Flit vs Slide - What's the difference?
flit | slide |
A fluttering or darting movement.
(physics) A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state.
(slang) A homosexual.
To move about rapidly and nimbly.
* Tennyson
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
To move quickly from one location to another.
* Hooker
(physics) To unpredictably change state for short periods of time.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) To move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts).
* 1855 , , page 199 (ISBN 0679405518)
To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
* Dryden
(poetic, obsolete) Fast, nimble.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iv:
(ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface
To move on a low-friction surface.
* (rfdate), Waller:
(baseball) To drop down and skid into a base.
To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.
(obsolete) To pass inadvertently.
* Bible, Eccles. xxviii. 26
To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.
* (rfdate), Dryden:
* (rfdate), Alexander Pope:
(music) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cessation of sound.
To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
* (rfdate), Chaucer:
* (rfdate), Philip Sidney:
An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.
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.
A mechanism consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.
The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.
* Francis Bacon
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A lever that can be moved in two directions.
A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.
A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.
(baseball) The act of dropping down and skidding into a base
(sciences) A flat, rectangular piece of glass on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope.
(music, guitar) A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.
A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.
(geology) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
(music) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
(phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.
As nouns the difference between flit and slide
is that flit is a fluttering or darting movement while slide is an item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.As verbs the difference between flit and slide
is that flit is to move about rapidly and nimbly while slide is (ergative) to (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.As an adjective flit
is (poetic|obsolete) fast, nimble.flit
English
Noun
(en noun)- My computer just had a flit .
Verb
- A shadow flits before me.
- There were many apes with faces similar to his own, and further over in the book he found, under "M," some little monkeys such as he saw daily flitting through the trees of his primeval forest. But nowhere was pictured any of his own people; in all the book was none that resembled Kerchak, or Tublat, or Kala.
- It became a received opinion, that the souls of men, departing this life, did flit out of one body into some other.
- My blender flits because the power cord is damaged.
- (Wright)
- (Jamieson)
- After this manner did the late Warden of Barchester Hospital accomplish his flitting , and change his residence.
- the free soul to flitting air resigned
Adjective
(en adjective)- And in his hand two darts exceeding flit , / And deadly sharpe he held [...].
Anagrams
* ----slide
English
Verb
- He slid the boat across the grass.
- The safe slid slowly.
- Snow slides down the side of a mountain.
- The car slid on the ice.
- They bathe in summer, and in winter slide .
- Jones slid into second.
- He slid while going around the corner.
- to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question
- Beware thou slide not by it.
- A ship or boat slides through the water.
- Ages shall slide away without perceiving.
- Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
- With good hope let he sorrow slide .
- With a calm carelessness letting everything slide .
Derived terms
* let slideNoun
(en noun)- The long, red slide was great fun for the kids.
- (Charles Dickens)
- The slide closed the highway.
- a slide on the ice
- A better slide into their business.
- (Dana)