English-Italian translations for slide

• scivolare
  Dobbiamo remare insieme, altrimenti l'Unione europea potrebbe scivolare verso l'irrilevanza.We must row together, otherwise the European Union may slide towards irrelevance.
  L'Europa deve aiutare la Russia a non scivolare ulteriormente in una situazione che sta divenendo intollerabile per un numero vieppiù crescente di persone. Europe must help Russia not to slide down further towards a situation that is becoming intolerable for more and more people.
  I paesi che ora fanno parte del nostro vicinato possono perdere la stabilità e scivolare verso altri principi per ricreare un ordine regionale. Countries which today are part of our neighbourhood may lose their stability and slide towards other principles for establishing regional order.
• scivolo
• derapare
• diapositiva
• discesa
• farfalla
• frana
  Possiamo ancora sperare che in sede di Consiglio altri Stati membri abbiamo coraggio a sufficienza per fermare la frana bioetica che oggi è stata preannunciata e dare inizio a un totale dietro-front. We can still hope that other Member States on the Council will be courageous enough to stop the slide in bioethics heralded today and call for a complete turnaround.
• linguetta zip
• saracinesca
• scorrere
• slittare
• smottamento
• vetrino

Definition of slide

• To move in continuous contact with a surface
• To move on a low-friction surface
• To drop down and skid into a base
• To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface
• To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip
• To pass inadvertently
• To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance
• To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cessation of sound
• An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again
• A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke
• The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche
• An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down
• The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress
• A lever that can be moved in two directions
• A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen
• A flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope Generally referred to as a Wikipedia:Microscope slide|microscope slide
• A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar
• A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure
• A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below
• A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc
• A voluntary stutter used as a technique to control stuttering in one's speech

Examples

• He slid the boat across the grass.
• The safe slid slowly.
• Snow slides down the side of a mountain.
• The car slid on the ice.
• Jones slid into second.
• He slid while going around the corner.
• to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question
• A ship or boat slides through the water.
• The long, red slide was great fun for the kids
• The slide closed the highway
• a slide on the ice
• I still need to prepare some slides for my presentation tomorrow

Related words

• mudslide
• slider
• landslide
• snowslide
• backslider
• backslide
• hairslide
• rockslide
• slideshow