Decrease and Slide

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

noun

• A small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study.
  • synonyms: microscope slide
• Geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.. (
• Music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale. (
  • usage: "the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides"
  • synonyms: swoop
• Plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide.
  • synonyms: playground slide, sliding board
• The act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it.
  • usage: "his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill"; "the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope"
  • synonyms: glide, coast
• A transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector.
  • synonyms: lantern slide
• Sloping channel through which things can descend.
  • synonyms: chute, slideway, sloping trough

verb

• Move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner.
  • usage: "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk"
  • synonyms: skid, slip, slue, slew
• To pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly.
  • usage: "They slid through the wicket in the big gate"
  • synonyms: slither
• Move smoothly along a surface.
  • usage: "He slid the money over to the other gambler"

• (n.) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
• (n.) The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice.
• (n.) An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountain side for conveying logs by sliding them down.
• (n.) Same as Guide bar, under Guide.
• (n.) The descent of a mass of earth, rock or snow down a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide.
• (n.) A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it.
• (v.t.) Especially, to move over snow or ice with a smooth, uninterrupted motion, as on a sled moving by the force of gravity or on the feet.
• (n.) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
• (v.t.) To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
• (n.) A clasp or brooch for a belt or the like.
• (n.) Smooth, even passage or progress.
• (v.t.) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.
• (n.) A moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides.
• (n.) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.
• (v.t.) To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another.
• (n.) A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope.
• (v.t.) To pass inadvertently.
• (n.) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
• (v.t.) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.
• (v.t.) To move along the surface of any body by slipping or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.
• (n.) A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement.
• (v.t.) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat slides through the water.
• (n.) That which operates by sliding.
• (n.) That on which anything moves by sliding.
• (v.t.) To slip when walking or standing; to fall.
• (n.) A slide valve.