wikipedia|dab=slide
English

Pronunciation
IPA|/slaɪd/
audio|en-us-slide.ogg|Audio (US)
rhymes|aɪd

Etymology
OE. slīdan

Verb
en-verb|slides|sliding|slid

1. transitive To cause to move in continuous contact with a surface

#: He slid the boat across the grass.

1. intransitive To move in continuous contact with a surface.

#: The safe slid slowly.

1. intransitive To move on a low friction surface.

#: The car slid on the ice.

1. intransitive|baseball To drop down and skid into a base.

#: Jones slid into second.

1. intransitive To lose one�s balance on a slippery surface.

#: He slid while going around the corner.

1. intransitive To let pass without action.

#: ''The administrator let the minor infraction slide with only a disapproving look.

Translations
trans-top|to cause to move in contact with a surface
Dutch: slepen
Finnish: liu'uttaa, työntää, vetää
French: glisser
German: gleiten
Icelandic: renna
Spanish: deslizar
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trans-top|to move in continuous contact with a surface
Arabic: ARchar|ا�ز�� IPAchar|(�inzálaqa)
Chinese: � (huá)
Dutch: glijden
Finnish: liukua
French: glisser
German: gleiten
Hungarian: csúsz
Italian: scivolare
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Japanese: �� (���, suberu)
Korean: 미���� (miggeureojida)
Portuguese: deslizar
Russian: �кол�зи�� (skol�zít�)
Slovene: drseti
Spanish: resbalar
Swedish: glida
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trans-top|to move with low friction
Dutch: glijden
Finnish: liukua, luisua
French: glisser
German: rutschen
Italian: scivolare
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Slovene: drseti
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trans-top|in baseball
Finnish: syöksyä
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trans-top|to lose balance
Dutch: uitglijden
Finnish: liukastua
French: glisser
German: ausrutschen
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Italian: scivolare
Slovene: spodrsniti, zdrsniti
Spanish: resbalar
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trans-top|to let pass
Finnish: mennä
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Slovene: (neopaženo) miniti
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Noun
en-noun

1. A toy for children where they climb up and then slide, glide down again.

#: The long, red slide was great fun for the kids.

1. The event of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones moving down the slope of a hill or from a mountain.

#: The slide closed the highway.

1. A lever that can be moved in two directions.
2. A valve that works by sliding such as in a trombone.
3. A transparent image, to be projected to a screen.
4. baseball The act of droping down and skidding into a base

Translations
trans-top|toy
Dutch: glijbaan f, schuifaf f
Finnish: liukumäki
French: toboggan m
German: Rutsche f
Icelandic: renna f, rennibraut f
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Japanese: ��� (�����, suberidai)
Slovene: tobogan
Spanish: tobogán m
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trans-top|rubble, earth and stones moving down
Dutch: lawine f
Finnish: maanvyöry, maanvyörymä
French: glissement, glissement de terrain
German: Erdrutsch m
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Japanese: ��� (����, jisuberi)
Slovene: udor
Spanish: corrimiento m, corrimiento de tierra m
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trans-top|lever
Dutch: schuif f
Finnish: vipu
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trans-top|valve in eg. a trombone
Dutch: ventiel n
Finnish: luisti
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Slovene: drsalni zaklopec
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trans-top|transparent image for projecting
Czech: snímek m (about a slide in presentation software), diák m
Dutch: dia m, slide m
Finnish: dia, diapositiivi, kuultokuva
French: diapo, diapositive
German: Dia n, Klarsichtfolie f
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Slovene: dias, diapozitiv
Spanish: diapositiva f
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trans-top|in baseball
Finnish: syöksy
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Translations to be checked
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from verbs
ttbc|Ido: glitar
ttbc|Indonesian: gelincir|menggelincir, gelincir|tergelincir, luncur|meluncur
ttbc|Japanese: �� (���, suberu)

from noun
ttbc|Esperanto: lumbildo
ttbc|Ido: lumbildo

Category:English irregular verbs
Category:English ergative verbs

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• 2007-12-17 03:15 - DCDuring - /* English */ comb trans intrans defs, trans

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