I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a door slides open/shut (= moves smoothly to the side or back again )
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The lift doors slid open and we got in.
hair slide
sink/slip/slide into oblivion (= fade into oblivion )
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It was once a popular game, but it has since sunk into oblivion.
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The old machines eventually slid into oblivion.
slide projector
slide rule
slide/fall/descend into anarchy
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The nation is in danger of falling into anarchy.
slide/slip into recession (= start to experience a recession )
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Most analysts don’t believe the economy will slide into recession.
slide/slip/sink into obscurity (= fade into obscurity )
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Many scientific theories are never proved and slip into obscurity.
sliding door
sliding scale
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Fees are calculated on a sliding scale.
water slide
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
along
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It stepped through the door and the tentacles started to slide along the walls towards her.
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We could see the shadows of the clouds sliding along beneath them far into the distance.
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Her hand slid along a wall to a light switch.
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A huge snake was unravelling from a tree, sliding along the forest floor.
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That causes their gaze to slide along with the movement of their heads, leaving them confused and nauseated.
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A huge explosion drowned the enemy fire and Killion caught a glimpse of a burning bomber slowly sliding along on its nose.
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Normally they are supposed to bend to allow the car to slide along them.
around
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There is a lot more to being a national team member, however, than just sliding around on skis.
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His movements were becoming liquid and his eyes were beginning to slide around in their sockets like marbles in oil.
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A non-slip mat will help prevent her sliding around .
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Whenever we tried to head north, our camels began to slide around in mud.
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At first, Carrington had listened with unease as Morton had blandly slid around his assassination claims.
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They let them slide around on the polished floor and listen to music on the ward radio.
away
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Far, far away Beyond the heather, sliding away all night.
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As the bag inflates, the book will be pushed off and slide away . 4.
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He looked across the table at Jean-Paul, and Jean-Paul's eyes slid away .
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Its thin current slides away , but eternity remains.
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They slid away furtively, the pink lids blinking.
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Lux studied his notepad, the smile sliding away .
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Reality began to slide away outside, and a sphincter of darkness drew tight around the windows.
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Sylvie's coffin slid away , swallowed up by flames they couldn't see.
back
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Just the same, Wyss found himself sliding , and sensed the others sliding back too, and nothing could stop them.
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He slid back on the mat to where she sat, and he handed her the jay.
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Then, like in a cell door, a six-inch square panel slides back , and part of a face looks out.
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Turning off the light, she slid back under the covers and closed her eyes to sleep fitfully until noon.
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He took one last look into the abyss and slid back .
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She slid back a curtain of heavy red velvet that screened a door beside the piano, and led him through.
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Unfortunately, as the tranquillizer wears off so the plunger gradually slides back up and the former level of stress returns.
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When we get to our room, she slides back the fusuma, the paper doors.
by
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Their known, nearly identical faces, slid by in a wave of tawdry dinner jackets, sequinned old lace.
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Next to the levee where no steamboat will probably ever dock again, the Missouri still slides by .
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As she turned uphill, a dark-red Daimler slid by , and blew its horn at her.
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The weedy water slid by between him and the shoals and ledges.
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The train slid by , crammed with strange faces.
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The weeks in the lab slid by without difficulty.
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The lights of Rialto slid by on the right.
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The Platte Valley slid by for a whole day before they even got to Omaha.
down
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Then he shot his legs up into the sky and slid down without a splash.
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He slid down on his spine so he could rest his head on the back of the seat.
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He slid down to the low jagged gappy wall.
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It seemed like it took 12 minutes for it to slide down his body and hit the ground.
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She bit her lip as two large tears slid down her cheeks.
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A tear found its way from under her eyelid, sliding down her cheek.
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And slid down , unable to brake himself, breaking one bone then another.
in
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Chief Justice Fortescue slid in like a spider, scuttling across to sit next to the Duke.
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Obediently she slid in beside him.
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Mr Hallam said he slid in for the tackle and they ended up with their legs tangled.
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McMurphy was there, studying the deck of cards that slid in and out of sight in his hands.
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Both models slide in and out so that you can clean behind.
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After a few minutes he got up, stripped and slid in between the sheets.
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He can't have known how Friend slid in to change my adaptation!
off
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The first would have slid off into the darkness.
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Well, you never saw jokes hit a ballroom floor and slide off like those did.
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With a peaked cap sliding off his head...
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There the whales deliberately tilt the floes so that seals slide off into the water and into the jaws of their attackers.
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Simon had wedged the handle under his thigh to stop the knife from sliding off into space.
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I slid off the seat, keeping my eyes down, expecting to see a smear of red blood on the chair.
