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SKIDDING

Definition: SKIDDING

SKIDDING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Skid

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definitions: SKIDDING

DomainDefinitions

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.

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Crosswords: SKIDDING

English words defined with "SKIDDING": nonskid. (references)
Specialty definitions using "SKIDDING": air-operated winchbaptist conefender skidglancer, ground skiddinglogging archRIGGER, THIRDsheer log, skidding line, skidding road, SUPERVISOR, LOGGINGto hang-up, to lodgeyarding supervisor. (references)

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Modern Usage: SKIDDING

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Skidding Hearts (1917)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: SKIDDING

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ground skidding guidelines : with emphasis on minimizing site disturbance (reference)

  • Influence of combined highway grade and horizontal alignment on skidding (reference)

  • Road Aggregates and Skidding (reference)

  • Skidding accidents : proceedings of a conference conducted by the Transportation Research Board, May 2-6, 1977 (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: SKIDDING

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: SKIDDING

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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.

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Sounds Captioned with "SKIDDING".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
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.

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Usage Frequency: SKIDDING

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)85.25%5247,145
Adjective (general or positive)11.48%7133,076
Noun (singular)3.28%2245,945
                    Total100.00%61N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: SKIDDING

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SKIDDING

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: SKIDDING

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

идти юзом/ юз. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Swedish

  

slirning (sliding, slipping). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

ковзання (backlash, glide, glissade, slide, slip, slipping), гальмування (brake action, braking, deceleration, slowdown), занос. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: SKIDDING

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).

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Rhyming with "SKIDDING"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "SKIDDING" (pronounced ski"ding)
5-k i" d i ngkidding.
4-i" d i ngbidding, forbidding, ridding.
3-d i ngabiding, 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.

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Anagrams: SKIDDING

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.

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Alternative Orthography: SKIDDING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 4B 49 44 44 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.-    ..    -..    -..    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001011 01001001 01000100 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#75 &#73 &#68 &#68 &#73 &#78 &#71

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5345433838434841

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Non-English Dictionaries with "SKIDDING"

LanguageCoverageLanguage 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
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Sounds
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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