Meaning of slide In English

• 0 to (cause to) move easily and without interruption over a surface:

  • When I was little I used to like sliding on the polished floor in my socks.

  • We have one of those doors in the kitchen that slides open.

  • He slid the letter into his pocket while no one was looking.

  • sliding doors

• 1 to go into a worse state, often through lack of control or care:

  • The dollar slid against other major currencies.

  • Car exports slid by 40 percent this year.

  • He was improving for a while, but I think he's sliding back into his old habits.

  • I was doing really well with my diet, but I've let it slide (= not tried so hard) recently.

• 2 a sudden movement of a large mass of mud (= wet earth) or rock down a hill:

  • a mud/rock slide

  • the slide on a trombone

• 3 the process of moving into a worse state, often through lack of control or care:

  • The government must take measures, he said, to halt the country's slide into recession.

• 4 a small piece of photographic film in a frame that, when light is passed through it, shows a larger image on a screen or plain surface:

  • colour slides

  • My slides were all in the wrong order.

  • Her first slide showed an image of an explosion with a large question mark over it.

• 5 a small piece of glass on which you put something in order to look at it through a microscope

• 6 short form of hair slide UK

• 7 a type of plastic shoe that you can slide your foot into, open at the front and the back, with a wide band or bands across the top of the foot:

  • This season, the must-have pool slide makes a welcome return for sports fans and the fashion pack alike.

  • If there's one piece of advice I can give you, it's buy a pair of sliders.

• 8 to cause something to move easily over a surface, or to move in this way:

  • [ I ] My mother slid into the car seat next to me.

  • [ T ] He slid his hand into his back pocket.

• 9 to go into a worse state, often through lack of control or care:

  • The stock market crashed in October 1929 and the nation slid into a depression.

• 10 a small piece of film in a frame which, when light is passed through it, shows a photograph on a screen:

  • The art history professor showed us slides of the Parthenon today.

• 11 a movement into a worse state, often through lack of control or care:

  • He felt he was on a downward slide in which nothing was going right in his life.

• 12 a structure used by children in their play that has a smooth, sloping side which lets them move down quickly from the top to the ground

• 13 to become worse, lower, or less in value, especially gradually:

  • Economists predict that house prices will continue to slide in most areas.

  • Manufacturing employment has slid for seven months in Minnesota.

  • slide (from sth) to sth The nation's unemployment rate slid to less than 5% last month.

  • slide into sth The economy was sliding into deep crisis.

  • Returns from Government bonds also slid sharply from 6.3% last year to 4.5% this year.

• 14 the process of becoming worse, lower, or less:

  • Several ministers expressed their worry at the euro's slide.

  • a slide in sth The last few months have seen a sharp slide in voter confidence.

  • a slide of sth The corporation's shares ended the day at 509p, a slide of 13p.

  • a downward/sharp/steady slide

  • halt/stop/reverse a slide The French central bank yesterday succeeded in reversing the slide in the franc.

• 15 one of a series of computer screens of information shown in a presentation:

  • The final slide showed two graphs.