slide glide coast | the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it, his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill, the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope |
chute slide slideway sloping trough | sloping channel through which things can descend |
hair slide | a decorative hinged clip that girls and women put in their hair to hold it in place |
hood latch | a catch that holds the hood of a car shut |
latch | catch for fastening a door or gate, a bar that can be lowered or slid into a groove |
latch door latch | spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key |
night latch | doorlock operated by a knob on the inside and a key on the outside |
pump action slide action | action mechanism in a modern rifle or shotgun, a back and forward motion of a sliding lever ejects the empty shell case and cocks the firearm and loads a new round |
slide lantern slide | a transparency mounted in a frame, viewed with a slide projector |
slide microscope slide | a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study |
slide playground slide sliding board | plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide |
slide fastener zip zipper zip fastener | a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab |
slide projector | projector that projects an enlarged image of a slide onto a screen |
slide rule slipstick | analog computer consisting of a handheld instrument used for rapid calculations, have been replaced by pocket calculators |
slide valve | valve that opens and closes a passageway by sliding over a port |
swoop slide | (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale, the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides |
slide | (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc. |
catch on get wise get onto tumble latch on cotton on twig get it | understand, usually after some initial difficulty, She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on |
take up latch on fasten on hook on seize on | adopt, take up new ideas |
latch on | take hold of or attach to, The biochip latches onto the genes |
latch | fasten with a latch, latch the door |
skid slip slue slew slide | move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner, the wheels skidded against the sidewalk |
slither slide | to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly, They slid through the wicket in the big gate |
slump slide down sink | fall or sink heavily, He slumped onto the couch, My spirits sank |
elapse lapse pass slip by glide by slip away go by slide by go along | pass by, three years elapsed |
slide | move smoothly along a surface, He slid the money over to the other gambler |