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- n a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study
- n (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.
- n (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale
the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides - n plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide
- n the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it
his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill - n a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector
- n sloping channel through which things can descend
- v move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- v to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly
- v move smoothly along a surface
- The new Washington term for the academicians who used to be called "brain-trusters" is "slide-rule boys.
- An Inconvenient Truth, Gore's global-warming slide show turned hit film, is the third highest grossing documentary of all time and debuted on DVD last week.