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Move smoothly along a surface while maintaining continuous contact with it
“Normally, the pleurae are silky smooth, allowing your lungs to slide easily along your chest wall when you breathe in and out.”
Change gradually to a worse condition or lower level
“Nobody - well, hardly anybody - expects the economy to slide back into a recession.”
To move smoothly along a surface while maintaining continuous contact with it
Move smoothly, quickly, or unobtrusively
To move or drag oneself along the ground
To place, fit, or push (something) into something else
Fall rapidly in amount or value
To move (something or oneself) slowly and carefully
To move from one place to another
Wriggle or twist the body from side to side, especially as a result of nervousness or discomfort
To drop or fall to, especially of an undesirable or notorious level or failure
Move in a feeble or unsteady way
To evade by cleverness or trickery
Hit something at an angle and bounce off obliquely
To walk, run, or dance with quick and light steps
A mounted transparency, especially one placed in a projector for viewing on a screen
“With slide film, use your camera's exposure-compensation feature to underexpose by a half or a full stop for more saturated color bands.”
A decline in value or quality
“It felt like part of a long, long slide down that slippery slope of obsolescence.”
A sloping channel or slide for conveying things to a lower level
The act of lowering in amount
An avalanche
The process of becoming progressively worse
An easy victory
A water slide into a swimming pool
A sloping position or movement
A flexible or spring-loaded device for holding an object or objects together or in place
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