slide-
the verbal stem or the n. in combs. (sometimes not hyphened): a. With names of apparatus, implements, parts of machines, etc., characterized by a sliding action, as slide-bar, slide-block, slide-bolt, slide-car, slide cornet, slide trombone, slide trumpet, slide whistle, etc. slide fastener chiefly U.S., a zip-fastener; slide-wire Electr., a resistance wire along which a contact slides in a Wheatstone bridge or similar device.
For technical descriptions of some of these, and of two or three others, see Knight Dict. Mech.
| c 1886 Kipling Railway Folk 63 A *slide bar about red hot. |
| 1869 Rankine Machine & Hand-tools Pl. F 9, An inclined groove is formed in the tup, in which a *slide block is fitted. |
| 1841 Browning Pippa Passes 225 Push the lattice..; of course The *slide-bolt catches. |
| 1763 Museum Rust. I. 94 These loads are carried in baskets fixed on *slide-cars. 1861–2 Ulster Jrnl. Archæol. IX. 145 Some time after..what were called slide-cars were used, that is, carts without wheels. |
| 1844 H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 291 The *slide-clutch, with a slide-rib, being now placed on the shaft. |
| 1926 Whiteman & McBride Jazz ix. 206 The jazz band has introduced some little known instruments such as..the *slide cornet and the czimbalon. 1946 Mezzrow & Wolfe Really Blues (1957) i. 12 He showed up in the band room with a slide cornet. |
| 1853 Ure Dict. Arts I. 228, g is the charcoal-meter, with a *slide door. 1879 Stevenson Ess. Trav., Amateur Emigrant (1905) 23 Through the open slide-door we had a glimpse of a grey night sea. |
| 1875 Martin Winding Mach. 84 It is of very great importance not to multiply..such things as slide-valves and *slide-faces. |
| 1934 Newsweek 21 July 29/2 The Prince of Wales uses a *slide fastener on his trousers. 1944 Sun (Baltimore) 16 Sept. 7/4 The B. F. Goodrich Company announced today development of a ‘zipped lip’ construction that makes a metal slide fastener watertight and airtight. 1971 N. Marsh Tied up in Tinsel vi. 135 ‘Let's have a look at the robe.’.. A slide fastener ran right down the back. |
| 1844 H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 293 A *slide-frame in which two leading pulleys, mounted in a case, are fitted to slide in the vertical direction. |
| 1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl. vi. 106 The draught is regulated commonly by *slide-gates, but various methods may be employed. |
| 1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 241 [The] *Slide Guage..[is] a measuring instrument consisting of one fixed and one sliding jaw. |
| 1869 Rankine Machinery & Millwork 571 In this machine the tool-holder..slides vertically in a guiding groove in the *slide-head. |
| 1881 Raymond Mining Gloss., *Slide-joint, a connection acting in rod-boring, like the jars in rope-boring. |
| 1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Rec. Ser. iv. 239/2 There are two kinds of plough in use..termed respectively ‘bolt knife’ and ‘*slide knife’. |
| 1833 Holland Manuf. Metal II. 142 An ingenious contrivance, known as the *slide-lathe. 1846 Holtzapffel Turning II. 528 The slide-lathe, and..the planing-machine and many other most invaluable tools. |
| 1791 Selby Bridge Act 34 The *slide leaf or leaves of the said bridge. |
| 1846 Holtzapffel Turning II. 634 The back-stay is fixed to the *slide plate. 1844 *Slide-rib [see slide-clutch]. |
| 1825 J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 446, h, the *slide rod, on which the knife f is fixed. 1876 Preece & Sivewright Telegraphy 172 The slide rod being removed, the iron pole is fixed in its place. |
| 1846 Holtzapffel Turning II. 633 The nut of the *slide screw..is made with two tails. |
