Meaning

noun a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study

noun (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.

noun (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale

originFrom 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,…

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