slide
An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down againAn item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
» The children were sliding on the ice.
Die Kinder schlitterten auf dem Eis.
Die Kinder rutschten auf dem Eis.
Дети скользили на льду.
Дети скользили по льду.
Діти ковзали на льоду.
Meaning
24 sensesAn item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
The long, red slide was great fun for the kids.
Rutsche, Rutschbahn
го́ркаgórka
гі́ркаhírka
plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide
A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
Rutschfläche
горкаgorka
The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.
The slide closed the highway.
An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down.
A mechanism, or portion of one, consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.
On many semiautomatic pistols, the barrel is beneath the slide.
The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.
a slide on the ice
Rutsch
скольже́ниеskolʹžénije
A lever that can be moved in two directions.
Synonym of slider (“movable part of a zip fastener that opens or closes the row of teeth”).
A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.
кули́саkulísa
A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.
Please hire a vendor to put these boxfuls of slides under a scanner and convert them all to digital images.
Dia, Klarsichtfolie
диапозити́вdiapozitív, слайдslajd
слайдslajd, діапозити́вdiapozytýv
(broadly)A page of a computer presentation package such as PowerPoint.
I still need to prepare some slides for my presentation tomorrow.
Vortragsfolie, Folie
In full microscope slide: a flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope.
Objektträger
предме́тное стекло́predmétnoje stekló
a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study
Examples
271 sentencesThe children were sliding on the ice.
Діти ковзали на льоду.
ruДети скользили на льду.
deDie Kinder schlitterten auf dem Eis.
It's a sliding door.
Це розсувні двері.
ruЭто раздвижная дверь.
deDas ist eine Schiebetür.
Have you ever used a slide rule?
ruТы когда-нибудь пользовался логарифмической линейкой?
deHaben Sie schon einmal einen Rechenschieber benutzt?
Tom has never used a slide rule.
ruТом никогда не пользовался логарифмической линейкой.
Would you please slide the van door open?
Translations
9 languagesBy meaning 3
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By meaning 9
Origin
Inherited from Middle English sliden, from Old English slīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *sInherited from Middle English sliden, from Old English slīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *slīdan, from Proto-Germanic *slīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃sléydʰeti, from *h₃sleydʰ- (“slippery”) + *-eti. Cognate with Old High German slītan (“to slide”) (whence German schlittern), Middle Low German slīden (“to slide”), Middle Dutch slīden (“to slide”) (whence Dutch slijderen, frequentative of now obsolete slijden), Vedic Sanskrit स्रेधति (srédhati, “to err, blunder”).
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Forms
plural: slidesSynonyms
14 synonyms- the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it:glidecoast
- a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector:lantern slide
- a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study:microscope slide
- plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide:playground slidesliding board
- sloping channel through which things can descend:chuteslidewaysloping trough
- (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale:swoop
Word family
79 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- B2Giving a presentation — Because the lesson uses it
Collocations
4 patterns- slid down the
- a slide rule
- used a slide
- slide rule