| 1825 J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 324 For turning faces of wheels, hollow work, &c. where great accuracy is wanted, Mr. Maudslay has contrived a curious apparatus, which he calls a *slide-tool. |
| 1891 C. R. Day Descr. Catal. Musical Instruments, R. Military Exhib. x. 180 *Slide trombone... In this instrument, as should always be the case, the taper of the bell is carried right through the tuning slides. 1934 Hound & Horn July–Sept. 595 The harpsichord seems a very complicated instrument to compare alongside the single-noted valve trumpet, or a slide trombone. 1977 ‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon xiii. 269 How we could brighten our Church Fêtes up, short of breaking all the Ten Commandments simultaneously to a fanfare of slide-trombones. |
| 1885 G. B. Shaw in Mag. of Music II. 112/1 These *slide trumpets are not the instruments Bach wrote for. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 594/1 The slide trumpet is mentioned by T. E. Altenburg [1795], who compares it, and with reason, to the alto trombone. Ibid., The slide trumpet is still used in England in a somewhat modified form. |
| 1939 Sears, Roebuck Catal. Fall–Winter 914/3 *Slide whistle. Professional model... Has full chromatic scale of two octaves. 1976 Gramophone Feb. 1355/2 The flight grows slower to reveal gentle tones of slide-whistles, zither and harp. |
| 1885 J. Dredge Electric Illumination II. i. 53 The *Slide-Wire, or Metre Bridge..is a modification of the bridge due to Kirchoff, and is especially useful for the measurement of low resistances. 1922 Glazebrook Dict. Appl. Physics II. 714/2 The first bridge to employ a slide wire was devised by Fleeming Jenkin in 1862 and was used to intercompare the standard coils made for the British Association Committee on Electrical Standards. 1964 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. II. 359 The depth element is a Bourdon tube coupled to a slide-wire potentiometer. 1969 A. Brodgesell in B. G. Lipták Instrument Engineers' Handbk. I. ix. 942 Potentiometric displacement sensors consist of a slide wire and wiper. The slide wire is powered by a constant voltage representing full scale travel. |
b. Denoting something along which objects may slide or be slid, as
slide-ladder,
slide-way.
| 1793 Smeaton Edystone L. §226 The slide-ladder, which was very strongly lashed down to eye-bolts. 1825 J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 12 The slide-ladder used by brewers in loading and unloading their carts. 1856 Olmsted Slave States 550 The boat came to the shore at the foot of a plank slide-way. 1883 Scotsman 11 July 5/2 The ways were new, and made of oak and pine, with guide-battens on the inner edges of the slideways. |
c. Misc., as
slide-blowing adj.;
slide carrier,
slide-centerer,
slide changer,
slide-coupler,
slide-maker,
slide projector;
slide-movement,
slide-principle,
slide show,
slide viewer;
slide-in adj.;
slide area U.S., an area in which landslips or avalanches are likely to happen;
slide-back Electronics, the alteration of the grid bias of a thermionic valve which is necessary to restore the anode current to zero after the application of a signal voltage to the grid; apparatus to measure this alteration,
freq. as an indirect measure of the signal voltage; also
slide-back voltmeter;
slide guitar, a style of guitar-playing characterized by a glissando effect produced by moving an object along the strings; a guitar used for this;
slide-rock, talus rock;
slide-tape attrib. phr., involving photographic slides shown in a predetermined sequence to the accompaniment of a synchronized commentary recorded on magnetic tape.
In most of these
slide- represents the
n. in senses 5 and 7.
