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Dodge vs Slalom - What's the difference?

dodge | slalom |

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)
  • To avoid by moving suddenly out of the way.
  • He dodged traffic crossing the street.
  • (figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
  • The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}
  • (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
  • 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, skirt

    Derived terms

    * dodge a bullet * dodger * dodgy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of dodging
  • A trick, evasion or wile
  • slalom

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia slalom)
  • (uncountable, sports) The sport of skiing in a zigzag course through gates. (Often used attributively)
  • Slalom is her strongest Olympic sport.
    The slalom gates are set closer together.
  • (uncountable) Any similar activity on other vehicles, including canoes and water skis.
  • (countable, sports) A course used for the sport of slalom.
  • These first two slaloms have sixty gates each.
  • (countable, sports) A race or competition wherein participants each perform the sport of slalom.
  • 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, PSG

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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]
  • 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.