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SLID

Definition: SLID

SLID

1. Imp. & p. p. of Slide.

Imperative

1. Of Slide

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SLID" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)


Specialty Definition: SLID

DomainDefinition

Electrical Engineering

A process used in the production of semiconductors which introduces minute amounts of impurities into a substrate material such as silicon or germanium and permits the impurity to spread into the substrate. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: SLID

English words defined with "SLID": curlingFrench omeletheadfirst, headlonglatchshove-halfpenny, shove-ha'penny, shovel board, slide, slithertruckle, truckle bed, trundle, trundle bed. (references)
Specialty definitions using "SLID": Cross staffhorn socketpressure plateRope-dancerstelescopic cover. (references)
Non-English Usage: "SLID" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Swedish (slide, valve).

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Modern Usage: SLID

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You slid in there like a card into a time clock. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

Tongue Twisters

Six slippery snails, slid slowly seaward. (references; author: unknown)

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

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Commercial Usage: SLID

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Photo Album: SLID

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Ship launching in Portland, Maine. A mass launching that made history in Maine shipbuilding took place August 16, 1942, when eight vessels slid into the water. One of the five British cargo-carrying ships which were christened is here being prepared for l. Credit: Library of Congress.

Baskets of spinach being slid into refrigerator car for shipping. La Pryor, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Use in Literature: SLID

TitleAuthorQuote

Life, the Universe and Everything

Douglas Adams

One thing, he further added, "has suddenly ceased to lead to another" - in contradiction of which he had another drink and slid gracelessly off his chair.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

In order to arrive more quickly, he slid down the rigging, and started to run along a lower yard.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Ma slid down into the water, and for a moment her skirts billowed out around her.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: SLID

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

A catheter is a thin tube that can be slid through the urethra, up to the bladder. (references)

Economic History

Dominican Republic

Nonetheless, by 1988 the country slid into a 2-year economic depression, characterized by high inflation and currency devaluation. (references)

Uzbekistan

The GOU claims that the exchange booth market rate is set by supply and demand, but for many months it remained stuck at 675 and 690 in accordance with Central Bank "recommendations" while the value of the soum on the curb market slid past 800 soum/dollar. (references)

Korea

As a result, the interbank call market rate slid to 6% in 1998 from its 20% peak in late 1997, before falling to as low as 4% in Q1 1999. Since mid-1998, the economy recovered well and the ROKG has maintained a low-interest rate policy with the benchmark call rate stabilized at slightly over 5% since year-end 1999. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: SLID

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Rush Limbaugh

Bush is a boob, a frat boy, and he just slid through life on his name.

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

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Usage Frequency: SLID

"SLID" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 92.25% of the time. "SLID" is used about 1,315 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 (past tense)92.25%1,2136,413
Lexical Verb (past participle)7.75%10232,309
                    Total100.00%1,315N/A

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

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Expression: SLID

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "SLID": slid-tackling.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SLID

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

reebok slid

13

show slid

10

slid

4

n slid slip

4

cha cha slid

4

as ass finger her i in slid

3

slid slip

3

adidas slid

2

balsa bikini bottom fell hobby off peek shift slid slide slip sneak suit superior supply swim take top water

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SLID

Language Translations for "SLID"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏تزلق (glide, slipping), ‏زحلقة (glide), ‏إنزلق (run, shoot, sideslip, skid, slide, slip, slip by, slip up, slither, swim, toboggan). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(sliding). (various references)

   

Czech

  

min.èas od slide. (various references)

   

German

  

glitt ab. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αόρ. του slide. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

csúszott. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

미끄러지" (Skidded, Slipped). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

idslay

   

Romanian

  

trecut şi participiu trecut de la slide. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

скользить (glide, scud, sideslipped, skid, slide, slip, slipped, slipping, slips, slither). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

proš. vreme i particip od slide. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pret y pp de slide. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự trượt đường trượt trên tuyết mặt nghiêng (slide). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: SLID

Derivations

Words beginning with "SLID": slidable, slidden, slide, slider, sliders, slides, slideway, slideways, sliding. (additional references)

Words ending with "SLID": backslid, landslid. (additional references)

Words containing "SLID": backslidden, backslide, backslider, backsliders, backslides, backsliding, downslide, downslides, landslide, landslides, landsliding, mudslide, mudslides, rockslide, rockslides, snowslide, snowslides, tailslide, tailslides. (additional references)


Misspellings

"SLID" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clid, lsd, lsi, salid, scid, seid, shid, sid, sidh, sild, sildo, silif, silj, silq, slabd, slad, slaid, S'land, sld, slead, sledy, sleed, slend, sli, slido, slids, slidy, slie, slig, sliv, sliy, slod, slud, sluid, slyd, smid, soid, spid, srid, suid, svid, swid, Ulidh. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "SLID"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "SLID" (pronounced sli"d)
3-l i" dlid.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: SLID

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lids, sild.

Words within the letters "d-i-l-s"

-1 letter: dis, ids, lid, lis.

-2 letters: id, is, li, si.

 Words containing the letters "d-i-l-s"
 

+1 letter: deils, delis, dials, dills, diols, dirls, gilds, idles, idols, idyls, isled, lidos, sidle, silds, slide, sloid, soldi, solid, wilds.

 

+2 letters: aisled, alcids, bields, blinds, builds, dalasi, deasil, delist, devils, diesel, dildos, dismal, dispel, distal, distil, dossil, drails, drills, dulias, ediles, elides, felids, fields, fluids, glides, guilds, halids, ideals, idlers, idlest, idylls, iliads, indols, island, ladies, lairds, liards, lidars, lipids, lisped, listed, misled, oldies, oldish, plaids, sailed, salpid, sedile, seidel, shield, sialid, sidled, sidler, sidles, silked, siloed, silted, sliced, slider, slides, slimed, sliped, sloids, smiled, soiled, solidi, solids, spiled, stolid, sulfid, tildes, wields, yields.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SLID


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

53 4C 49 44

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 01001100 01001001 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#76 &#73 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004C 0049 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

53464338

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Quotations: Spoken
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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