| • | To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To pass inadvertently. |
| • | To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat slides through the water. |
| • | To slip when walking or standing; to fall. |
| • | To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound. |
| • | To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence. |
| • | To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another. |
| • | To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question. |
| • | The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice. |
| • | Smooth, even passage or progress. |
| • | That on which anything moves by sliding. |
| • | An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, esp. one constructed on a mountain side for conveying logs by sliding them down. |
| • | A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement. |
| • | That which operates by sliding. |
| • | A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it. |
| • | A moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides. |
| • | A clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like. |
| • | A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope. |
| • | The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide. |
| • | A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure. |
| • | A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below. |
| • | 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. |
| • | A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound. |
| • | Same as Guide bar, under Guide. |
| • | A slide valve. |
