Noun Definition

slide

1.Definition: (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.

Category: General

2.Definition: (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale

"The violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides"

Related Noun(s):swoop

Category: General

3.Definition: a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study

Category: Objects

4.Definition: a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector

Category: Objects

5.Definition: plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide

Category: Objects

6.Definition: sloping channel through which things can descend

Related Noun(s):chute, slideway

Category: Objects

7.Definition: the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it

"His slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill", "The children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope"

Related Noun(s):coast, glide

Category: General