Definition of: slide

(slīd) v. slid, slid or slid·den, slid·ing v.i.
1. To pass along over a surface with a smooth, slipping movement: to slide on ice.
2. To slip off, as scales in shedding.
3. To move or pass imperceptibly, smoothly, deftly, or easily; pass gradually or imperceptibly: The years slide away swiftly.
4. To move, pass, or proceed by sufferance merely; also, to take care of oneself or itself; go by default or without heed: with let: to let the matter slide.
5. Music To glide from tone to tone without breaking the sound.
6. To make a moral slip; err; sin.
7. To slip; lose one's equilibrium or foothold.
8. In baseball, to throw oneself along the ground toward a base, in order to avoid being tagged by the baseman.
—v.t.
9. To cause to slide, as over a surface.
10. To move, put, enter, etc., with quietness or dexterity: with in or into.
—noun
1. An act of sliding.
2. The slipping of a mass of earth, snow, etc., from a higher to a lower level; an avalanche.
3. An inclined plane or channel on which persons, goods, logs, etc., slide downward to a lower level.
4. A small plate of glass on which a specimen is mounted and examined through a microscope.
5. A small plate of transparent material bearing a single image for projection on a screen.
6. Phot. In a camera, that part of a plate holder which covers and uncovers the negative.
7. Music a A series of short musical notes leading smoothly to a principal note: a type of ornamentation. b A portamento. c In a trumpet or trombone, a U–shaped portion of the tubing which is pushed in and out to vary the pitch.
8. Mech. a A sliding part. b A groove, rail, etc., on which something slides. [OE slīdan]