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skid
(skĭd)n.
1. The action of sliding or slipping over a surface, often sideways.
2.
a. A plank, log, or timber, usually one of a pair, used as a support or as a track for sliding or rolling heavy objects.
b. A pallet for loading or handling goods, especially one having solid sideboards and no bottom.
c. One of several logs or timbers forming a skid road.
3. skids Nautical A wooden framework attached to the side of a ship to prevent damage, as when unloading.
4. A shoe or drag applying pressure to a wheel to brake a vehicle.
5. A runner in the landing gear of certain aircraft.
6. Informal
a. A period of sharp decline or repeated losses: Bad economic news sent the markets into a skid. The win ended the team's four-game skid.
b. skids A path to ruin or failure: His career hit the skids. Her life is now on the skids.
v. skid·ded, skid·ding, skids
v.intr.
1. To slide, especially roughly or heavily: The crate broke loose and skidded across the slanting deck.
2.
a. To slide sideways while moving because of loss of traction: The truck skidded on a patch of ice.
b. To slide from forward momentum, especially during an attempt to stop: braked hard and skidded to a stop. See Synonyms at slide.
3. To move sideways in a turn because of insufficient banking. Used of an airplane.
4. Informal To fall or decline sharply: "That news immediately sent bonds skidding to new lows" (Wall Street Journal).
v.tr.
1. To brake (a wheel) with a skid.
2. To haul on a skid or skids.
[Perhaps of Scandinavian origin.]
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skid
(skɪd)vb, skids, skidding or skidded
1. (Automotive Engineering) to cause (a vehicle) to slide sideways or (of a vehicle) to slide sideways while in motion, esp out of control
2. (intr) to slide without revolving, as the wheel of a moving vehicle after sudden braking
3. (tr) US and Canadian to put or haul on a skid, esp along a special track
4. (Aeronautics) to cause (an aircraft) to slide sideways away from the centre of a turn when insufficiently banked or (of an aircraft) to slide in this manner
n
5. an instance of sliding, esp sideways
6. (Forestry) chiefly US and Canadian one of the logs forming a skidway
7. (General Engineering) a support on which heavy objects may be stored and moved short distances by sliding
8. (Automotive Engineering) a shoe or drag used to apply pressure to the metal rim of a wheel to act as a brake
9. on the skids in decline or about to fail
[C17: perhaps of Scandinavian origin; compare ski]
ˈskiddy adj
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skid
(skɪd)n., v. skid•ded, skid•ding. n.
1. a plank, bar, log, or the like, esp. one of a pair, on which something heavy may be slid or rolled along.
2. a low mobile platform on which goods are placed for ease in handling, moving, etc.
3. a plank, log, low platform, etc., on or by which a load is supported.
4. a shoe or some other choke or drag for preventing the wheel of a vehicle from rotating, as when descending a hill.
5. an unexpected or uncontrollable slide on a smooth surface, esp. an oblique or wavering veer by a vehicle or its tires.
v.t. 6. to place on or slide along a skid.
7. to check the motion of with a skid: She skidded her skates to a stop.
8. to cause to go into a skid: to skid the car into a turn.
v.i. 9. to slide along without rotating, as a wheel to which a brake has been applied.
10. to slip or slide sideways, as an automobile in turning a corner rapidly.
11. to slide forward under the force of momentum after being braked, as a vehicle.
12. (of an airplane when not banked sufficiently) to slide sideways, away from the center of the curve described in turning. Compare slip 1 (def. 11).
13. to slip or slide; lose traction: feet skidding on icy pavement.
14. to falter or fail; decline.
Idioms: the skids, the downward path to ruin, failure, depravity, etc.
[1600–10; appar. ultimately < Old Norse skīth; see ski]
skid′ding•ly, adv.
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slide
– skid1. 'slide'
When something slides, it moves smoothly over a surface.
Tears were sliding down his cheeks.
The past tense and past participle of slide is slid, not 'slided'.
The gate slid open at the push of a button.
2. 'skid'
You do not use 'slide' to describe the movement of a vehicle when its wheels move sideways on a wet or icy road. The word you use is skid.
The car moved forward, skidding on the loose snow.
We skidded into the ditch.
