Slides
[slaɪd]
Examples
- Upright pieces of wood, _d h_, _e f_, at each end, are furnished with slides or clips to hold the drawings, which are reflected from the inclined mirrors, and seen in them by each eye separately. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In the trombone, valves are replaced by a section which slides in and out and shortens or lengthens the tube. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In the distance a slope sheered down from a peak, with many black rock-slides. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She wished the slides could all be broken. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Mlud, no--variety of points--feel it my duty tsubmit--ludship, is the reply that slides out of Mr. Tangle. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Each counter slides along the rod easily and on each rod there are six tamas or beads. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The Cole Company was interested in the sale of lanterns and slides and the foreign firm naturally turned to them for assistance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The quadrant, B, has cogs cut, between which Z slides and stops the motion of A, which is moved, as before, by clockwork. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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