(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?
Slider
Definition:
(a.) See Slidder.
(n.) One who, or that which, slides; especially, a sliding part of an instrument or machine.
(n.) The red-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys rugosa).
Example Sentences:
(1) To address whether temperature and estrogen are biologically equivalent, two experiments were conducted with the red-eared slider turtle, Trachemys scripta.
(2) Will Middlebrooks walks the plank, waving at a slider inside to become K-X.
(3) The righty deals to Descalso and strikes him out on six pitches - a slider.
(4) Pagan can't check his swing on a slider out of the zone, 0-1.
(5) 5.53pm GMT Just seven more sliders to slide in the men’s singles luge.
(6) Cell Slider Photograph: CRUK Every two minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with cancer.
(7) Then Martinez is hit by a slider that barely grazes V-Mart putting him at first with two outs.
(8) Three patients (14%) showed evidence of fixator binding, and another four (18%) had less than predicted slider excursions.
(9) The guests order from the bar menu – beef sliders for £21, £770 for a 50g portion of beluga caviar.
(10) Martinez throws a backdoor slider that goes to the very very back of Victorino!
(11) Jackson throws a nastier slider right in the dirt that makes Freese looks foolish.
(12) 1.56am BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of 1st Carlos Beltran is next, and he looks at strike three for the second out - a slider away.
(13) These are respectively a four jack system, a serrated wedge system, a spherical alignment system and a serrated slider.
(14) Jackson fouls off a slider that he probably would want back.
(15) But a large chunk of the £3.4m poured into the sport over four years goes on transporting the team around the world and technology to video the various tracks, which is then analysed and learned off by heart by the sliders.
(16) He's one of those CEOs who believes in rewarding his staff, who get £6.90 an hour (which buys you 30 Chicken Zingy Sliders and a tub of Reduced Fat Coleslaw), and seem to stay with the firm for years, which must mean something.
(17) The Rockies were completely stymied by the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner, who had all of his pitches working on Wednesday – fastball, curveball, change up and a slider, one that finished the Rockies for the night and set off a celebration.
(18) The femoral eyelet was screwed into bone and the tibial eyelet was attached to a force-transducer, which was positioned and locked on a tibial slider track to record forces in the ligament as the tibia was externally loaded.
(19) He finished off the big swinging team from Colorado with ease, Corey Dickerson no match for his final pitch, a slider he swung through for strike three.
(20) Coke throws a slider, but it's out of the zone and Belt didn't offer.