What's the difference between elide and slide?

Elide


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument.
  • (v. t.) To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; to subject to elision.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The truth is a large part of the media today not merely elides the two but does so now as a matter of course."
  • (2) Arguing that one drug should be legalised while others not seems to elide this question of public policy.
  • (3) For one thing, they assume that Euroscepticism elides into far-right extremism, when sometimes it does and sometimes it does not.
  • (4) The musical history of multi-racial Britain is usually elided to omit the 50s, jumping to the Jamaican insurgency of the 60s, but in London at least there was a vibrant scene, ranging from the big band swing of Jamaica's Leslie "Jiver" Hutchinson to the steel band of Trinidadian Russ Henderson.
  • (5) We studied the fine structure of the envelope of Escherichia coli auxotroph K1060 after the cells were grown in the presence of one of the following fatty acids; oleic, palmitelaidic, or elidic acid.
  • (6) Every presidential aspirant issues that boilerplate – as it elides an explanation of what the candidate thinks is worth fighting for – but Clinton’s long public record, which she uses as a selling point against Trump, gives reason to doubt it.
  • (7) And couldn't poor Brod see that in eliding Lehár's jolly and farcical operetta with Wagner's crushing toten lieder , Kafka manages in a single aside to undermine the entire airy and castellated edifice of late German romanticism?
  • (8) The mistake here is to elide styles of play that are boring (Ivan Lendl then, Milos Raonic now) with personal qualities that might be boring, but have nothing to do with tennis.
  • (9) It's a densely packed insult, in which Grayling manages not only to elide criminality with stupidity, but also takes a difficult background as a reason to disregard a person's judgment, and most strikingly, uses the fact that someone has been arrested as an indication that they are probably guilty.
  • (10) So the focus for investigation has slipped from extremism to "an awareness of the risks associated with extremism" in the elided phrase now used by Ofsted inspectors to condemn the schools most heavily involved, such as Park View academy.
  • (11) It is at once both public and deeply private , facilitating both an openness and vulnerability which elide other forums.
  • (12) That's hardly a landslide, even if you elide Euroscepticism and the far right together, which I do not.
  • (13) Compared to What also acknowledges but quickly elides a scandal from early in his career where Frank had a relationship with a man he hired, first for sex and later as his driver, who ran a prostitution ring from Frank’s apartment .
  • (14) What has happened of course is that hacking has been elided with a different set of criticisms of the press, which is that it too enthusiastically and brutally invades the privacy of the innocent, that it engages in character assassination too unthinkingly, and that it is slow and mean-spirited in correcting mistakes.
  • (15) When you are a white, socially powerful person travelling overseas and you're describing the people you meet in simplistic terms, you elide the reality of their lives and turn them into Disney sideshow attractions there for your entertainment, rather than human beings going about their daily lives.
  • (16) Frischmann was part of a strange ménage à trois that elided into Britpop - itself one of the most peculiar cultural episodes of recent times.
  • (17) Then, while we are distracted by visions of garrulous Roman senators, he casually elides philosophy with all expertise and then all expertise with the reading of chicken entrails.
  • (18) Obama effectively offered to trade an end to the Iraq war for continuation of the war on terrorism, something both his liberal supporters and conservative critics elided as it fit neither the picture of Obama the liberal savior or Obama the naive peacenik.
  • (19) "Causing offence" is so easily elided into inciting hatred, then inciting violence, then to being the cause of actual violence.
  • (20) Put simply this country was not ceded by treaty and the high court’s decision in Mabo elides the distinction between conquered and settled.

Slide


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.
  • (v. t.) Especially, to move over snow or ice with a smooth, uninterrupted motion, as on a sled moving by the force of gravity, or on the feet.
  • (v. t.) To pass inadvertently.
  • (v. t.) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat slides through the water.
  • (v. t.) To slip when walking or standing; to fall.
  • (v. t.) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.
  • (v. t.) To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
  • (v. t.) To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another.
  • (v. t.) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.
  • (n.) The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice.
  • (n.) Smooth, even passage or progress.
  • (n.) That on which anything moves by sliding.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement.
  • (n.) That which operates by sliding.
  • (n.) A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it.
  • (n.) A moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides.
  • (n.) A clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
  • (n.) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
  • (n.) Same as Guide bar, under Guide.
  • (n.) A slide valve.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (4) Despite the removal of the cruciate ligaments and capsulo-ligamentous slide, no significant residual instability was found in either plane.
  • (2) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
  • (3) For routine use, 50 mul of 12% BTV SRBC, 0.1 ml of a spleen cell suspension, and 0.5 ml of 0.5% agarose in a balanced salt solution were mixed and plated on a microscope slide precoated with 0.1% aqueous agarose.
  • (4) That piece was placed on the slide and embedded with a mixture of agar and antiserum.
  • (5) Slides and short films were used in primary and secondary schools.
  • (6) One cytotechnologist screened the slides for all occurrences of a standard set of classic cytopathologic signs.
  • (7) It was the ease with which minor debt could slide into a tangle of hunger and despair.
  • (8) Slide smears revealed the rosette-shaped pattern characteristic of malignant neuroblastoma, many of which were fitted with dendritic plasmatic processes.
  • (9) In the 55th minute Ivanovic dispossessed Bale and beat Ricketts before sliding the ball across to give Tadic a simple finish.
  • (10) Perfused or immersion-fixed epithalamic tissues, sectioned, and mounted on glass slides were processed through the avidin-biotin immunofluorescence method.
  • (11) The staining method consisted of sequential treatment of slides with crest serum, fluorosceinated goat-antihuman and swine-antigoat antibodies, and propidium iodide.
  • (12) These additional cues involved different sensations in effort of the perfomed movement – sliding heavy object vs. sliding light object (sS test), as well as different sensations in pattern of movement and joints - sliding vs. lifting of an object (SL test).
  • (13) Portugal's slide towards a Greek-style second bailout accelerated after its principal private lenders indicated that they were growing weary of assurances from Lisbon that it could get on top of the country's debts.
  • (14) Children as young as 18 months start by sliding on tiny skis in soft supple boots, while over-threes have more formal lessons in the snow playground.
  • (15) In addition to the cytologic characteristics, the possibility of detecting muscle antigens as markers for these embryonal small cells, even in previously stained slides, provides a successful method for defining the specific type of sarcoma.
  • (16) Tissue slides obtained at autopsy from 80 cases with AIDS were studied immunhistochemically for infection with Toxoplasma gondii.
  • (17) These results confirmed that 'punctuated' labeling was not an artefact due to a distortion of the cell's shape by having been dried on glass slides.
  • (18) The proportion of persons with P. malariae in this sample population, as determined by slide examination, appears to be the greatest ever reported for any area before the introduction of control measures.
  • (19) The new slide latex particle agglutination test gave better results, with 100% specificity, 80% sensitivity, high predictive values (greater than or equal to 91%), and an overall diagnostic efficiency of 93%.
  • (20) No, Did they invent sliding fingers across substances?