slide

«slide» in Mova's school 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 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 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

• 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.
• Alliteration is the same first sound repeated in words close together: "big brown bear", "slithering snakes slide silently".

Trees and pragmatics

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