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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Slip :: Slip (v. t.) To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place; as, a horse slips his bridle; a dog slips his collar..
Slide :: Slide (v. t.) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.
Horse :: Horse (a.) An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon.
Landslide :: Landslide (n.) The land which slips down.
Relapse :: Relapse (v.) One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again..
Trammel :: Trammel (n.) An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil..
Outslide :: Outslide (v. i.) To slide outward, onward, or forward; to advance by sliding..
Top :: Top (n.) A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudital grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting..
Travel :: Travel (n.) The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve..
Telescope :: Telescope (a.) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another..
Slide :: Slide (n.) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound..
Slue :: Slue (v. i.) To turn about; to turn from the course; to slip or slide and turn from an expected or desired course; -- often followed by round.
Slither :: Slither (v. i.) To slide; to glide.
Slide :: Slide (n.) A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it.
Tumbler :: Tumbler (n.) A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking..
Slide :: Slide (v. t.) To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
Slide :: Slide (n.) The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice..
Slide :: Slide (n.) A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement.
Landslide :: Landslide (n.) The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc..
Throw :: Throw (n.) The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston..
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