Definitions for sliding

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sliding slid·ing

Spelling: [slahy-ding]

IPA: /ˈslaɪ dɪŋ/

Sliding is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in sliding (dgiilns).

Definitions for sliding

noun

1. an act or instance of sliding.
2. a smooth surface for sliding on, especially a type of chute in a playground.
3. an object intended to slide.
4. Geology. a landslide or the like. the mass of matter sliding down.
5. a single transparency, object, or image for projection in a projector, as a lantern slide.
6. Photography. a small positive color transparency mounted for projection on a screen or magnification through a viewer.
7. a usually rectangular plate of glass on which objects are placed for microscopic examination.
8. Furniture. a shelf sliding into the body of a piece when not in use.
9. Music. an embellishment consisting of an upward or downward series of three or more tones, the last of which is the principal tone. a portamento. a U -shaped section of the tube of an instrument of the trumpet class, as the trombone, that can be pushed in or out to alter the length of the air column and change the pitch.
10. a vehicle mounted on runners, for conveying loads, as of grain or wood, especially over a level surface.
11. a moving part working on a track, channel, or guide rails. the surface, track, channel, or guide rails on which the part moves.
12. any of various chutes used in logging, mining, or materials handling.
13. a flat or very low-heeled, backless shoe or slipper that can be slipped on and off the foot easily.

Idioms

1. let slide, to allow to deteriorate, pursue a natural course, etc., without intervention on one's part:

adjective

1. rising or falling, increasing or decreasing, according to a standard or to a set of conditions.
2. operated, adjusted, or moved by sliding:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to slide, slip, or coast, as over a surface or with a smooth, gliding motion.
2. to hand, pass along, or slip (something) easily or quietly (usually followed by in, into, etc.):

verb (used without object)

1. to move along in continuous contact with a smooth or slippery surface:
2. to slip or skid.
3. to glide or pass smoothly.
4. to slip easily, quietly, or unobtrusively on or as if on a track, channel, or guide rail (usually followed by in, out, away, etc.).
5. to pass or fall gradually into a specified state, character, practice, etc.
6. to decline or decrease:
7. Baseball. (of a base runner) to cast oneself, usually feet first, forward along the ground in the direction of the base being approached, to present less of a target for a baseman attempting to make a tag.

Origin of sliding

before 900; Middle English; Old English slīdende. See slide, -ing²

Examples for sliding

sliding around beneath the surface of Los Angeles is something dark, primordial, and without form.

Paddling across the glassy flat surface feels like sliding through warm butter.

I have been sliding off and clambering on ever since I bade goodbye to Havant.

Each room has its own swimming pool and sliding walls made of glass.

Or perhaps EBT programs could permit the purchase of ethical items based on a sliding price scale.

White Fang, sliding by in quest of meat, stopped and began to eat the chips.

Its nose was to the trail, and it trotted with a peculiar, sliding, effortless gait.

A soft, sliding hillock of sand lay directly in front of them.

Wally and Jack were sliding their chairs back from the table preparing to follow him.

In France, parents pay for their childcare on a sliding scale based on their income—the rest is subsidized by the government.