slide

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To move smoothly along a surface while staying in contact with it.

   The children love to slide down the icy hill.

2. 2
   verb

   To slip or move out of control on a slippery surface.

   The car slid on the ice and hit a tree.

3. 3
   noun

   The act of moving smoothly along a surface.

   Their slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill.

4. 4
   noun

   A single image shown as part of a presentation or with a projector.

   The next slide shows our sales figures for the year.

From Middle English sliden, from Old English slīdan (“to slide”), from Proto-West Germanic *slīdan, from Proto-Germanic *slīdaną (“to slide, glide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sléydʰ-e-ti, from *sleydʰ- (“slippery”). Cognate with Old High German slītan (“to slide”) (whence German schlittern), Middle Low German slīden (“to slide”), Middle Dutch slīden (“to slide”) (whence Dutch slijderen, frequentative of now obsolete slijden), Vedic Sanskrit स्रेधति (srédhati, “to err, blunder”).

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