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skid
Past participle: skidded
Gerund: skidding
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| Noun | 1. |  skid - one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects |
| 2. |  skid - a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotationbrake lining - the lining on the brake shoes that comes in contact with the brake drum drum brake - hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to the inside of a spinning drum by the brake shoe constraint, restraint - a device that retards something's motion; "the car did not have proper restraints fitted" | |
| 3. | skid - an unexpected slide | |
| Verb | 1. | skid - slide without control; "the car skidded in the curve on the wet road" |
| 2. | skid - elevate onto skids | |
| 3. | skid - apply a brake or skid to brake - cause to stop by applying the brakes; "brake the car before you go into a curve" | |
| 4. | skid - move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk" submarine - move forward or under in a sliding motion; "The child was injured when he submarined under the safety belt of the car" skid - slide without control; "the car skidded in the curve on the wet road" side-slip - slide sideways through the air in a downward direction in an airplane along an inclined lateral axis glide - move smoothly and effortlessly |
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skid
verb slide, slip, slither, coast, glide, skim, veer, toboggan The car pulled up too fast and skidded on the shoulder of the road.
on the skids in trouble, breaking down, on the rocks, going downhill, be on its last legs, falling apart at the seams My marriage was on the skids.
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skid
nounverb
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Translations
إنْزِلاقيَنْزَلِقيَنْزَلِقُ
smykzarážkadostat smyksmeknout se
skride udstopklodsudskridning
jalasliirataliirtääliirtoliuku
kliziti
kerékkötõmegcsúszás
renna til, skrensaskorîa, fleygurskrens
横すべりする
미끄러지다
mesti į šalįnublokšti į šalįšliūžėsusimėtymassusimėtyti
bremzes kurpesamešanāssamestiessānslīdeslīdēt
derraparderrapagem
zošmyknúť sa
zdrsniti
sladda
ลื่น
trượt
skid
[skɪd]A. N
2. (Aer) → patín m
to grease the skids (US) → engrasar el mecanismo
to put the skids under sb → deshacerse de algn con maña
her marriage/career is on the skids → su matrimonio/carrera se está yendo al garete, su matrimonio/carrera está cayendo en picado
to grease the skids (US) → engrasar el mecanismo
to put the skids under sb → deshacerse de algn con maña
her marriage/career is on the skids → su matrimonio/carrera se está yendo al garete, su matrimonio/carrera está cayendo en picado
B. VI (Aut) → patinar; [person, object] → deslizarse, resbalarse
it went skidding across the floor → se deslizó velozmente sobre el suelo
to skid into → dar con or contra
I skidded into a tree → patiné y di contra un árbol, de un patinazo di contra un árbol
the car skidded to a halt → el coche patinó y paró
it went skidding across the floor → se deslizó velozmente sobre el suelo
to skid into → dar con or contra
I skidded into a tree → patiné y di contra un árbol, de un patinazo di contra un árbol
the car skidded to a halt → el coche patinó y paró
C. CPD skid row N (US) calles donde se refugian los borrachos, drogadictos, etc
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
skid
[ˈskɪd]Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
skid
n
(= sliding movement: Aut etc) → Schleudern nt; to steer into/against a skid → mit-/gegensteuern; to go into a skid → ins Schleudern geraten or kommen; to correct a skid, to pull out of a skid → das Fahrzeug abfangen or wieder in seine Gewalt bekommen; to stop with a skid → schleudernd zum Stehen kommen
(on wheel) → Rolle f
vi (car, objects) → schleudern; (person) → ausrutschen; to skid across the floor → über den Boden rutschen or schlittern; the car skidded into a tree → der Wagen schleuderte gegen einen Baum
skid
:skidlid
n (sl) → Sturzhelm m
skidmark
n → Reifenspur f; (from braking) → Bremsspur f
skidpan
n → Schleuderstrecke f
skidproof
adj tyre etc → rutschfest
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skid
[skɪd]1. n (Aut) → slittamento; (sideways slip) → sbandamento
to go into a skid → slittare, sbandare
to get out of a skid, to correct a skid → riprendere controllo del veicolo
to go into a skid → slittare, sbandare
to get out of a skid, to correct a skid → riprendere controllo del veicolo
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
skid
(skid) – past tense, past participle ˈskidded – verb to slide accidentally sideways. His back wheel skidded and he fell off his bike.
noun1. an accidental slide sideways.
2. a wedge etc put under a wheel to check it on a steep place.
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skid
→ يَنْزَلِقُ dostat smyk skride ud rutschen ολισθαίνω resbalar luisua déraper kliziti slittare 横すべりする 미끄러지다 slippen skrense wpaść w poślizg derrapar заносить sladda ลื่น kaymak trượt 打滑Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009