See Also: sliding(dictionary)
sliding(medicine)
Sliding - Skiing(gambling)
sliding door(dictionary)
Sliding Scale(health)
sliding hook(medicine)
sliding scale(dictionary)
sliding hernia(medicine)
sliding flap(medicine)
C sliding osteotomy(medicine)

sliding (iou)



sliding ppl adjective. OE.
[from SLIDE verb + -ING2.]
That slides; that moves or operates by sliding; gliding, flowing; fig. (arch.) fleeting, inconstant. OE.
b. Of a knot: made so as to slip along a cord, running. L16.
c. Of a door, panel, etc.: that is opened or shut by sliding. E18.
Slippery; steeply sloping. rare. ME.
Accompanied by a sliding movement. L18.
Special collocations: sliding contact a connection in an electric circuit that can be slid along a length of resistance wire. sliding hernia (Medicine) a hernia of an organ which is normally partly outside the peritoneum. sliding keel a centreboard. sliding rule (now rare) a slide-rule. sliding scale (a) a slide-rule; (b) a scale of fees, taxes, wages, etc., that varies as a whole in accordance with variation in some standard. sliding seat a seat in an outrigger which moves backwards and forwards with the action of the rower.
slidingly adverb M17.