slide English · revision 6135

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=before 950|origins=ine-pro *sleydʰ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /slaɪd/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is Middle English sliden, [[inh|ang|slīdan|t=to glide, slip, fall]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986)^(Etymonline) from [[gem-pro|*slīdaną]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) related to [[gmh|slīten|t=to slide]] and [[goh|slito|t=sledge]] (German Schlitten);^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) see also [[sled]] and [[sledge]].^(NODE 1998) Outside Germanic it is cognate with [[grc|ὀλισθάνειν|tr=olisthánein|t=to slip, fall]], [[lt|slýsti|t=to glide]] and [[sa|स्रेधति|tr=srédhati|t=glides off, goes astray]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) from PIE [[ine-pro|*sleydʰ-|t=slippery; to slide]].^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ To move smoothly, glide: Old English slīdan, before 950;^(Barnhart 1988) it also meant to fall, and figuratively to lapse morally, err, or be transitory.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Middle English sliden kept both gliding and losing one's footing.^(Etymonline) The noun, the act of sliding, is from 1570 in Barnhart and MWU, the 1560s in Etymonline,^(Barnhart 1988)^(MWU 2024)^(Etymonline) and a smooth inclined surface for sliding things down from the 1680s;^(Etymonline) the playground slide is by 1900, short for sliding board (1899).^(Etymonline) A landslide is from the 1660s,^(Etymonline) and a sliding part of a musical instrument from 1800, as in the slide trombone (1891).^(Etymonline) A picture for projection is from 1819, of magic lanterns, earlier a slider (1793),^(Etymonline) and the [[slide show]] is attested by 1949.^(Etymonline) A rapid downturn, ''on the slide'', is from 1884,^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) and a sliding approach to a base in baseball from 1886.^(OED 1989) In music a slide is also a kind of grace (1818) and in jazz a glissando (1959).^(OED 1989) [[slide rule|alt=Slide rule]] is from the 19th century.^(SOED 2002)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * before 950 – Old English slīdan.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1570 – the noun, the act of sliding.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1660s – a landslide.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1819 – a lantern slide.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1884 – a rapid decline.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline)

+ * 1886 – a slide in baseball.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1900 – a playground slide.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To move smoothly over a surface while keeping in contact with it.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To [[glide]] over ice or snow.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To pass smoothly or quietly; to slip: ''she slid into the room''.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To pass gradually into a worse state: ''to slide into debt''.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # An act of sliding.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A smooth sloping surface for sliding down, especially in a [[playground]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A small piece of glass on which a specimen is placed for viewing under a [[microscope]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A photographic image on a transparent base for projection on a screen.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A [[landslide]] or avalanche.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A sliding part of a mechanism or instrument, as of a [[trombone]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[slidable]]

+ * [[slidableness]]

+ * [[landslide]]

+ * [[mudslide]]

+ * [[backslide]]

+ * [[catslide]]

+ * [[downslide]]

+ * [[outslide]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[slider]]

+ * [[sled]]

+ * [[sledge]]

+ * [[sleigh]]

+ * [[slither]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}