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Many unattached skis went sliding off down the hill at incredible speed.
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A granite sheet 200 feet high and up to 50 feet thick suddenly slid off Glacier Point.
on
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It is then raised to the correct height and slid on to the hub.
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Fred slid on to the seat beside him.
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Dot watched half a dumpling sliding on to her plate.
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It doesn't have to be slid on at the end of the needlebed.
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Should you wish to pull it out for cleaning, it slides on thoughtfully designed skid feet.
open
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Lucy walked up the fight of steps; the plate glass doors slid open electronically as she crossed the beam.
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Quick as a flash, Lavender got her pencil-box from her satchel and slid open the lid just a tiny bit.
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As the doors slid open he glanced at the middle-aged couple who got out but then stared straight ahead again.
out
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Opening one of the refrigerator doors, she slid out a body.
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The information flashed on the display screen; simultaneously, a sheet of paper slid out of the slot immediately beneath it.
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Then he straightened up, and, carrying something, slid out through the window on to the lawn.
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The moon slid out from behind a cloud and again lit up the open land.
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He slid out and slammed the door, and Vora accelerated away.
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As he was studying it, something slid out from the pages and fluttered to the floor.
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Frequently he slid out from behind the pulpit and sauntered along the aisle as he spoke.
over
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The water was just right, slid over his skin as he gave out a long low satisfied moan into the steam.
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When your work slides over into Stage 4 toxicity, you forget the little things that can make big differences.
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He pulls off all his clothes and slides over towards me.
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She slid over on top of him, warm.
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His thumb slid over the swelling mound outlined beneath the silk, trailed over the ripening bud at its centre.
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The layers readily slide over one another.
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Twenty four spokes slide over a fixed cam, so that as they move they change length and unbalance the wheel.
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Perhaps ... She slid over to the control panel.
slowly
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Unaware that she was holding her breath, Isabel slowly slid her arms around his waist.
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As the train slid slowly into Asansol station, Brother Mariadas, suddenly wide awake, shook me out of my reverie.
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The ice beneath him gave; he braced himself, and slid slowly into the muddy lake up to his neck.
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Yet statistics that show voter turnout slowly sliding down, down.
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His breath came fast and shallow, and he slid slowly down the bed again.
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The hours slid slowly down the great entropy slope of the universe.
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Semi-conscious, he slid slowly down, his feet and legs sinking into the freezing slush at the bottom.
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A huge explosion drowned the enemy fire and Killion caught a glimpse of a burning bomber slowly sliding along on its nose.
up
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Then pinch a small shot on the line at the other end to stop the slug from sliding up the line.
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Hornaday winds up sliding into the outside wall.
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Her hand was loosening his tie, his was sliding up the tingling curve of her thigh.
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If you build your jig slightly larger than your posts it will slide up and down more easily.
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An icy chill slid up his spine, causing the hair at his nape to rise.
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First one hand, then the other, slid up the inside of my thighs.
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His hand slid up her thigh and found fine silk and lace in his way.
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Jackie's delicate fingers felt around the frame, applied a light pressure, and the window slid up about eighteen inches.
■ NOUN
arm
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Unaware that she was holding her breath, Isabel slowly slid her arms around his waist.
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I slid an arm under his shoulder and hugged him with the other.
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But he saw her hand fly up and hold her mouth, he saw Creed slide an arm round her shoulder.
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With infinite care, Induk slides her arms around my back, cradling me into her heat.
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She slid her arms into her silk robe and tied it loosely at the waist.
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Too full to speak, Paige slid her arm about his waist and let the hovering waves of sleep drift over her.
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She stumbled on the rough surface and Roman slid his arm round her waist, holding her against him.
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His kiss was tender and Ruth slid her arms around his neck and returned the warmth.
bed
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She switched off the hall light and closed the door, then she slid gently into bed .
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I slid down in my bed , my hair fanning out over the headboard like a thick black fringe.
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Then she slid from the bed and went to the new bathroom opposite their bedroom.
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He was ready to slide off the bed again and try to stop me.
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She slipped into her nightie and slid into bed beside Tom, who was asleep and breathing through his mouth.
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I slid out of bed and began to dress silently in front of the window.
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It was nerve-racking, having him watch her as she slid her feet out of bed , and pushed them into soft mules.
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Ezra slid off the high bed and into his britches.
car
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The nine-year-old tearaway was arrested when a driver caught him trying to get into his car by sliding through the sunroof.
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He was suddenly shaken from his thoughts by a car which slid silently to a halt beside him.
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Then she heard the sound of a car starting and tyres sliding on a dirt road.
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The car slid quietly between the cradled yachts to stop just short of Wavebreaker's pier.
