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Definition: SKIDDING |
SKIDDINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Skid |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | The hauling of loads by sliding, not on wheels, as developed originally from stump to roadside, deck, skidway or other landing. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Laying skids across the surface of an export road. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Transportation | Sliding outward in turn because of insufficient bank or excess rudder. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SKIDDING |
| English words defined with "SKIDDING": nonskid. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SKIDDING": air-operated winch ♦ baptist cone ♦ fender skid ♦ glancer, ground skidding ♦ logging arch ♦ RIGGER, THIRD ♦ sheer log, skidding line, skidding road, SUPERVISOR, LOGGING ♦ to hang-up, to lodge ♦ yarding supervisor. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Skidding Hearts (1917) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Skidding pine logs, Keystone Lumber Company. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Skidding crate of cabbages in warehouse. Alamo, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
| Car skidding uncontrollably then crashing into another car and shattering glass. | Car skidding and crashing into something. | ||
| Car tires skidding on the street. | |||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "SKIDDING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 85.25% of the time. "SKIDDING" is used about 61 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 85.25% | 52 | 47,145 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 11.48% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.28% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 61 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "SKIDDING": ground skidding ♦ skidding drag ♦ skidding line ♦ skidding road. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "SKIDDING": anti-skidding. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
skidding tongs | 7 |
no skidding | 3 |
skidding | 3 |
skidding system | 3 |
car skidding | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SKIDDING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 滑动 (Glided, Gliding, Skidded, SLIP, SLIPS). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | spillen (slipping), slaedekoersel (slipping), skridning (coming into ear, ear emergence, heading, putting on the skid, sprouting, stopping), udslaebning (dragging, ground skidding, snaking, snigging), udslæbning (extraction, ground yarding, logging, removal, sledging, sleighing), bremsning (application(of brakes), putting on the skid, stopping), blokering (blanketing, block, blockade, blockage, blocking, cardiac block, choking, hang-up, heart block, heart-block, immobilisation, immobilization, interlock, mute, obscuration, putting on the skid, scotching, spiking, stopping), anlaeg af svellevej. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | slippen (skid, slip), uitslepen (extraction, ground yarding), uitsleep (extraction, forwarding, ground yarding, transport), houtafvoer, doorslaan van de wielen, doorslaan (bleed, bleed through, bleeding, down-the-row thinning, gapping, photographing, pre-thinning, slipping, thinning, to take a carbon copy, to trace), blokkering (atrioventricular block, binding, block, blockade, blockage, blocking, cardiac block, choking, heart block, heart-block, immobilisation, immobilization, infiltration, interlock, jamming, locking, mute, muting, noise suppression, putting on the skid, squelch, stopping), afvoer op slede (logging), afvoer (abduction, carrying off, discharge, transport). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | jordanĝero (danger of skidding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | juonto, juontaminen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | traînage des grumes, traînage, patinage (skating), halage, enrayage (putting on the skid), dérapage (skid), débusquage par traînage, débusquage, débardage sur traîneau, débardage, bachonner. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sperrung (banning, barring, blocking, closing, closure, disconnection, inhibition, locking, spacing, stoppage, stopping, suspension), Schleudern (catapult, catapults, centrifuge, dash, extract, fling, flung, hurl, launch, pelt, pitch, precipitate, precipitation, send, skid, sling, slingshots, slung, smote, spin, spin-dry, throw, to catapult, to dash, to hurl, to skid, to smote, toss), Schleppen (be carrying, drag, dragging, haul, haul up, haulage, heave, hump, lug, schlep, schlepp, tote, tow, towing, trail, wear continually), Schiebewinkel (slipping, yawing), Schiebeflug (sideslip, side-slip, sideslipping, side-slipping, slipping, yawing), Rutschen (crawl, crumble, glide, move over, move up, shove over, shove up, skid, skitter, slide, slip, slither, to skid, to slide, to slip, work down), Rückung (logging), Rücken (back, backs, crest, hitch, Mount, move, move on, move over, move up, push, ridge, saddle, spine, thrust), Holzrückung (logging), Holzabfuhr, Hemmung (check, escapement, hampering, hindering, inhibition, obstruction, scruple, staunching, stemming, stoppage), Gleiten (be chucked, float, floating, glide, plane, range, sail, sashay, skid, slide, slip, to float, to glide, to sashay), Ausrücken des Holzes auf Holzschlitten (logging), Abrutschen (go downhill, sideslip, skid, slip down, slip off, to slip off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έλξη φλοιών (logging), μεταφορά δι'ολισθήσεως, μάγκωμα τροχών (putting on the skid, stopping), πατινάρισμα (slip, slippage, slipping, spinning), εκφόρτωση πάνω σε έλκυθρο (logging), εκφόρτωση (blast, delivery, discharge, dumping, landing, logging, tipping, unloading), εξω-ολίσθηση (slipping, yawing), ακινητοποίηση τροχών με ανασταλτικό πέδιλο (putting on the skid, stopping), τοποθετώ σύρτας. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sodródás (convolute, drift, drifting), csúszás (crawl, creep, glide, gliding, lapse, shifting, skid, slide, sliding, slip, slipping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | slittamento (fall, postponement, sliding, slipping), traverse di rinforzo, trasporto su slitta del legname non scortecciato (logging), trasporto fuori foresta (logging), pattinamento (slipping), esbosco a strascico, derapata (sideslip), concentramento a strascico (ground yarding), arresto di una ruota (putting on the skid, stopping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 横滑り (shifting to another post, skid, slipping or skidding sideways). