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Antonyms for sliding

Grammar : Verb
Spell : slahy-ding
Phonetic Transcription : ˈslaɪ dɪŋ

Definition of sliding

Origin :
  • Old English slidan (intransitive, past tense slad, past participle sliden) "to glide, slip, fall, fall down;" figuratively "fail, lapse morally, err; be transitory or unstable," from Proto-Germanic *slidan "to slip, slide" (cf. Old High German slito, German Schlitten "sleigh, sled"), from PIE root *sleidh- "to slide, slip" (cf. Lithuanian slystu "to glide, slide," Old Church Slavonic sledu "track," Greek olisthos "slipperiness," olisthanein "to slip," Middle Irish sloet "slide").
  • Meaning "slip, lose one's footing" is from early 13c. Transitive sense from 1530s. Phrase let (something) slide "let it take its own course" is in Chaucer (late 14c.). Sliding scale in reference to payments, etc., is from 1842.
  • verb move smoothly; move down
Example sentences :
  • A soft, sliding hillock of sand lay directly in front of them.
  • Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle
  • Wally and Jack were sliding their chairs back from the table preparing to follow him.
  • Extract from : « Good Indian » by B. M. Bower
  • I have been sliding off and clambering on ever since I bade goodbye to Havant.
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • White Fang, sliding by in quest of meat, stopped and began to eat the chips.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
  • Its nose was to the trail, and it trotted with a peculiar, sliding, effortless gait.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
  • These were penetrated with sliding shutters, which stood open.
  • Extract from : « The Cruise of the Dry Dock » by T. S. Stribling
  • Royalties were to be paid on a sliding scale, and, from the very first, they were large.
  • Extract from : « Cap'n Warren's Wards » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • The German was sliding down the bank into the water as he spoke.
  • Extract from : « A Yankee Flier Over Berlin » by Al Avery
  • The cut should be made with a sliding movement of the knife.
  • Extract from : « Manual of American Grape-Growing » by U. P. Hedrick
  • "Just a minute," he added, striving to keep his voice from sliding the scale.
  • Extract from : « Garrison's Finish » by W. B. M. Ferguson

Synonyms for sliding

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