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I was into Regazzoni's car which was sliding backwards and my rear wheels climbed over his.
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Normally they are supposed to bend to allow the car to slide along them.
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There's all these hundreds of cars sliding past with their lights all red and white.
chair
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Actual shearing injury to the sacral tissues and the heels may even be caused by patients sliding forward on vinyl-covered chairs .
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He moved quickly almost charging in the door, and slid into a chair opposite me.
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But seconds after Christopher slid from his chair , Brady clicked a stopwatch.
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Janir slid off his chair and ran out of the room.
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Norm groaned and slid down in his chair .
door
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She pushed against the garage door and it slid upwards.
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He moved quickly almost charging in the door , and slid into a chair opposite me.
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Opening one of the refrigerator doors , she slid out a body.
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She opened the oven door and slid the pan of biscuits in.
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Passing discreetly through the solid wood of the garage door he slid right into the skulking Omally.
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I lock the front door and start to slide the key automatically into my purse.
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The door to the corridor slid open.
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I went up to the mystery door and slid my strip of steel between it and the jamb.
finger
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Too much space now for the coin to be useful, his finger could slide under the lip.
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His numbed fingers slid down the side and the drum bobbed away.
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Baron was pretty impressive: The sound of a wet finger sliding across a drum head resembles nothing else.
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I quenched the candle flame with my fingers and slid into the bed chamber.
floor
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He managed to murmur Mayli's name, then closed his eyes and slid down to the floor .
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Sethe slid to the floor and struggled to get back into her dress.
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A huge snake was unravelling from a tree, sliding along the forest floor .
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They slid along the floor silent as fog and hoisted themselves to the foot of the bed to sit grinning.
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It scraped to one side as they slid to the carpeted floor .
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Converse nodded thoughtfully and slid back on to the floor to sleep.
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As I slid to the floor I was kicked hard in the face with a slippered foot.
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Miguel slid down to the floor in a squat.
foot
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It was nerve-racking, having him watch her as she slid her feet out of bed, and pushed them into soft mules.
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She pulled on her towelling bathrobe and slid her feet into a pair of sandals.
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She twisted away, pushing with her elbows, sliding off toward the foot of the bed.
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Very slowly I took my weight on the good hand and slid my feet over the rim of the tub.
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Then slide the left foot into place next to your right foot.
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Continue moving by once again stepping out with your right foot , then sliding the left foot into place next to it.
glass
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Then slide the glass slowly across to cover the compartment.
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Untraveledroadie: You and only you see the sliding glass door in me.
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I slid the glass door back and took out a cup.
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To our left, the sliding glass door absorbed our profiles.
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It is important always to slide the glass , never lift it off the block.
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According to Mendoza, one of the four agents at the sliding glass door demanded that she let them in.
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Felicia slides her glass forward and he refills it with grape juice.
ground
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A swing can only occur if the tail is sliding sideways over the ground .
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The fingers gripping her windpipe slackened and Irina slumped backwards against the desk and slid to the ground .
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A gust of wind caught it and it slid towards the ground , but only for a moment or so.
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She felt dizzy and slid awkwardly to the ground , leaning her head on her hand.
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Brian thought his neck was going to break, and his knees buckled and he slid down to the ground .
hand
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When he reached for her hand , it slid away from his.
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His hand slid under my chemise.
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For a moment, Vitor gazed at the ring in his hand , then he slid it into his hip pocket.
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His hand slid the vest-top from one shoulder and his hand immediately smoothed over her golden flesh.
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There was blood on the girder where Gazzer's hands were sliding helplessly down ....
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His hand slid up her thigh and found fine silk and lace in his way.
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He lifted one hand and slid it around the slim column of her neck.
seat
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I quickly slid into a seat at the back, and sat back to observe proceedings.
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He slid off the seat and took my hand.
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Fred slid on to the seat beside him.
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A few seconds later, Erma Bombeck gave up her first class seat and slid into the coach seat next to me.
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He slid down into the seat again.
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I slid off the seat , keeping my eyes down, expecting to see a smear of red blood on the chair.
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Moments later Dan Brady slid into the seat opposite.
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As I slid into my seat next to Polly, it seemed to me that Iris looked at me strangely.
sheet
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He slid from the sheets , pulled on shorts and a vest, then groped beneath the bed.
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I slid from between the sheets and walked barefoot across the cold tile between the beds.
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I undressed completely and slid between sheets of finest satin, smooth as diving into a dream.
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After a few minutes he got up, stripped and slid in between the sheets .
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Without even bothering to put on her pyjamas, she slid in between her sheets .
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She slid between the sheets and put her arms around me.
