verb To move smoothly along a surface while staying in contact with it.
- The skater began to slide across the frozen pond with her arms spread wide.
- The drawer slides open easily on its rails.
- Kids lined up to slide down the hill on their sledges.
verb To decrease gradually in amount, value, or quality.
- Standards at the old cafe began to slide once the original owner retired.
- If you stop practicing, your fitness will slowly slide away.
- The company's share price slid steadily throughout the year.
noun A playground structure that children climb up and slide down.
- Our toddler is finally brave enough to climb the ladder and go down the slide.
- There was a long queue for the big red slide at the playground.
- The kids ran straight for the slide as soon as they reached the park.
noun A single page of a computer presentation.
- The last slide of the talk listed the team's contact details.
- Try not to put too much text on each slide.
- She added a chart to the third slide of her presentation.
noun A thin piece of glass used to hold a sample for viewing under a microscope.
- The students carefully labeled each slide before handing the samples in.
- Be careful, because a glass slide breaks easily if you drop it.
- He placed a drop of pond water on a slide and examined it under the microscope.
