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Definition: SLID |
SLID1. Imp. & p. p. of Slide. Imperative1. Of Slide |
Date "SLID" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
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) |
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Crosswords: SLID |
| English words defined with "SLID": curling ♦ French omelet ♦ headfirst, headlong ♦ latch ♦ shove-halfpenny, shove-ha'penny, shovel board, slide, slither ♦ truckle, truckle bed, trundle, trundle bed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SLID": Cross staff ♦ horn socket ♦ pressure plate ♦ Rope-dancers ♦ telescopic cover. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "SLID" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Swedish (slide, valve). |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & 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. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
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. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | Bush is a boob, a frat boy, and he just slid through life on his name. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 92.25% | 1,213 | 6,413 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 7.75% | 102 | 32,309 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,315 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "SLID": slid-tackling. | |
| 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 |
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. | |
| 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 | 滑 (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 trecut şi participiu trecut de la slide. (various references) скользить (glide, scud, sideslipped, skid, slide, slip, slipped, slipping, slips, slither). (various references) proš. vreme i particip od slide. (various references) pret y pp de slide. (various references) sự trượt đường trượt trên tuyết mặt nghiêng (slide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SLID" (pronounced sli"d) |
| 3 | -l i" d | lid. |
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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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 4C 49 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .-.. .. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001100 01001001 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S L I D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004C 0049 0044 |
| 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)53464338 |
| 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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