Definition of slide

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Slide (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.

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Telescope :: Telescope (a.) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another..
Slid :: Slid () imp. & p. p. of Slide.
Slidegroat :: Slidegroat (n.) The game of shovelboard.
Slidden :: Slidden () p. p. of Slide.
Outslide :: Outslide (v. i.) To slide outward, onward, or forward; to advance by sliding..
Relapse :: Relapse (v.) One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again..
Slide :: Slide (v. t.) To slip when walking or standing; to fall.
Shear :: Shear (v. t.) An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress..
Launch :: Launch (v. i.) To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship..
Slide :: Slide (n.) The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice..
Slidder :: Slidder (v. t.) To slide with interruption.
Slide :: Slide (v. t.) To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
Recidivate :: Recidivate (v. i.) To backslide; to fall again.
Slip :: Slip (v. t.) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
Toboggan :: Toboggan (v. i.) To slide down hill over the snow or ice on a toboggan.
Slide :: Slide (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..
Cathetometer :: Cathetometer (n.) An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces of two columns of mercury or other fluid, or of the same column at different times. It consists of a telescopic leveling apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic standard very finely graduated (bb). The telescope is raised or depressed in order to sight the objects or surfaces, and the differences in vertical height are th
Slide :: Slide (n.) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound..
Slide :: Slide (v. t.) To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another..
Scene :: Scene (n.) The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides, or other devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a play; as, to paint scenes; to shift the scenes; to go behind the scenes..
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