glacier mill vs slide

slide vs glacier mill

glacier mill and slide both are nouns.

glacier mill is not a verb while slide is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
glacier mill	Yes	No	No	No
slide	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, slide is a hypernym of glacier mill; that is, slide is a word with a broader meaning than glacier mill:

glacier mill: a chute through which supraglacial water enters a glacier, boring either to the bedrock or to the depth of common crevasse formation
slide: sloping channel through which things can descend

Other hypernyms of glacier mill include chute, slideway, sloping trough.

glacier mill (noun)	slide (noun)
a chute through which supraglacial water enters a glacier, boring either to the bedrock or to the depth of common crevasse formation	the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it
	sloping channel through which things can descend
	a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector
	a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study
	plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide
	(music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale
	(geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.

glacier mill (verb)	slide (verb)
	to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly
	move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
	move smoothly along a surface

Difference between glacier mill and slide

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