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Word: slide (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A lever that can be moved in two directions.
  • A toy for children where they climb up and then slide, glide down again.
  • A transparent image, to be projected to a screen.
  • A valve that works by sliding such as in a trombone.
  • baseball The act of dropping down and skidding into a base
  • science A flat, rectangular piece of glass on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope; a microscope slide.
  • The event of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones moving down the slope of a hill or from a mountain.

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Verb:

  • baseball To drop down and skid into a base.
  • intransitive To let pass without action.
  • intransitive To lose one?s balance on a slippery surface.
  • intransitive To move in continuous contact with a surface.
  • intransitive To move on a low friction surface.
  • transitive To cause to move in continuous contact with a surface

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