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Slide can be a verb or a noun.
slide used as a verb:
- To cause to move in continuous contact with a surface
"He slid the boat across the grass." - To move in continuous contact with a surface.
"The safe slid slowly." - To move on a low friction surface.
"The car slid on the ice." - To drop down and skid into a base.
"Jones slid into second." - To lose one's balance on a slippery surface.
"He slid while going around the corner." - To let pass without action.
"The administrator let the minor infraction slide with only a disapproving look."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
slide used as a noun:
- A toy for children where they climb up and then slide, glide down again.
"The long, red slide was great fun for the kids." - The event of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones moving down the slope of a hill or from a mountain.
"The slide closed the highway." - A lever that can be moved in two directions.
- A valve that works by sliding such as in a trombone.
- A transparent image, to be projected to a screen.
- The act of dropping down and skidding into a base
- A flat, rectangular piece of glass on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope; a microscope slide.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is slide?
- Verb usage: He slid the boat across the grass.
- Verb usage: The safe slid slowly.
- Verb usage: The car slid on the ice.
- Verb usage: Jones slid into second.
- Verb usage: He slid while going around the corner.
- Verb usage: The administrator let the minor infraction slide with only a disapproving look.
- Noun usage: The long, red slide was great fun for the kids.
- Noun usage: The slide closed the highway.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of slide are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of slide, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
