface for children to slide down: "Anna played on the slide"
- 2. an act of moving along a smooth surface while maintaining continuous contact with it: "use an ice axe to halt a slide on ice and snow"
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to ( cause to) move easily and without interruption over a surface: When I was little I used to like sliding on the polished floor in my socks. We have one of those doors in the kitchen that slides open. He slid the letter into his pocket while no one was looking.
The meaning of SLIDE is to move smoothly along a surface : slip. How to use slide in a sentence.
Slide definition: to move along in continuous contact with a smooth or slippery surface. See examples of SLIDE used in a sentence.
slide suggests a movement of one surface over another in contact with it: to slide downhill. glide suggests a continuous, smooth, easy, and (usually) noiseless motion: a skater gliding over the ice. To slip is to slide in a sudden or accidental way: to slip on the ice and fall.
To slide is to move down or across something in a smooth way. If you’re into that kind of thing, head to a playground and go down a slide. Just don’t push any toddlers out of the way. You can slide your bed across your room so it's near the window, or slide on the kitchen floor in your socks.
Slide usually implies rapid easy movement without loss of contact with the surface: coal that slid down a chute to the cellar. Slip is most often applied to accidental sliding resulting in loss of balance or foothold: slipped on a patch of ice.
Definition of slide verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
