Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In machinery, broadly, any guideway upon or in which a sliding piece moves, and by which the direction of its motion is determined.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A way along which something slides.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any form of
track along which things canslide
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun sloping channel through which things can descend
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Examples
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As the pickup began to move along the slideway with her, the man on the right closed a switch, placed his hand on a plunger.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Undercurrents 1 - James H. Schmitz Blue Tyson 2008
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Psi blocks were all about, sensed as a gradually shifting pattern of barriers to probes as the slideway moved on with her.
The Complete Federation Of The Hub Schmitz, James H. 2000
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She stepped off the slideway as it came up to the window fronts, walked over, started along the gleaming windows, then stopped, looking in at the displayed merchandise.
The Complete Federation Of The Hub Schmitz, James H. 2000
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Directed by Gudast, she took a seat on a slideway, let it carry her along a main street.
The Complete Federation Of The Hub Schmitz, James H. 2000
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As the pickup began to move along the slideway with her, the man on the right closed a switch, placed his hand on a plunger.
The Complete Federation Of The Hub Schmitz, James H. 2000
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The Democratic Party remained opposed to yet another adjustment of the amnesty cut-off date for the same reason as its original opposition to the shift from October 1990 to the present date - namely that "you create a slideway in which you lose your moral footing".
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We took a moving slideway toward the Palace of Technology, drifting through the early evening like quiet ghosts among the laughing Faffnirians.
Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992
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Arriving at the pickup point early, she honked the horn and kept on honking until Peter finally appeared and descended from a high embankment on a slideway of fractured sandstone.
From This Beloved Hour Lambert, Willa 1982
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Psi blocks were all about, sensed as a gradually shifting pattern of barriers to probes as the slideway moved on with her.
The Lion Game Schmitz, James 1976
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Directed by Gudast, she took a seat on a slideway, let it carry her along a main street.
The Lion Game Schmitz, James 1976
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