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1. slide
verb. ['ˈslaɪd'] move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner.
Etymology
- sliden (Middle English (1100-1500))
- slidan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
Rhymes with Slide
- oversupplied
- subdivide
- nationwide
- misapplied
- europewide
- worldwide
- westside
- stateside
- mcbryde
- mcbride
- malahide
- macbride
- complied
- coincide
- alongside
- untried
- supplied
- subside
- retried
- replied
- provide
- preside
- pool-side
- misguide
- liquide
- implied
- decried
- confide
- astride
- upside
How do you pronounce slide?
Pronounce slide as slaɪd.
US - How to pronounce slide in American English
UK - How to pronounce slide in British English
Sentences with slide
1. Verb, base form
The grooves allow you to slide the bolts forward to where they will not come out.
2. Noun, singular or mass
This should be posed as a question or statement on the first slide of your presentation.
Quotes about slide
1. Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.
- Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
2. There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.
- Shannon Hale, Princess Academy
3. The way you're singing in your sleepThe way you look before you leapThe strange illusions that you keepYou don't knowBut I'm noticingThe way your touch turns into arcsThe way you slide into the darkThe beating of my open heartYou don't knowBut I'm noticing
- David Levithan, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
2. slide
verb. ['ˈslaɪd'] to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly.
Antonyms
Etymology
- sliden (Middle English (1100-1500))
- slidan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
3. slide
verb. ['ˈslaɪd'] move smoothly along a surface.
Synonyms
Etymology
- sliden (Middle English (1100-1500))
- slidan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
4. slide
noun. ['ˈslaɪd'] a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study.
Etymology
- sliden (Middle English (1100-1500))
- slidan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
5. slide
noun. ['ˈslaɪd'] the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it.
Antonyms
Etymology
- sliden (Middle English (1100-1500))
- slidan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
6. slide
noun. ['ˈslaɪd'] plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide.
Synonyms
Etymology
- sliden (Middle English (1100-1500))
- slidan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
7. slide
noun. ['ˈslaɪd'] (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc..
Etymology
- sliden (Middle English (1100-1500))
- slidan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
8. slide
noun. ['ˈslaɪd'] (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale.
Synonyms
Etymology
- sliden (Middle English (1100-1500))
- slidan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
9. slide
noun. ['ˈslaɪd'] a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology
- sliden (Middle English (1100-1500))
- slidan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))