slide
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- noun
- /slaɪd/
- Specialized
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portaobjetos
- Vessels were cut open and photographed; histological slides were prepared and stained with hematoxylin and eosin.
- microscope slide
- glass slide
- mounted slides
And then you just put a drop of it on your slide and put a glass slide over the top, and now look what it looks like.
- And then you just put a drop of it on your slide and put a glass slide over the top, and now look what it looks like.
Examples
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He has one of the finest collections of slides on birds in existence.
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The major problem in printing from slides is the increased contrast you get in the print.
Academic text (1995) -
And then you just put a drop of it on your slide and put a glass slide over the top, and now look what it looks like.
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So on this slide, you're seeing a queen Ant.
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I pulled up a slide here from the Atlas about Athens.
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You can see Snell's law on the handwritten slide over here.
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Second, each student's MSW contained slides from each video clip as well as practice problems.
Academic text (2015) -
The room is darkened, and Hammond is showing slides of various scenes all around them.
Fiction book (1993) -
I return to my microscope and gaze at a slide of an old severed spinal cord.
Fiction book (1998) -
The teacher placed a sample on the slide to show the students the cells under the microscope.
Synonyms
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A small flat piece of glass that holds a thin sample for a microscope
Idioms
Lose earlier progress quickly and go back to a worse situation
Compounds
- Archaic
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A long thin tool with sliding scales that people use to do quick math before calculators
- Specialized
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A small flat piece of glass that holds a thin sample for a microscope
- Specialized
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A set of two strips with teeth and a moving piece that closes jackets or bags
- Archaic
A small glass picture in a frame that you show on a screen with a projector
- Specialized
A part of a shotgun you move back and forth to eject and load shells for the next shot
A small portable tool with sliding parts for quick calculations or finding information
- Specialized
A device that controls the flow of a liquid or gas by sliding over an opening
Surface Forms
Etymology
Slide for a microscope is a thin glass plate for a specimen and is called a 'slide' because you can slide the glass into place under the lens. That name links the object to the verb 'to slide'.