Slide | Mean of slide in English Dictionary

/ˈslaɪd/

• Verb
• to move smoothly along a surface
1. The door slides open easily.
2. The firefighters slid down the pole to their trucks.
3. He slid the bottle across the table.
4. Slide your finger along the seam.
5. She slid the paper under the door.
• to move over ice or snow smoothly and often in a way that cannot be controlled
1. He slid across the ice.
2. Cars were slipping and sliding all over the roads during the snowstorm.
• to slip and fall
1. Her purse slid out of her hands.
2. The strap of her dress kept sliding down/off.

• to move or pass smoothly and easily into or out of something
1. She slid into the booth beside us.
2. He slid into [=began doing] his impersonation of the president.
3. He slid the key into his pocket.
4. He always finds a way to slide in a reference to his new book.
• to move so you or your movements are not noticed
1. They slid [=slipped] out of the room when nobody was looking.
2. He quietly slid the money into my hand.
• to become gradually worse over time
1. His parents are concerned that their son's grades have started to slide. [=worsen]
2. Sales figures have been sliding [=declining] for the last three quarters.
3. The restaurant's new management is really letting the quality of the food slide.
• to dive toward a base to avoid being tagged out
1. He slid into second base.
• to do nothing about (something, such as another person's mistake or bad behavior)
1. You were late this morning. I'll let it slide this time, but don't let it happen again.
2. It may be best to let things slide this time.
• Noun
• a movement to a lower or worse state or condition
1. The recent slide in the stock market has made investors nervous.
2. The book describes her slide into depression.
3. the slide in television ratings
4. (chiefly Brit) Her career has been on the slide [=on the decline] for a couple of years.
• an act of moving along or over a surface by sliding
1. The car hit a patch of ice and went into a slide. [=began sliding]
• a structure with a slippery surface that children slide down
1. a playground slide
• the act of diving towards a base to avoid being tagged out
1. a slide into home plate
• a small piece of film with an image on it that can be shown on a wall or screen by using a special machine (called a projector)
1. They showed us slides from their vacation in Europe.
2. a slide presentation/show/projector
• a small, thin, and usually rectangular piece of glass that holds an object to be looked at under a microscope
1. She sent the slides to the lab.
• a part of a musical instrument or a machine that is moved backward or forward
1. He oiled the slide of his trombone.
2. The slide mechanism on the machine was broken.