Traipse vs Slide - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) To walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt.
* 1728 , Alexander Pope, The Dunciad , Book III, ll. 140-4:
(colloquial) To walk about, especially when expending much effort, or unnecessary effort.
* 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses :
(colloquial) To walk (a distance or journey) wearily or with effort; to walk about or over (a place).
* 1874 , Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd :
(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.
Traipse is a related term of slide.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between traipse and slide
is that traipse is (obsolete) to walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt while slide is (obsolete) to pass inadvertently.As verbs the difference between traipse and slide
is that traipse is (obsolete) to walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt while slide is (ergative) to (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.As nouns the difference between traipse and slide
is that traipse is a long or tiring walk while slide is an item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.traipse
English
Alternative forms
* trapesVerb
(en-verb)- Lo next two slipshod Muses traipse along, In lofty madness, meditating song, / With tresses staring from poetic dreams, / And never wash'd, but in Castalia’s streams [...].
- After traipsing about in the fog they found the grave sure enough.
- She only got handy the Union-house on Sunday morning 'a b'lieve, and 'tis supposed here and there that she had traipsed every step of the way from Melchester.
Synonyms
* (walk about) gad, travel, walk * cover, travel, traverseSynonyms
* (long or tiring walk) hike, trekAnagrams
*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)