SLIDE BY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slide by mean? 

• SLIDE BY (verb)
  The verb SLIDE BY has 1 sense:

1. pass by

  Familiarity information: SLIDE BY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLIDE BY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pass by

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

elapse; glide by; go along; go by; lapse; pass; slide by; slip away; slip by

Context example:

three years elapsed

Hypernyms (to "slide by" is one way to...):

advance; go on; march on; move on; pass on; progress (move forward, also in the metaphorical sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "slide by"):

fell; fly; vanish (pass away rapidly)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

 Context examples 

After review of the reference slide by a pathologist, tissues are robotically dissected in large groups.

(Laser Cryo Enrichment, NCI Thesaurus)