Crossword clues for sliding
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sliding \Slid"ing\, a.
That slides or slips; gliding; moving smoothly.
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Slippery; elusory. [Obs.] That sliding science hath me made so bare. --Chaucer. Sliding friction (Mech.), the resistance one body meets with in sliding along the surface of another, as distinguished from rolling friction. Sliding gunter (Naut.), a topmast arranged with metallic fittings so as to be hoisted and lowered by means of halyards. Sliding keel (Naut), a movable keel, similar to a centeboard. Sliding pair. (Mech.) 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.
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A slide rule.
Sliding ways (Naut.), the timber guides used in launching a vessel.
Wiktionary
Of something that can slide n. The motion of something that slides. v
(present participle of slide English)
WordNet
adj. being a smooth continuous motion
Wikipedia
Sliding may refer to:
- Sliding (dance), also floating or gliding, a group of footwork-oriented dance techniques
- Slide (baseball), an attempt by a baseball runner to avoid getting tagged out
- Slide (disambiguation)
Sliding is a type of frictional motion between two surfaces in contact. This can be contrasted to rolling motion. Both types of motion may occur in bearings.
The relative motion or tendency toward such motion between two surfaces is resisted by friction. Friction may damage or ' wear' the surfaces in contact. However, wear can be reduced by lubrication. The science and technology of friction, lubrication, and wear is known as tribology
Sliding may occur between two objects of arbitrary shape, whereas rolling friction is the frictional force associated with the rotational movement of a somewhat disclike or other circular object along a surface. Generally the frictional force of rolling friction is less than that associated with sliding kinetic friction. Typical values for the coefficient of rolling friction are less than that of sliding friction. Correspondingly sliding friction typically produces greater sound and thermal bi-products. One of the most common examples of sliding friction is the movement of braking motor vehicle tires on a roadway, a process which generates considerable heat and sound, and is typically taken into account in assessing the magnitude of roadway noise pollution.
Usage examples of "sliding".
The closet, which adjoins my chamber at La Vallee, has a sliding board in the floor.
Sliding his arm into each of the three spaces, Alec pressed and tapped with no success.
By the time she stepped onto dirt he was sliding swiftly alongshore, heading for a small knot of hooded and robed Funor about halfway back to the rivermouth.
The arm on which she had rubbed the ambergris was sliding free, for the fabric did not adhere to it.
When I was living with Dad on Westchester Lagoon in Anchorage they used to come sliding in on the lagoon before the ice melted.
We went into my sitting room, which was on the front of the house, and we had a good view of my bedroom through the open sliding double doors, and there was my enormous and regal bed, the baldachin padded in red satin, and the matching red chairs, thick and inviting, scattered from bedroom to sitting room, and between the front windows of the sitting room, my computer and desk.
I had him into the room, and began my discourse by sliding a piece of gold into his hand.
His whole body now formed a seal with the Blimp and he no longer worried much about sliding off.
Wells clutched the side of the stretcher to keep it from sliding as the powerful machine boomed into the sky, already swinging toward the emergency room at the base hospital.
For myself--I was one of the tenants--I would far prefer living in a workhouse to inhabiting those low-pitched oak-panelled rooms, and I would sooner look from my garret windows on to the squalor and grime of Whitechapel than from the diamond-shaped and leaded panes of the Manor of Trevor Major on to the boskage of its cool thickets, and the glimmering of its clear chalk streams where the quick trout glance among the waving water-weeds and over the chalk and gravel of its sliding rapids.
All the while she talking, and me mesmerized by she serious brown eyes, and too much to feel and think about at once, I never realise she did sliding she hand down inside my blouse, down until she fingers and thumb slide round one of my bubbies and feel the weight of it.
But sliding down the ropes like baleful comets, the two Canallers rushed into the uproar, and sought to drag their man out of it towards the forecastle.
He yelled for Sarah to stay down and then he took one, two, three steps and dove forward, sliding down the slick hard tiles as Chulo came around the end of the open door.
I have been sliding off and clambering on ever since I bade goodbye to Havant.
She was tossed back into the tube, went sliding and bouncing and falling back into the water, its iciness biting at her in those few places where the ooglith cloaker was not properly shielding her.