Sliding: alternatives and connections

An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces…

Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.

the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it; "his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill"; "…

A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece run…

Any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides backward and forward upon another part.

The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the lik…

To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be ut…

That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb); gliding along smoothly; copious.

The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction.

In a gliding manner.

A gliding effect; gliding.

The locus described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotat…

A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let f…

A gliding in; an immisson or entrance of one thing into another; also, a sudden descent or attack.

Slipping; sliding; gliding.

Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over.

The land which slips down.

A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial…