different between inch vs slide

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Etymology 1

From Middle English ynche, enche, from Old English ynce, borrowed from Latin uncia (“twelfth part”). Doublet of ounce.

Noun

inch (plural inches)

1. A unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot, or exactly 2.54 centimetres.
2. (meteorology) The amount of water which would cover a surface to the depth of an inch, used as a measurement of rainfall.
3. The amount of an alcoholic beverage which would fill a glass or bottle to the depth of an inch.
4. (figuratively) A very short distance.

   "Don't move an inch!"

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (inchi)
• ? Korean: ?? (inchi)

Translations

Verb

inch (third-person singular simple present inches, present participle inching, simple past and past participle inched)

1. (intransitive, followed by a preposition) To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).

   Fearful of falling, he inched along the window ledge.

   • 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey:

     The window blind had been lowered — Zooey had done all his bathtub reading by the light from the three-bulb overhead fixture—but a fraction of morning light inched under the blind and onto the title page of the manuscript.
2. To drive by inches, or small degrees.
   • 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy

     He gets too far into the soldier's grace / And inches out my master.

3. To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• thou
• mil

Etymology 2

From Scottish Gaelic innis

Noun

inch (plural inches)

1. (Scotland) A small island

Usage notes

• Found especially in the names of small Scottish islands, e.g. Inchcolm, Inchkeith.

Anagrams

• Ch'in, Chin, chin, ichn-

Middle English

Noun

inch

1. Alternative form of ynche

English

Etymology

From Middle English sliden, from Old English sl?dan (“to slide”), from Proto-Germanic *sl?dan? (“to slide, glide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sléyd?-e-ti, from *sleyd?- (“slippery”). Cognate with Old High German sl?tan (“to slide”) (whence German schlittern), Middle Low German sl?den (“to slide”), Middle Dutch sl?den (“to slide”) (whence Dutch slijderen, frequentative of now obsolete slijden), Vedic Sanskrit ??????? (srédhati, “to err, blunder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sla?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Verb

slide (third-person singular simple present slides, present participle sliding, simple past slid, past participle slid or (archaic) slidden)

1. (ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface

2. (intransitive) To move on a low-friction surface.
   • c. 1685, Edmund Waller, Of the Invasion and Defeat of the Turks

     They bathe in summer, and in winter slide.

3. (intransitive, baseball) To drop down and skid into a base.

4. (intransitive) To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.

5. (transitive) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.

6. (intransitive, obsolete) To pass inadvertently.
7. (intransitive) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.
   • 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy

     Ages shall slide away without perceiving.
8. (music) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cessation of sound.
9. (regional) To ride down snowy hills upon a toboggan or similar object for recreation.

   Synonyms: toboggan, sled

Derived terms

• aslide
• let slide

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (suraido)

Translations

Noun

slide (plural slides)

1. An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.

2. A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
3. The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.

4. An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down.
5. A mechanism consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.
6. The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.
7. A lever that can be moved in two directions.
8. A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.
9. (photography) A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.
10. (by extension, computing) A page of a computer presentation package such as PowerPoint.

11. (sciences) A flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope Generally referred to as a microscope slide.
12. (baseball) The act of dropping down and skidding into a base
13. (music, guitar) A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.
14. (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.
15. (geology) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.

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16. (music) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
17. (phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
18. A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.
19. (clothing) A shoe that is backless and open-toed.
20. (speech therapy) A voluntary stutter used as a technique to control stuttering in one's speech.
21. (vulgar slang) a promiscuous woman, slut

Synonyms

• (item of play equipment): slippery dip
• (inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity): chute
• (mechanism of a part which slides on or against a guide): runner

Hyponyms

• helter-skelter

Derived terms

• (transparent plate bearing an image): slide projector, slide viewer

Descendants

• ? Czech: slajd
• ? Japanese: ???? (suraido)
• ? Portuguese: slide

Translations

Anagrams

• Diels, Seidl, delis, idles, isled, leids, sidle, siled, sleid

Danish

Etymology

from Old Norse slíta, from Proto-Germanic *sl?tan?, cognate with Swedish slita, English slit, German schleißen, Dutch slijten,

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sli?ð?]

Verb

slide (imperative slid, infinitive at slide, present tense slider, past tense sled, perfect tense har slidt)

1. labour; work hard
2. chafe

Inflection

Middle English

Verb

slide

1. Alternative form of sliden

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English slide.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /iz.?laj.d??i/, /?slajd??/, /?zlajd??/, /?slajd/

Noun

slide m (plural slides)

1. slide (transparent image for projecting)

   Synonyms: transparência, diapositivo

2. slide (a frame in a slideshow)
3. (music) slide (device for playing slide guitar)
4. (music) slide (guitar technique where the player moves finger up or down the fretboard)