slide
- noun
- /slaɪd/
- In our presentation, the last slide highlighted the key findings clearly.
- PowerPoint slides
- a slide presentation
- a slide show
Let's look at your first slide or your first hand out.
- Let's look at your first slide or your first hand out.
- So let's look at some slides and some of your handouts.
- Trying to edit my own slides, trying to edit my book.
- So let me go to this slide, this one here.
- They're in Biogen slides as well as FDA documents.
- I was in disbelief as he went slide by slide critiquing my dishes.
- Let's put up this slide of what he's trying to do.
Examples
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This is a very famous slide by Ray Kurzweil.
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And I think this this slide shows what's going on here.
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So that is our final slide from from this week's class.
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This is the next slide and these are beautiful things.
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The next slide that I have is of...
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Try to keep the comments over each slide to about nine or ten seconds.
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OK, for the last slide, we do have a voice prompt.
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And I think this is the summary slide heading both ways.
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And finally, on the final slide, some tips for engaging with us.
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Finally, after what seems like hours, a slide of the painting flashes on the screen.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
A small glass picture in a frame that you show on a screen with a projector
Idioms
Lose earlier progress quickly and go back to a worse situation
Compounds
- Archaic
A long thin tool with sliding scales that people use to do quick math before calculators
- Specialized
A small flat piece of glass that holds a thin sample for a microscope
- Specialized
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
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Slide for a picture or page in a presentation comes from small photographic frames that you would 'slide' into a projector, so each image became known as a 'slide'. That's why we still call one page of a presentation a slide.