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# slide

«slide» in Mova's school dictionary: **To move smoothly over a surface while staying in contact…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (slide, slides, slid, sliding); noun (a slide, slides)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To move smoothly over a surface while staying in contact with it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slide/#m1)

2) A noun: a playground structure you climb up and slide down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slide/#m2)

3) A noun: a page in a presentation (slides on a screen), or a small glass piece for looking at things under a microscope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slide/#m3)

4) To go slowly into a worse state: «Standards slid». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slide/#m4)

5) A noun: a hair slide (UK: a clip for hair). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slide/#m5)

6) A noun: a fall of earth or rock: a landslide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slide/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

In science: forces — friction slows things that slide; smooth surfaces let things slide farther; ramps and slopes. In playground safety: go down the slide feet first, one at a time, wait until it's clear, don't climb up the slide. In school: presentation slides; microscope slides. Phrases: slide down, the slide, water slide, landslide, slide show, let things slide.

### examples

- The children took turns on the slide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slide/#x1)
- Go down the slide feet first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slide/#x2)
- The book slid off the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slide/#x3)
- We slid on the ice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slide/#x4)
- A smooth ramp lets the toy car slide farther. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slide/#x5)
- Look at the onion skin on the microscope slide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slide/#x6)
- Click to the next slide of the presentation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slide/#x7)
- The water slide at the pool is huge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slide/#x8)
- With trembling hands he pushed back the sliding door and looked in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slide/#x9)

### note

Irregular: slide, slid, slid (not «slided»). Double d is not used: sliding (one d). In science: less friction = it slides farther. «Let it slide» = ignore a small problem.

### In the corpora

- [Vivid example: in Toronto, red letters slide across the bottom of a cartoon: BREAKING NEWS.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/5/)
- [Leatherback turtles eat huge amounts of jellyfish, and their throats are lined with spikes that keep the slippery food from sliding back out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef/13/)
- [Add soap and the grease slides away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/24-soap-and-why-washing-works/1/)
- [Pull a plastic bag slowly and it thins and stretches before it tears, because the chains slide past each other and line up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/3/)
- [Alliteration is the same first sound repeated in words close together: "big brown bear", "slithering snakes slide silently".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «slide» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slide/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.