Slippery; uncertain; unstable; changing.

Movable; graduated; varying; changing according to circumstances: as, a sliding scale (which see, under slide, v.).

That slides; fitted for being slid.

Sloping.

noun. The motion of a body along a plane when the same face or surface of the moving body keeps in contact with the surface of the plane: thus distinguished from rolling, in which the several parts of the moving body come successively in contact with the plane on which it roils.

noun. The sport of gliding on snow or ice, on the feet, on a sled or a toboggan, or (in former use) on skates, etc.

noun. Falling; lapse; merging.

noun. Transgression; lapse; backsliding.

adjective. That slides or slips; gliding; moving smoothly.

adjective. Slippery; elusory.

adjective. the resistance one body meets with in sliding along the surface of another, as distinguished from rolling friction.

adjective. a topmast arranged with metallic fittings so as to be hoisted and lowered by means of halyards.

adjective. a movable keel, similar to a centeboard.

adjective. See the Note under Pair, n., 7.

adjective. Same as Slide rule, under Slide, n.

adjective. A slide rule.

adjective. the timber guides used in launching a vessel.

verb. Present participle of slide.

noun. The motion of something that slides.

adjective. Of something that can slide

adjective. being a smooth continuous motion

"Fannie and Freddie, which have operated under federal conservatorship since September 2008, maintain sliding scales of fees, starting with a standard one-quarter of 1 percent "adverse market delivery charge.""

instantaneous sliding axis  sliding door  sliding friction  sliding sash  sliding sinker  

slippery  slippy  

abiding  biding  chiding  coinciding  colliding  

coasting  coming apart  cracking  crumbling  decadent  

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