Slide \Slide\, v. t. [imp. {Slid}; p. p. {Slidden}, {Slid}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slidding}.] [OE. sliden, AS. sl[=i]dan; akin to MHG. sl[=i]ten, also to AS. slidor slippery, E. sled, Lith. slidus slippery. Cf. {Sled}.] 1. To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.
2. Especially, to move over snow or ice with a smooth, uninterrupted motion, as on a sled moving by the force of gravity, or on the feet.
They bathe in summer, and in winter slide. --Waller.
3. To pass inadvertently.
Beware thou slide not by it. --Ecclus. xxviii. 26.
4. To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat slides through the water.
Ages shall slide away without perceiving. --Dryden.
Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole. --Pope.
5. To slip when walking or standing; to fall.
Their foot shall slide in due time. --Deut. xxxii. 35.
6. (Mus.) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.
7. To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence. [Obs. or Colloq.]
With good hope let he sorrow slide. --Chaucer.
With a calm carelessness letting everything slide. --Sir P. Sidney.
Slide \Slide\, v. t. 1. To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another.
2. To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.
Slide \Slide\, n. [AS. sl[=i]de.] 1. The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice.
2. Smooth, even passage or progress.
A better slide into their business. --Bacon.
3. That on which anything moves by sliding. Specifically: (a) An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, esp. one constructed on a mountain side for conveying logs by sliding them down. (b) A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement.
4. That which operates by sliding. Specifically: (a) A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it. (b) (Mach.) A moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides. (c) A clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like.
5. A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope.
6. The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide.
7. (Geol.) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure. --Dana.
8. (Mus.) (a) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below. (b) 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.
9. (Phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
10. (Steam Engine) (a) Same as {Guide bar}, under {Guide}. (b) A slide valve.
{Slide box} (Steam Engine), a steam chest. See under {Steam}.
{Slide lathe}, an engine lathe. See under {Lathe}.
{Slide rail}, a transfer table. See under {Transfer}.
{Slide rest} (Turning lathes), a contrivance for holding, moving, and guiding, the cutting tool, made to slide on ways or guides by screws or otherwise, and having compound motion.
{Slide rule}, a mathematical instrument consisting of two parts, one of which slides upon the other, for the mechanical performance of addition and subtraction, and, by means of logarithmic scales, of multiplication and division.
{Slide valve}. (a) Any valve which opens and closes a passageway by sliding over a port. (b) A particular kind of sliding valve, often used in steam engines for admitting steam to the piston and releasing it, alternately, having a cuplike cavity in its face, through which the exhaust steam passes. It is situated in the steam chest, and moved by the valve gear. It is sometimes called a {D valve}, -- a name which is also applied to a semicylindrical pipe used as a sliding valve. ※ In the illustration, a is the cylinder of a steam engine, in which plays the piston p; b the steam chest, receiving its supply from the pipe i, and containing the slide valve s, which is shown as admitting steam to one end of the cylinder through the port e, and opening communication between the exhaust passage f and the port c, for the release of steam from the opposite end of the cylinder.
Temperatures were in the teens while some residents tied sheets and blankets together to slide from their windows down the five-story building's walls.
Some traders said the dollar's slide following the report's release was only a coincidence, explaining that the U.S. currency, in testing the upper end of the day's range, had exhausted buying interest.
Gains are tax-free - but this is also true of shares held within a personal equity plan. What if the Footsie were to slide just before June 29 1998?
Democratic Sen. Paul Simon was challenged in a bid for re-election by Republican Rep. Lynn Martin, whose anti-tax message and late call for limiting the terms of Washington lawmakers had not stopped her slide in the polls.
Stock prices were widely mixed, showing signs of steadying after Thursday's steep slide.
Central banks that bought dollars to halt the currency's slide ranged across the board, from the Bank of Italy to the central bank of Australia, said Marc Chandler, a currency analyst in Chicago for Dean Witter Reynolds Inc.
The State Department "has let this thing slide" Hopkins said in a telephone interview Friday.
"Investigators have found, after extensive testing, that the interior tail cone release mechanism failed to separate the tail cone and deploy the emergency slide," National Transportation Safety Board member John Lauber said.
Feverish buying in the last two hours of trading on London's International Petroleum Exchange reversed a slide in the Brent blend crude.
The stock market settled for a mixed showing after last week's rally ran into some resistance despite a continued slide in oil futures prices.
But "it's cold comfort to be No. 1 with the big slide in assets," says John Keefe, an analyst at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., New York.
The shares fell 39 to 453p, a slide of around 8 per cent, with 7.8m traded. Despite increased profits, reduced gearing and an increased dividend, underlying profits were flat once gains from currency shifts and acquisitions had been stripped out.
The seemingly relentless price slide drove coffee below $1.18 late last week.
Mr. Kelly is an old-fashioned engineer; he admits finally abandoning his slide rule for a calculator only last year.
Economic worries intensified the market's recent slide, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average below the 2,500 mark to levels not seen since May 1989.
He sold a further 163,000 shares at much the same price in May this year, since when the shares have been on the slide.
Bruce Grinnell, who was part of a helicopter crew that went to the scene of the slide.
James Flynn, senior vice president for finance at Corning Glass, says the outlook is favorable, though that is "due to change if the economy should slide due to the stock-market decline."
A stock overhang following a large sell order depressed IMI and the shares closed 15 lower at 237p. In transports, a large US seller of Tiphook, which reports figures on Monday, caused a slide in the stock towards the end of the session.
Bond prices began to slide early in reaction to the dollar's weakness after the government released its September trade report.
The slide in the dollar has served up some meaty currency losses for foreign investors in the U.S. market.
But several other types of funds shielded investors from the worst of the market's slide.
Soybean futures took the biggest slide in 15 years.
The one-time Footsie company saw its share price slide 24 to 113p, its lowest level for more than nine years.
Caterpillar continued its slide today, falling 6 to 52.
At that time, First Interstate reduced by $41 million the value of a package of securities it is offering for Allied, reflecting the slide in Texas real estate values and the growing problems of the state's banks.
Issues most damaged over the past week have been biotechnology and retail stocks, some that had more than doubled in price before the market slide.
Once the plane stopped, Shanhan said she whipped open the door and began ordering the passengers to form double lines and leap onto the slide.
Profit-taking and quiet days in the Persian Gulf following Monday's combat have helped sustain a slide in oil futures prices.
The dispatcher said the rock slide "contributed to the accident," but she could not elaborate.