slide vs avalanche

avalanche vs slide

slide and avalanche both are nouns.

slide and avalanche both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
slide	Yes	No	Yes	No
avalanche	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, avalanche is a hyponym of slide; that is, avalanche is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than slide:

slide: (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.
avalanche: a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain

Other hyponyms of slide include landslide, landslip.

slide (noun)	avalanche (noun)
the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it	a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain
sloping channel through which things can descend	a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things
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.

slide (verb)	avalanche (verb)
to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly	gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow
move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
move smoothly along a surface

Difference between slide and avalanche

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