Word Meanings - SLIDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. That slides or slips; gliding; moving smoothly. 2. Slippery; elusory. That sliding science hath me made so bare. Chaucer. Sliding friction , the resistance one body meets with in sliding along the surface of another, as distinguished

Additional info about word: SLIDING

1. That slides or slips; gliding; moving smoothly. 2. Slippery; elusory. That sliding science hath me made so bare. Chaucer. Sliding friction , the resistance one body meets with in sliding along the surface of another, as distinguished from rolling friction. -- Sliding gunter , a topmast arranged with metallic fittings so as to be hoisted and lowered by means of halyards. -- Sliding keel , a movable keel, similar to a centeboard. -- Sliding pair. See the Note under Pair, n., 7. -- Sliding rule. Same as Slide rule, under Slide, n. -- Sliding scale. A scale for raising or lowering imposts in proportion to the fall or rise of prices. A variable scale of wages or of prices. A slide rule. -- Sliding ways , the timber guides used in launching a vessel.

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• MOVER
  1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place. 2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor. 3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. These
• MOVELESS
  Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• ALONGSIDE
  Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.
• MOVABLE
  1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable
• GLIDING MACHINE
  A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
• MOVE
  To transfer from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king. 3. To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence. Minds desirous of
• SLIPSHOD
  1. Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel. The shivering urchin bending as he goes, With slipshod heels. Cowper. 2. Figuratively: Careless in dress, manners, style, etc.; slovenly; shuffling; as, slipshod manners; a slipshod or loose style
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• MOVIE
  A moving picture or a moving picture show; -- commonly used in pl.
• ELUSORY
  Tending to elude or deceive; evasive; fraudulent; fallacious; deceitful; deceptive. -- E*lu"so*ri*ness, n.
• DISTINGUISH
  di- = dis- + stinguere to quench, extinguish; prob. orig., to prick, and so akin to G. stechen, E. stick, and perh. sting. Cf. 1. Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark
• SLIPSKIN
  Evasive. Milton.
• GLIDDEN
  p. p. of Glide. Chaucer.
• DISTINGUISHABLE
  1. Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas.
• MOVING PICTURE
  A series of pictures, usually photographs taken with a special machine, presented to the eye in very rapid succession, with some or all of the objects in the picture represented in slightly changed positions, producing, by persistence of vision,
• SLIDE
  To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound. 7. To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence. With good hope let he sorrow slide. Chaucer. With a calm carelessness letting everything slide. Sir P. Sidney.
• DISTINGUISHMENT
  Observation of difference; distinction. Graunt.
• SURFACE TENSION
  That property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to bring the contained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• ENMOVE
  See EMMOVE
• PROMOVE
  To move forward; to advance; to promote. Bp. Fell.
• IRREMOVABLE
  Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.
• BACKSLIDING
  Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.
• KALONG
  A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis).
• PRESCIENCE
  Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.
• INDISTINGUISHING
  Making no difference; indiscriminative; impartial; as, indistinguishing liberalities. Johnson.
• THERMOVOLTAIC
  Of or relating to heat and electricity; especially, relating to thermal effects produced by voltaic action. Faraday.