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intransitive verb. To move over a surface while maintaining smooth continuous contact.

intransitive verb. To participate in a sport that involves such movement.

intransitive verb. To lose a secure footing or positioning; slip.

intransitive verb. To pass smoothly and quietly; glide.

intransitive verb. To drop down from a running into a lying or diving position when approaching a base so as to avoid being tagged out.

intransitive verb. To be ignored or not dealt with; drop.

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intransitive verb. To decrease.

intransitive verb. To become less favorable or less desirable.

intransitive verb. To cause to slide or slip.

intransitive verb. To place covertly or deftly.

noun. A sliding movement or action.

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noun. A smooth, usually inclined surface or track for sliding.

noun. A playground apparatus for children to slide on, typically consisting of a smooth chute climbed onto by means of a ladder.

noun. A part that operates by sliding, as the U-shaped section of tube on a trombone that is moved to change the pitch.

noun. A period of decline or loss.

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noun. An image on a transparent base for projection on a screen.

noun. A small glass plate for mounting specimens to be examined under a microscope.

noun. A fall of a mass of rock, earth, or snow down a slope; an avalanche or landslide.

noun. A backless shoe with an open toe.

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noun. A slight portamento used in violin playing, passing quickly from one note to another.

noun. An ornamentation consisting of two grace notes approaching the main note.

noun. A small metal or glass tube worn over a finger or held in the hand, used in playing bottleneck-style guitar.

noun. The bottleneck style of guitar playing.

noun. An inclined plane up which hay is drawn by horse-power on to a rick by means of a net and a cable running over the top of the rick. The net, when emptied, is drawn back by a horse with a long rope. This method is practised on very large ranches.

noun. A smooth and easy passage.

noun. Flow; even course; fluency.

noun. In music:

noun. A melodic embellishment or grace, consisting of an upward or a downward series of three or more tones, the last of which is the principal tone. It may be considered as an extension of an appoggiatura. Also sliding-relish.

noun. Same as portamento.

noun. The transition of one articulate sound into another; a glide: an occasional use.

noun. A smooth surface, especially of ice, for sliding on.

noun. An inclined plane for facilitating the descent of heavy bodies by the force of gravity; a shoot, as a timber-shoot, a shoot (mill or puss) in a mine, etc.

noun. A land-slip; an avalanche.

noun. In mining, a fissure or crack, either empty or filled with flucan, crossing the lode and throwing it slightly out of its position.

noun. That part of an instrument or apparatus which slides or is slipped into or out of place.

noun. A slip or inadvertence.

noun. Some arrangement on which anything slides, as (in the plural) slides, a term used in some mines as the equivalent of cage-guides.

noun. An object holding by friction upon a band, tag, cord, or the like, and serving to hold its parts or strands in place.

noun. A slide-valve.

To move bodily along a surface without ceasing to touch it, the same points of the moving body remaining always in contact with that surface; move continuously along a surface without rolling: as, to slide down hill.

Specifically, to glide over the surface of snow or ice on the feet, or (in former use) on skates, or on a sled, toboggan, or the like.

To slip or pass smoothly; glide on ward.

To pass gradually from one state or condition to another.

In music, to pass or progress from tone to tone without perceptible step or skip—that is, by means of a portamento.

To go without thought or attention; pass unheeded or without attention or consideration; be unheeded or disregarded; take care of itself (or of themselves): used only with let: as, to let things slide.

"* A mountain "slide" is sometimes (as in the case of the famous slide at Alpnacht) a scientifically constructed incline paved with pine-trunks, down which the felled timber from the upper forests is shot into the valley without the labour and expense of transport."

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