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With the forefinger of her left hand, she slid out a single sheet of paper from the pile at her side.
wall
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It slid down the wall , leaving behind it a trail of dark brown juice, like bile.
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Hornaday winds up sliding into the outside wall .
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It stepped through the door and the tentacles started to slide along the walls towards her.
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Her hand slid along a wall to a light switch.
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He slid down the wall and sat with a bump.
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Slowly she slid down the wall , her back cold against the plaster until she sat upon her haunches.
water
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She had desperately scrambled at the shiny sides of the toilet-bowl as she slid into the water but to no avail.
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There the whales deliberately tilt the floes so that seals slide off into the water and into the jaws of their attackers.
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She slid deeper into the water with a sigh.
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The entire car, with him inside it, has slid underneath the water .
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The machine turned upside down as I slid into the water .
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A breeze, a small thing, had slid in from open water .
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Trying not to look cross, I slid into the water .
■ VERB
begin
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As soon as they were taken from shelter, they began to slide on locked wheels over the yard, and then to tilt.
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It began to slide toward the gradually opening door.
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In the 1960s, says Menotti, Rome Opera began to slide down hill.
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As I reached for it, I began to slide .
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Reality began to slide away outside, and a sphincter of darkness drew tight around the windows.
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Whenever we tried to head north, our camels began to slide around in mud.
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It came as the drug took control and she began to slide away.
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Scenes begin with a camera sliding across or moving slowly into a Los Angeles exterior.
let
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The Allies, however, had no intention of letting the armistice arrangements slide by default into a full-blown peace.
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On the other hand, what kind of feminist would I be if I let it slide ?
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Half way along he unlocked a garage and let the door slide up to reveal a newish Range Rover.
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You have to be tough about letting things slide .
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You can now unscrew the nut and let it slide down the pipe as you don't need it now.
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Dalgliesh let his eyes slide down the page.
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I let my back slide down the pillar until I was virtually squatting on the floor.
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It's no good just letting things slide .
start
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Then she heard the sound of a car starting and tyres sliding on a dirt road.
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I exclaimed in relief, as the windows of the adjacent train started to slide past ours.
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Nails watched it with horrified fascination, and saw it start to slide towards him.
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I lock the front door and start to slide the key automatically into my purse.
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I could feel myself starting to slide off into sleep.
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I said, feeling myself about to start sliding back.
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But don't sell just because the price starts to slide .
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The rupiah is starting to slide again, and the stock market is heading in the same direction.
stop
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Then pinch a small shot on the line at the other end to stop the slug from sliding up the line.
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Starch, unable to stop , slid 20 feet to the edge of an escarpment.
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Simon had wedged the handle under his thigh to stop the knife from sliding off into space.
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Lais stopped and slid her arms around him, resting her head against his chest.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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""Your money,'' said White, as he slid a roll of banknotes across the table.
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Slide your card into the machine and then tap in your number.
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Fold the omelette over, slide it onto a plate, and serve immediately.
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Harry slid across the bench so he was sitting next to me.
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Prices will continue to slide unless production is reduced.
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Several glasses slid off the tray and crashed to the floor.
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Students' test scores started to slide in the mid-1980s.
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The children were having a great time, sliding around on the polished floor.
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The coffin was slid into the waiting hearse.
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The dollar fell in late trading in New York yesterday and slid further this morning.
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We slipped and slid, losing our balance on the ice
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He slid back on the mat to where she sat, and he handed her the jay.
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He helps slide the jacket down my arms.
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His movements were becoming liquid and his eyes were beginning to slide around in their sockets like marbles in oil.
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Is Swindon sliding towards Skid Row?
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The door to the corridor slid open.
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They slid about across her eyeballs.
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When he reached for her hand, it slid away from his.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
downward
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Male speaker My wife lost her job; she was the main earner and basically from then on it was downward slide .
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It lasted until summer 1947, but big bands were on a downward slide and Armstrong found leading a headache.
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The downward slide is in danger of becoming a drop over the precipice.
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Now it believes it has halted the downward slide following a restructuring and product strategy review over the past year.
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Comments like these are picked up quickly by the Bad ` Un and used to exacerbate our downward slide into negativism.
■ NOUN
glass
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Impression smears of the filters on glass slides were air dried, acetone fixed and Gram stained.
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Further damage to preparations caused by local heating includes blistering of thin section bonding resins and even cracking of the glass slide .
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Otherwise, the sandwich is placed on the saw and the first glass slide cut off.
microscope
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Find an amoeba in a drop of pondwater on a microscope slide .
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Both the microscope slide and the culture were positive for the gonococcus.
mud
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The largest of them, Rocinha, somehow houses 60,000 people in tiny shacks that are regularly engulfed in mud slides .
