slide

slide is a 5-letter English word with 36 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 36 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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. transitive verb. 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.
3. transitive verb. To pass inadvertently.
4. transitive verb. To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat slides through the water.
5. transitive verb. To slip when walking or standing; to fall.
6. transitive verb. To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.
7. transitive verb. To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
8. transitive verb. To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another.
9. transitive verb. To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.
10. noun. The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice.
11. noun. Smooth, even passage or progress.
12. noun. That on which anything moves by sliding.
13. noun. 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.
14. noun. A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement.
15. noun. That which operates by sliding.
16. noun. A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it.
17. noun. A moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides.
18. noun. A clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like.
19. noun. 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.
20. noun. 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.
21. noun. A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
22. noun. A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
23. noun. 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.
24. noun. A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
25. noun. Same as Guide bar, under Guide.
26. noun. A slide valve.
27. noun. 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"

    "the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope"

    Synonyms: coast, glide

28. noun. sloping channel through which things can descend

    Synonyms: chute, slideway

29. noun. a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector
30. noun. a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study
31. noun. plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide
32. noun. (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale

    "the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides"

    Synonyms: swoop

33. noun. (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.
34. verb. move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner

    "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk"

    Synonyms: skid, slew, slip, slue

35. verb. to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly

    "They slid through the wicket in the big gate"

    Synonyms: slither

36. verb. move smoothly along a surface

    "He slid the money over to the other gambler"

Synonyms

coast, glide, chute, slideway, swoop, skid, slew, slip, slue, slither

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in slide:

deils, delis, idles, isled, sidle

Common word forms

slided, slider, slides, sliding, slideable

Words from these letters

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