slide : Idioms & Phrases

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Fish slide

  • an inclined box set in a stream at a small fall, or ripple, to catch fish descending the current. Knight.
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Growing cell, or Growing slide

  • a device for preserving alive a minute object in water continually renewed, in a manner to permit its growth to be watched under the microscope.
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hair slide

  • noun a decorative hinged clip that girls and women put in their hair to hold it in place
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lantern slide

  • noun a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector
    slide.
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microscope slide

  • noun a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study
    slide.
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playground slide

  • noun plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide
    playground slide; slide.
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Railway slide

  • . See Transfer table, under Transfer.
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slide action

  • noun action mechanism in a modern rifle or shotgun; a back and forward motion of a sliding lever ejects the empty shell case and cocks the firearm and loads a new round
    pump action.
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Slide box

  • (Steam Engine), a steam chest. See under Steam.
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slide by

  • verb pass by
    elapse; go along; lapse; slip away; go by; glide by; slip by; pass.
    • three years elapsed
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slide down

  • verb fall or sink heavily
    slump; sink.
    • He slumped onto the couch
    • My spirits sank
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slide fastener

  • noun a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab
    zipper; zip fastener; zip.
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Slide lathe

  • an engine lathe. See under Lathe.
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slide projector

  • noun projector that projects an enlarged image of a slide onto a screen
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Slide rail

  • a transfer table. See under Transfer.
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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.
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Slide rule

  • noun analog computer consisting of a handheld instrument used for rapid calculations; have been replaced by pocket calculators
    slipstick.
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  • 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.
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Slide valve

  • noun valve that opens and closes a passageway by sliding over a port
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  • . (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.
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sliding board

  • noun plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide
    playground slide; slide.
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sliding door

  • noun a door that opens by sliding instead of swinging
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sliding keel

  • noun a retractable fin keel used on sailboats to prevent drifting to leeward
    centreboard; drop keel; centerboard.
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sliding scale

  • noun a wage scale that fluctuates in response to the cost-of-living index
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sliding seat

  • noun rower's seat that slides fore and aft
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sliding window

  • noun a window that open by sliding horizontally
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To let slide

  • to let go; to cease to care for. Colloq. " Let the world slide." Shak.
Webster 1913