the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it | a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air |
sloping channel through which things can descend | a socially awkward or tactless act |
a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector | the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning) |
a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study | an unexpected slide |
plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide | a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. |
(music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale | a woman's sleeveless undergarment |
(geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc. | bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow |
| artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material |
| a small sheet of paper |
| a slippery smoothness |
| an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall |
| a place where a craft can be made fast |
| a young and slender person |
| a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting |
| potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics |