SLIDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sliding mean? 

• SLIDING (adjective)
  The adjective SLIDING has 1 sense:

1. being a smooth continuous motion

  Familiarity information: SLIDING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLIDING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being a smooth continuous motion

Similar:

slippery; slippy (causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide)

 Context examples 

The Drosophila NURF complex catalyzes nucleosome sliding.

(NURF, NCI Thesaurus)

Professor Challenger drew off the top of the case, which formed a sliding lid.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He passed, and I went on; a few steps, and I turned: a sliding sound and an exclamation of "What the deuce is to do now?" and a clattering tumble, arrested my attention.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Nerves fit for sliding panels and tapestry?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Then the three writhed together in a swaying tangle, struggling, sliding, and falling into the arms of their mates on the crosstrees.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the right bell-pull.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As the glacier thins and loses mass, both sliding and creeping become more difficult, and the glacier's flow slows as a result.

(NASA Finds Asian Glaciers Slowed by Ice Loss, NASA)

He dived his arm down to the bottom of the chest, and brought up a small wooden box with a sliding lid, such as children’s toys are kept in.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The turbulence caused by the boat sliding through the water excites the plankton to emit light, which reveals the existence of the the turbulent regions in the underlying dark water.

(ALMA Finds Huge Hidden Reservoirs of Turbulent Gas in Distant Galaxies, ESO)

“But really and truly, you know. Are you?” growled Mr. Barkis, sliding nearer to her on the seat, and nudging her with his elbow.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)