Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to slide
Participle: slid; slidden
Gerund: sliding
Indicative
Present
| I | slide |
| you | slide |
| he;she;it | slides |
| we | slide |
| you | slide |
| they | slide |
Perfect
| I | have slid; slidden |
| you | have slid; slidden |
| he;she;it | has slid; slidden |
| we | have slid; slidden |
| you | have slid; slidden |
| they | have slid; slidden |
Past
| I | slid |
| you | slid |
| he;she;it | slid |
| we | slid |
| you | slid |
| they | slid |
Pluperfect
| I | had slid; slidden |
| you | had slid; slidden |
| he;she;it | had slid; slidden |
| we | had slid; slidden |
| you | had slid; slidden |
| they | had slid; slidden |
Future
| I | will slide |
| you | will slide |
| he;she;it | will slide |
| we | will slide |
| you | will slide |
| they | will slide |
Future Perfect
| I | will have slid; slidden |
| you | will have slid; slidden |
| he;she;it | will have slid; slidden |
| we | will have slid; slidden |
| you | will have slid; slidden |
| they | will have slid; slidden |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | slide |
| you | slide |
| he;she;it | slide |
| we | slide |
| you | slide |
| they | slide |
Perfect
| I | have slid; slidden |
| you | have slid; slidden |
| he;she;it | have slid; slidden |
| we | have slid; slidden |
| you | have slid; slidden |
| they | have slid; slidden |
Imperfect
| I | slid |
| you | slid |
| he;she;it | slid |
| we | slid |
| you | slid |
| they | slid |
Pluperfect
| I | had slid; slidden |
| you | had slid; slidden |
| he;she;it | had slid; slidden |
| we | had slid; slidden |
| you | had slid; slidden |
| they | had slid; slidden |
Conditional
Present
| I | would slide |
| you | would slide |
| he;she;it | would slide |
| we | would slide |
| you | would slide |
| they | would slide |
Perfect
| I | would have slid; slidden |
| you | would have slid; slidden |
| he;she;it | would have slid; slidden |
| we | would have slid; slidden |
| you | would have slid; slidden |
| they | would have slid; slidden |
Imperative
| you | slide |
| we | Let's slide |
| you | slide |
Verbs similar to 'slide'
elide,
glide,
side,
slice,
slike,
slime,
slive,
abide,
aline,
allide,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- glide
- skate, slip, skim, slick, slither, coast, skid, toboggan
- shove
- thrust, push, propel, ram, impel, urge, launch, drive
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
slidan "move smoothly, glide," from P.Gmc.
*slidanan (cf. O.H.G.
slito, Ger.
Schlitten "sledge"), from PIE base
*(s)lei- "slide" (cf. Lith.
slystu "to glide, slide," O.C.S.
sledu "track," Gk.
olisthos "slipperiness,"
olisthanein "to slip," M.Ir.
sloet "slide"). Phrase
to let (something) slide is recorded from c.1386. The noun is 1570, from the verb. Meaning "picture prepared for use with a projector" is attested from 1819 (in magic lantern shows).
Slider as a type of baseball pitch is recorded from 1936.
Slide-rule as a calculating tool is from 1838.
2. From Middle English sliden, from Old English slīdan (“to slide”), from Proto-West Germanic *slīdan, from Proto-Germanic *slīdaną (“to slide, glide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sléydʰ-e-ti, from *sleydʰ- (“slippery”). Cognate with Old High German slītan (“to slide”) (whence German schlittern), Middle Low German slīden (“to slide”), Middle Dutch slīden (“to slide”) (whence Dutch slijderen, frequentative of now obsolete slijden), Vedic Sanskrit स्रेधति (srédhati, “to err, blunder”). See: Middle English '
sliden', Proto-Germanic '
*slīdaną', Old High German 'slītan', German, old spelling '
schlittern', Dutch '
slijderen'.
Verbs referencing "slide"
Portuguese
deslizar, Spanish
deslizar, Swedish
slira.
Sample Sentences
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The labouring of the ship in the troubled sea on this night I shall never forget. ‘Will it ever be worse than this ? ’ was a question I had often heard asked, when everything was sliding and bumping about, and when it certainly did seem difficult to comprehend the possibility of anything afloat being more disturbed, without toppling over and going down. But what the agitation of a [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] dry, grizzly skeletons. Some have just toppled over, and having earth yet about their roots, are bathing their green heads in the river, and putting forth new shoots and branches. Some are almost sliding down, as you look at them. And some were drowned so long ago, that their bleached arms start out from the middle of the current, and seem to try to grasp the boat, and drag it under water.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] cypress swamps, the doleful trees rising out of the slimy, spongy ground, hung with long wreaths of funeral black moss, while ever and anon the loathsome form of the mocassin snake might be seen sliding among broken stumps and shattered branches that lay here and there, rotting in the water.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] soft hand upon him. He thought he knew who it was; and shuddered, with creeping horror, though the face was veiled. Then he thought he felt _that hair_ twining round his fingers; and then, that it slid smoothly round his neck, and tightened and tightened, and he could not draw his breath; and then he thought voices _whispered_ to him,—whispers that chilled him with horror. Then it seemed to him he [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[ chair slides ] -[Chas breathing ] -[floor creaking ]
(Tomorrow, You Pretty Ghost)