Word Finder - slides

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An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.

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The long, red slide was great fun for the kids.

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A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.

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The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.

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The slide closed the highway.

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An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down.

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A mechanism consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.

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The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.

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a slide on the ice

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A lever that can be moved in two directions.

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A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.

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A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.

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(by extension) A page of a computer presentation package such as PowerPoint.

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I still need to prepare some slides for my presentation tomorrow.

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A flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope Generally referred to as a microscope slide.

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The act of dropping down and skidding into a base

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(guitar) A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.

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A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.

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A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.

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A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.

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A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.

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A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.

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(footwear) A shoe that is backless and open-toed.

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(speech therapy) A voluntary stutter used as a technique to control stuttering in one's speech.

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To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface

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He slid the boat across the grass.

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To move on a low-friction surface.

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The car slid on the ice.

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To drop down and skid into a base.

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Jones slid into second.

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To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.

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He slid while going around the corner.

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To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.

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to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question

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To pass inadvertently.

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To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.

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A ship or boat slides through the water.

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To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cessation of sound.

These slides are shown in fig.

The highway department would periodically close the road and, using explosive devices, create slides in a controlled condition, lessening the chance for a surprising and perhaps deadly run loosed by nature on the unsuspecting below.

But the wind slides eastward over its opaque surface in vain, till it reaches the living surface beyond.

The later English artists have somewhat changed the mode of communicating motion to the slides, by attaching the screws pdrmanently to the micrometer head and tapping each micrometer screw into its slide.

One of the few uses of crown-glass of this kind is the glass slides upon which microscopic specimens are mounted, as well as the thin glass slips with which such preparations are covered.

The platen was screwed on to the under surface of the spindle; the table or bed had slides underneath which moved in, and not on, ribs as in the older form of press, and was run in and out by means of strips of webbing fastened to each end and passed round a drum or wheel.

Underneath the top plate of the machine, and strongly framed to it, is a box, which contains the horizontal rods to the ends of which are attached the slides which regu late the flow of sugar from the 8 bottom of the hopper.

If less, A slides over B, the rate of motion being determined by the excess of the effort over the resistance (friction).

He waved at bottles, beakers, and slides.

While back-country skiing was also popular, the ever constant danger of killing snow slides made marked trails a safer method of enjoying this vigorous sport.

The slides are accurately fitted so as to have no sensible lateral shake, but yet so as to move easily in the direction of the greatest length of the micrometer box.

In this micrometer the three slides moved by S, s, and s' are simple dovetails.

I, 2 and 3), used to bolt the head of one of the screws, and the instrument was provided with a slipping piece, giving motion to the micrometer by screws acting on two slides, one in right ascension, the other in declination, so that " either of the, webs can be placed upon either component of a double star with ease and certainty (Mem.

All the essential parts of the micrometer, including the slides, micrometer box, tube, etc., are of steel or cast-iron, so that changes of temperature do not affect the adjustments.

Owing to their want of adhesiveness, they are, however, usually mounted on glass as microscopic slides, either in glycerin jelly, Canada balsam or some other suitable medium.

Microscopic fungi are usually preserved in envelopes, or simply attached to sheets of paper or mounted as microscopic slides.

The test bar C C, which slides through holes bored in the yoke, is divided near the middle into two parts, the ends which come into contact being faced true and square.

This head slides freely in the cast iron tubes, and is connected by a copper rod with one of the terminals of the dynamo supplying the current.

The slides are moved by the screws a and b, the divided heads of which serve to measure the separation of the segments.

The reading micrometers e, f also serve to measure, independently, the separation of the segments, by scales attached to the slides; such measurements can be employed as a check on those made by the screws.

On the other hand it is not necessary to reset the telescope after each reversal of the segments.4 When Bessel ordered the Konigsberg heliometer, he was anxious to have the segments made to move in cylindrical slides, of which the radius should be equal to the focal length of the object-glass.

It permits complete rotation of the tube and measurement of all angles in reversed positions of the circle; the handles that move the slides can be brought down to the eye-end, inside the tube, and consequently made to rotate with it; and the position circle may be placed at the end of the cradle next the eyeend where it is convenient of access.

The screw, turned by the wheels at g', acts in a toothed arc, whence, as shown in the figure, equal and opposite motion is communicated to the slides by the jointed rods v, v.

The slides are kept firmly down to their bearings by the rollers r, r, r, r, attached to axes which are, in the middle, very strong springs.

The mounting, the tube, objective-cell, slides, &c., are all of steel.'

The prism p is fitted accurately into brass slides (care has to be taken in the construction to place the prism so that an object in the centre of the field will so remain when the eye-piece is rotated in its adapter).

As soon as a hot billet A is withdrawn by pushing it endwise out of the exit door B, the whole row is pushed forward by a set of mechanical pushers C, the billets sliding on the raised water-cooled pipes D, and, in the hotter part of the furnace, on the magnesite bricks E, on which iron slides easily when red-hot.

On the 9th the admiral received a report that working parties had been seen in Fort Silsileh parbuckling two smoothbore gunsapparently 32-pounderstowards their respective carriages and slides, which were facing in the direction of the harbour.

It is utilized in the spindles of machinetools, in the balls and rollers for high-speed bearings, slides, pivots and such like.

Again, the normal pressure between two surfaces disappears from the equation, provided the displacements be such that one of these surfaces merely slides relatively to the other.

As a simple example, take the case of a light frame, whose bars form the slides of a rhombus ABCD with the diagonal BD, suspended from A and carrying a weight W at C; and let it be required to find the stress in BD.

Shifting in a straight line is regulated either by straight fixed guides, in contact with which the moving piece slides, or by combinations of link-work, called parallel motions, which will be described in the sequel.

A cross-table is very convenient for this calculation, for with the aid of the two movable slides situated in the plane of the plate and at right angles to one another, the point where the two crystal edges intersect can be quickly and correctly brought into the revolving axis of the plate.

The air is distributed by means of wood air trunks with openings controlled by slides, and similar trunks are pro vided in connexion with the suction of the compresser to conduct the air back to the machine.

The air cooler is placed at the end, and the air is distributed by means of wood ducts furnished with slides for regulating the temperature of the rooms, which are insulated according to the method shown in fig.

In addition the library has a large audio-visual collection comprising of videotapes, audiotapes and slides.

Project the photos to create a backdrop to the assembly, changing slides for each voice.

In most cases, slides also detach head deposits overlying bedrock.

They went to chemists for assorted hair bobbles and slides.

Teachers can edit the slides to make the timeline more complicated or easier.

If the language is not English we strongly recommend the use of slides in English to facilitate comprehension.

I would also recommend investing in one or two well slides which are thicker and have a deeper concavity.

One of the slides showed diatoms from Port Townsend, situated a bit north of Seattle, USA, on the Pacific coast.

Rides galore, to suit a cross-section of ages from funfair style dodgems and slides to an under fives fantasty farm area.

These may range from a simple flip chart to slides and videos.

The slide labels, even handwritten ones, scan well so the scanner allows both text and image compilation of slides in one go.

Click Here Further Details histology of the Nervous System This page contains 40 different slides showing the histology of the nervous system.

The supporting slides are only illustrative of the possible sources.

He has in addition a very good set of slides for a magic lantern.

It had merry-go-rounds, slides, what have you.