slide

«slide» in Mova's judaism dictionary: To move smoothly over a surface while staying in contact… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (slide, slides, slid, sliding); noun (a slide, slides)

meaning for a pupil

1) To move smoothly over a surface while staying in contact with it. tree →

2) A noun: a playground structure you climb up and slide down. tree →

3) A noun: a page in a presentation (slides on a screen), or a small glass piece for looking at things under a microscope. tree →

4) To go slowly into a worse state: «Standards slid». tree →

5) A noun: a hair slide (UK: a clip for hair). tree →

6) A noun: a fall of earth or rock: a landslide. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Tanakh to slide is to lose one's footing. Psalms say that of a person who keeps God's law in his heart, none of his steps slide, meaning he stays steady and safe. Interpretation: The tradition reads this as teaching that holding God's Torah in the heart keeps a person from falling into wrong. In the primary lessons: In science: forces — friction slows things that slide; smooth surfaces let things slide farther; ramps and slopes. In playground safety: go down the slide feet first, one at a time, wait until it's clear, don't climb up the slide. In school: presentation slides; microscope slides. Phrases: slide down, the slide, water slide, landslide, slide show, let things slide.

examples

• The relevant passage is on slide 128.]:] Bound to the tongue like a flame to coal—Alef-Chet-Heh-ʽAyin, serving behind the tongue in the house of swallowing. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
• The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps slide. (Writings PSA.37.31, JPS 1917) tree →
• The children took turns on the slide. tree →
• Go down the slide feet first. tree →
• The book slid off the table. tree →
• We slid on the ice. tree →
• A smooth ramp lets the toy car slide farther. tree →
• Look at the onion skin on the microscope slide. tree →
• Click to the next slide of the presentation. tree →
• The water slide at the pool is huge. tree →
• With trembling hands he pushed back the sliding door and looked in. tree →

note

Irregular: slide, slid, slid (not «slided»). Double d is not used: sliding (one d). In science: less friction = it slides farther. «Let it slide» = ignore a small problem.

In the corpora

• The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps slide.
• Vivid example: in Toronto, red letters slide across the bottom of a cartoon: BREAKING NEWS.
• Leatherback turtles eat huge amounts of jellyfish, and their throats are lined with spikes that keep the slippery food from sliding back out.
• Add soap and the grease slides away.
• Pull a plastic bag slowly and it thins and stretches before it tears, because the chains slide past each other and line up.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «slide» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.