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SLIDING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being a smooth continuous motion
Classified under:
Similar:
slippery; slippy (causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb slide
Context examples:
In the midst of these was a small black and white ivory box with a sliding lid.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
White Fang, sliding by in quest of meat, stopped and began to eat the chips.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Alleyne sprang to the rope, and sliding swiftly down, soon found himself at its extremity.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Chromatin remodeling machines, such as SWI/SNF complex, alter the structure of the pronucleosome in an ATP-dependent manner, and often cause nucleosome sliding.
(IFN-Beta Enhancer Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
The Ca2+ binding to troponinC thereby triggers the sliding of thin and thick filaments, that is, the activation of a crossbridge and subsequent cardiac force development and/or cell shortening.
(Cardiac Muscle Contraction Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
In prokaryotes, the leading strand replication apparatus consists of a DNA polymerase (pol III core), a sliding clamp (beta), and a clamp loader (gamma delta complex).
(DNA Replication Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
About the centre, and a good way behind the rest, Silver and I followed—I tethered by my rope, he ploughing, with deep pants, among the sliding gravel.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Her waist is small, and when she stand up, when she walk, or move her head or arm, it is—I do not know the word—but it is nice to look at, like—maybe I say she is built on lines like the lines of a good canoe, just like that, and when she move she is like the movement of the good canoe sliding through still water or leaping through water when it is white and fast and angry.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The supermassive black hole in the center of the quasar gobbles up an enormous amount of nearby materials, which glare and shine when they constitute an accretion disk before finally sliding down in the black hole, said Hongyan Zhou, faculty member at the University of Science and Technology of China about the universe’s brightest beacons; shining with magnitudes more luminosity than entire galaxies and the stars they contain.
(Astronomers Study How Quasars Are Powered by Accretion Disks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The HMGA/HMGI(Y)-like domain of Nurf301 facilitates nucleosome sliding.
(NURF, NCI Thesaurus)