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | よ"すべり (shifting to another post, skid, slipping or skidding sideways). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 미끄러짐 (sliding, slipping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iddingskay semi-arrastre, transporte de troncos por arrasto (logging), rechegagem por arrastro (ground yarding), rechegagem, patinagem (slip, slippage, slipping, spinning), guinada (lurch, sheer, yaw), escorregamento (debris avalanche, flowing, landslide, landslip, mudslide, slide, sliding, slip, slippage, slipping, spinning), enramar, deslize (glide, glissade, lapse, Lapwing, slip, stumble), derrapagem (sideslip, skid), bloqueio das rodas (putting on the skid, stopping). (various references) идти юзом/ юз. (various references) transporte de troncos en arrastradero (logging), recogida (capture, pickup, post), patinazo (gaffe, skid), patinaje (skating), inmovilización de las ruedas (putting on the skid, stopping), guiñada (lurch, sheer, wink, yaw), empalar un deslizadero, derrape (yaw), bloqueo de las ruedas (putting on the skid, stopping), arrastre de trozas (logging, sledging, sleighing), arrastre (pull). (various references) slirning (sliding, slipping). (various references) ковзання (backlash, glide, glissade, slide, slip, slipping), гальмування (brake action, braking, deceleration, slowdown), занос. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"SKIDDING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: saiding, Siddig, skiddy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SKIDDING" (pronounced ski"ding) |
| 5 | -k i" d i ng | kidding. |
| 4 | -i" d i ng | bidding, forbidding, ridding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | abiding, abounding, acceding, according, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, amending, applauding, apprehending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handholding, handing, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kneading, lading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, recording, Redding, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-g-i-i-k-n-s" | |
-1 letter: disking, kidding. | |
-2 letters: diking, siding, skiing. | |
-3 letters: dings, dinks, ginks, kinds, kings. | |
-4 letters: digs, ding, dink, dins, disk, gids, gink, gins, inks, kids, kind, king, kins, nidi, nisi, sign, sing, sink, skid, skin. | |
-5 letters: did, dig, din, dis, gid, gin, ids, ink, ins, kid, kin, sin, ski. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-g-i-i-k-n-s" | |
+2 letters: skiddooing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 4B 49 44 44 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.- .. -.. -.. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001011 01001001 01000100 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S K I D D I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004B 0049 0044 0044 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5345433838434841 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kineser, kiinalainen, Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, chinês, китайский, китаец, chino, kinesisk, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | 丹麦语, tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, dán, danese, 덴마크, dinamarquês, датский, danés, dansk, датський, датська мова |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, hollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holland, olandese, 네덜란", holandês, голландский, holandés, holländsk, голландська мова, голландський |
Esperanto | vortaro, difino, traduko | 世界语, esperanton, espéranto, εσπεράντο, eszperanto, eszperantó, エスキモー犬 , エスペラント , эсперанто, esperanto |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finn, finlandese, 핀란", finlandês, finês, финский, finlandés, finés, finsk, фінська мова, фінський |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , ふつぶ", ふつ, フレンチ , フランセ , "랑스, francês, французский, francés, fransk, franska, французька мова, французький |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , tysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, alemão, немецкий, alemán, tysk, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | 希腊语, 希臘語 , græker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", 그리스, grego, греческий, грек, griego, grek, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , ungarer, Hongaarse, unkarilainen, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, венгр, венгерский, húngaro, ungrare, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italiener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, 이탈리아, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italiensk, italienska, italienare, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japanilainen, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, japán, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, japonês, японский, японец, japonés, japansk, японська мова, японський, японка, японець |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japanilainen, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, japán, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, japonês, японский, японец, japonés, japansk, японська мова, японський, японка, японець |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , Koreaans, coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτικοσ, κορεάτησ, koreai, 한국, coréia, a língua coreana, кореец, корейский, coreano, koreansk, кореянка, коре"ць, корейська мова, корейський |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, português, португальский, portugués, portugis, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, russer, venäläinen, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", 러시아, русский, ruso, ryss, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, espanhol, испанский, español, spanska språk, spansk, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, Zweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", 스웨덴, шведский, sueco, svensk, шведська мова, шведський |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | 乌克兰, Oekraïens, ukraino, ukraina, ukrainalainen, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ukrán, ucraino, ucraniano, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ucranio, ukrainare, український, українець |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglan, englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, 영국, inglês, английский, inglés, engelsk, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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