| 1959 Sunday Times 7 June 16/6 The ‘*slide area’ itself is that part of the Californian coast which is physically slipping, dropping and sliding towards the sea. 1970 Wall St. Jrnl. (Eastern ed.) 19 May 1/4 The Kildares live in what is euphemistically called here a ‘slide area’. |
| 1925 Year-bk. Wireless Telegr. 847 When a control room is some distance from the transmitter it is usual to install a valve voltmeter with a *slideback which either measures the voltage across the output of the main amplifier or indicates when a certain voltage is exceeded. 1931 B.B.C. Year-bk. 1932 356 The ‘slide-back’..consisted of a valve or similar device so biassed that no indication occurred until there was present and superimposed upon the bias a voltage greater than, and opposing in phase, the biassing voltage. 1938 H. A. Brown Radio-Frequency Electr. Measurements (ed. 2) vi. 279 Peak, or slide-back, voltmeters are coming more and more into use. 1948 A. L. Albert Radio Fundamentals ix. 354 There is an error involved with this slide-back voltmeter, but with large signals..the error is small. 1965 Wireless World July 19 (Advt.), Slide-back measurement of time and amplitude by means of directly-calibrated shift controls. |
| 1890 Bauerman Metallurgy Iron 178 The so-called *slide-blowing engines, where the flap valves are replaced by a slide similar to that used in steam engines. |
| 1953 A. Pearlman Rollei Manual xxiii. 357 Sticky exudations may foul the *slide carrier of the projector. 1971 Sci. Amer. Sept. 224/2 An adequate beam can be formed by making a pinhole aperture in the slide carrier of a 35-millimeter projector. |
| 1895 G. E. Davis Pract. Micros. (ed. 3) 376 In mounting objects, a *slide-centerer should be employed. |
| 1959 IRE Trans. Mil. Electronics III. 97/1 Like a projection *slide changer, we can observe one slide while discarding the slide already observed and replacing it with a new one. 1962 Which? Mar. 69/1 We did not test fully automatic projectors, but 6 had semi-automatic slide changers built in. |
| 1881 C. A. Edwards Organs 109 In this instrument is an arrangement called the ‘*Slide Coupler’. |
| 1968 P. Oliver Screening Blues i. 35 Another..version was recorded in 1937 by Black Ace (B. K. Turner) who accompanied himself with brilliant *slide guitar playing. 1969 Rolling Stone 22 Apr. 16/5 W. C. Handy first heard the blues and a slide guitar in 1903 when he happened upon an itinerant black musician in..Mississippi. 1976 Morecambe Guardian 7 Dec. 23/2 And inevitably those ubiquitous sessioners, Klaus Voorman (bass)..and Jesse Ed Davies (slide guitar), have played a major part. 1977 McKnight & Tobler Bob Marley ix. 111 The Wailers version is decorated by an ethereal slide guitar solo. 1987 Washington Post 1 Mar. f6/4 Olney also turns in some burning, bluesy slide guitar. |
| 1973 G. Davey Fun with Hi-Fi v. 35 The BSR MacDonald playing deck which I use has *slide-in facilities for fitting the cartridge of one's choice. 1977 Gramophone Apr. 1629/2 The head⁓shell has a slide-in cartridge carrier. |
| 1889 Anthony's Photogr. Bulletin II. 356, I would suggest to *slide-makers a more extended use for their work. |
| 1846 Holtzapffel Turning II. 471 The employment of the two, or the three *slide movements, to which method Mr. Nasmyth has judiciously applied the term ‘Slide Principle’. |
| 1846 *Slide principle [see slide movement above]. |
| 1956 E. S. Bomback Retina Manual xxi. 222 (caption) The Leitz Prado 150-watt *slide projector. 1979 P. Niesewand Member of Club ii. 17 Two slide projectors were being positioned... ‘Remember, when the lights go out, we'll be showing some slides.’ |
| 1901 Yearbk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 1900 195 In the mountains we often find the hillside slopes covered with broken rock of various sizes. This we call *slide rock. 1974 Flint & Skinner Physical Geol. vii. 121/2 Weathering converts the sliderock into fine-grained regolith which, with its pores of extremely small diameter, can hold much more moisture than sliderock and thus acquire both vegetation and soil. |
| 1956 E. S. Bomback Retina Manual xxi. 222 The color *slide show has quite a lot in common with the motion picture film. 1978 Peace News 25 Aug. 18/3 On their last visit to Britain four years ago they did a slide show and a question and answer session. |
| 1971 Publishers' Weekly 22 Mar. 20/2 The final part of the program..consisted of a *slide-tape commentary. 1977 J. Hedgecoe Photographer's Handbk. 305 Sound for slide-tape presentations can be prepared from studio recordings using a microphone direct. |
| 1960 Which? Oct. 228/2 *A slide viewer should give a good optical performance. |