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slide
What does slide mean?
slide (verb): move smoothly along a surface.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use slide in a sentence?
- Snow slides down the side of a mountain. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
- He slid the boat across the grass. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
How do you pronounce slide?
/slaɪd/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does slide come from?
Inherited from Middle English sliden, from Old English slīdan.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “slide” mean?
move smoothly along a surface
Right! That's what “slide” means.
to manage, control, or direct
Not quite: that's what handle means.
to bring (a thing) up to date
Not quite: that's what update means.
to puncture; to break through
Not quite: that's what pierce means.
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