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Have you ever seen mud slide ?
presentation
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Marketing director Robin Ritchie made a fast-moving slide presentation - based on earlier presentations to the chairman and directors.
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Video or slide presentations undoubtedly have their place, but they have by no means supplanted the need for high quality publications.
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The first day included a series of slide presentations and guided tours of the departments.
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He can advise us on the best brochure layouts, promotional photography, video or slide presentation - the whole package.
projector
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The board is a complex series of slide projectors and lights.
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Lecture Theatre A/V equipment including slide projectors , cine projectors and P/A system.
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They learned to organize promotional efforts, to make check-off lists, and to utilize telephones, slide projectors , and tapes.
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The mind boggles at the complexity of a system using twelve slide projectors producing 4,000 pictures during the 2¼ hour performance.
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Slides projected by a slide projector .
rule
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Greatly skilled at plotting the heavens and working things out on the old slide rule .
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Mechanical calculators, punch-card machines and slide rules illustrate the earliest forms of computers.
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The slide rule , the calculating machine, and the computer are the enemies of the arithmetic mind.
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There were several colors of pencils, even a slide rule , at which she was frowning.
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They are not activities which can be accomplished with a slide rule or computer or calculator.
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All of them will make either a slide rule or an abacus as a way of presenting how number sets work.
show
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There is the opportunity to have a look at a slide show and purchase promotional gifts.
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By the time we met again, I had put together a low-budget slide show .
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The meeting was complete with a slide show prepared by the National League of Cities that explained the block grant program.
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There's also a slide show and talk presented by ex P.O.W.'s once incarcerated in Colditz, followed by dinner.
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He was constantly weighing how to advance the sister-parish relationship Was a slide show about Madre too little?
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The Alpenblick offers a weekly slide show and regular guided walks with the owner.
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The slide show and talk is free and begins at 7 p.m.
water
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Whatever the foundation chooses to build must compete with gigantic water slides and upside-down roller coasters a few miles away.
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At the beginning of this not-so-long water slide , summer seems truly endless.
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Most visitors spend the day in their bathing suits to hop on a water slide or tube.
■ VERB
halt
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City have gone four games without a goal and Reid wants to halt the slide .
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The structure that I have suggested is sufficiently robust to halt that slide and ensure that acute care remains free throughout.
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Crosby is determined to buy this week to halt the Roker slide down the First Division table.
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Now it believes it has halted the downward slide following a restructuring and product strategy review over the past year.
place
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The paraffin block was cut into 3 µm thick sections which were placed on slides .
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A more ruthless woman would have let the whole place slide into chaos until he learned to do things for himself.
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The latter process is made easier by placing the slide in a refrigerator for a few minutes.
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The particle was placed on a polymer-coated slide .
play
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I'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band.
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I had this one-string bass I was playing with a slide .
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Parents kept glancing at her; so did Anna, as she played morosely on the slide and the largest swing.
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That planted the idea that you could play guitar with a slide .
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He made some of them with solid necks for playing slack-key instead of slide - there were a number of different models.
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Then I have one of the Robert Johnson Gibsons, which is great to play with slide because you get that tone!
stop
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Flopping Central banks from round the world were drafted in yesterday to stop the pound's slide .
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Digestion was stopped by incubating the slides with 0.2% glycine in water for 30 seconds.
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It gave United a point and stopped the slide .
use
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If you're going to use slides , see that the room can be darkened easily - and check your sightlines.
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Show them the board and the metal tray and explain that they will be used as slides . 4.
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Then Mr Cooksley uses the slides as a reference while he paints.
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George often uses slides showing complex shapes.
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The mind boggles at the complexity of a system using twelve slide projectors producing 4,000 pictures during the 2¼ hour performance.
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Other studies have used a series of slides making up the story instead of a film.
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This may be also true of studies which have used a series of slides as the arousing stimuli rather than a single one.
watch
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While watching the slides subjects wrote down the most distinctive feature of each slide.
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He watched her slide money under a plate of glass.
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He stood there under his umbrella, watching the rain slide off it in small, fine drops.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a slide show
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Don't go down the slide head first.
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School administrators were unable to explain the slide in student performance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A monitoring system that closes the road by activating a red signal light when a slide occurs is also in place.
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More than 200 people were in the area at the time of the slide , officials said.
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There are also some 10,000 air photographs and slides.
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Visitors entering the park from the Highway 140-Mariposa entrance station can see evidence of past slides.
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Work on display includes life-sized Elizabethan figures, a mural and an exhibit featuring the projection of slides on to specially made screens.