Dodge vs Slalom - What's the difference?
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To avoid by moving suddenly out of the way.
(figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
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, chapter=2 (archaic) To go hither and thither.
(photography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them darker (compare burn).
To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
* Coleridge
(uncountable, sports) The sport of skiing in a zigzag course through gates. (Often used attributively)
(uncountable) Any similar activity on other vehicles, including canoes and water skis.
(countable, sports) A course used for the sport of slalom.
(countable, sports) A race or competition wherein participants each perform the sport of slalom.
To race in a slalom.
To move in a slalom manner
* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Steven Gerrard goal against Poland ensures England will go to World Cup'' (in ''The Guardian , 15 October 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/oct/15/england-poland-world-cup-qualifier]
As a proper noun dodge
is derived from a (etyl) diminutive of roger (typically found in the united states).As a noun slalom is
slalom (same meanings as in english).dodge
English
Verb
(dodg)- He dodged traffic crossing the street.
- The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
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- A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! / And still it neared and neared: / As if it dodged a water-sprite, / It plunged and tacked and veered.
Synonyms
* (to avoid) duck, evade, fudge, skirtDerived terms
* dodge a bullet * dodger * dodgyslalom
English
Noun
(wikipedia slalom)- Slalom is her strongest Olympic sport.
- The slalom gates are set closer together.
- These first two slaloms have sixty gates each.
- He has won six World Cup slaloms .
Derived terms
* slalomer * slalomist * giant slalom, GS * super giant slalom, Super G/Super-G * parallel slalom, PSL * parallel giant slalom, PSGVerb
(en verb)- Gerrard plainly had other ideas as he set off on that final, driving run into the opposition penalty area, slaloming between Kamil Glik and Grzegorz Wojtkowiak and getting his shot away as a third defender, Artur Jedzejczyk, and the goalkeeper, Wojciech Szczesny, tried to close him out.