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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Leaf :: Leaf (n.) Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end; as : (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages upon its opposite sides. (b) A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged, as of window shutters, folding doors, etc. (c) The movable side of a table. (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf. (e) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer. (f) One of the teeth of a pinion, es
Slidegroat :: Slidegroat (n.) The game of shovelboard.
Cover :: Cover (n.) The lap of a slide valve.
Slide :: Slide (v. t.) To slip when walking or standing; to fall.
Overslip :: Overslip (v. t.) To slip or slide over; to pass easily or carelessly beyond; to omit; to neglect; as, to overslip time or opportunity..
Shears :: Shears (n.) The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe..
Inflection :: Inflection (n.) A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the rising and the falling inflection..
Slide :: Slide (v. t.) To pass inadvertently.
Slip :: Slip (v. t.) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
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.) A slide valve.
Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide..
Guillotine :: Guillotine (n.) A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim..
Slide :: Slide (v. t.) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question..
Landslide :: Landslide (n.) The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc..
Slip :: Slip (n.) To slide; to lose one's footing or one's hold; not to tread firmly; as, it is necessary to walk carefully lest the foot should slip..
Slide :: Slide (n.) Same as Guide bar, under Guide..
Slide :: Slide (n.) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
Relapse :: Relapse (v.) One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again..
Backsliding :: Backsliding (n.) The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty.
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