I pulled him out by a leg, and there was a trail of blood and bubbles where his mouth had slid along the ground.
McCarthy skated three strides across the line and slid a lead pass to Howe.
She slid down one strap to her elbow, and the other strap followed suit.
After Stewart had slid into second base Pete, looking somewhat surprised, took his hand off the phone.
I opened the rear door, slid Valerie into the back seat, and tumbled after her.
The past slid from him so easily, he forgot even to try to forget.
But Allister slid out of his saddle and Dozier stayed in his.
He was so astonished at what he saw that he slid behind the open door out of sight.
Linda slid down the side of the canyon with the deftness of the expert.
After a little, he slid to the ground and limped over to her.
past tense and past participle of slide (v.).
Old English slidan (intransitive, past tense slad, past participle sliden) "to glide, slip, fall, fall down;" figuratively "fail, lapse morally, err; be transitory or unstable," from Proto-Germanic *slidan "to slip, slide" (cf. Old High German slito, German Schlitten "sleigh, sled"), from PIE root *sleidh- "to slide, slip" (cf. Lithuanian slystu "to glide, slide," Old Church Slavonic sledu "track," Greek olisthos "slipperiness," olisthanein "to slip," Middle Irish sloet "slide").
Meaning "slip, lose one's footing" is from early 13c. Transitive sense from 1530s. Phrase let (something) slide "let it take its own course" is in Chaucer (late 14c.). Sliding scale in reference to payments, etc., is from 1842.
1560s, from slide (v.). As a smooth inclined surface down which something can be slid, from 1680s; the playground slide is from 1890. Meaning "collapse of a hillside, landslide" is from 1660s. As a working part of a musical instrument from 1800 (e.g. slide-trombone, 1891). Meaning "rapid downturn" is from 1884. Meaning "picture prepared for use with a projector" is from 1819 (in reference to magic lanterns). Baseball sense is from 1886. Slide-guitar is from 1968.
slide (slīd)
n.
A small glass plate for mounting specimens to be examined under a microscope.
noun
verb
To depart; split (1859+)