Skid vs Shid - What's the difference?
skid | shid |
An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car.
A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a skidpan.
(by extension) A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose.
A piece of timber or other material used as a support, or to receive pressure.
# A runner of a sled.
# A ski-shaped runner or supporting surface as found on a helicopter or other aircraft in place of wheels.
# A basic platform for the storage and transport of goods, machinery or equipment, later developed into the pallet.
# (nautical, in the plural) Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it when handling cargo.
# One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, such as a boat or barrel.
To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard.
To protect or support with a skid or skids.
To cause to move on skids.
To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.
(obsolete) A piece of firewood four feet long.
(obsolete) A unit of length measuring four feet.
(nonstandard, obsolete, alliteration)
* 1920 Well, gen'lemen, this is better, but a record property shid fetch a record price. — John Galsworthy, The Skin Game , Act II, Scene I
As a noun skid
is an out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car.As a verb skid
is to slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard.As an initialism shid is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- Just before hitting the guardrail the driver was able to regain control and pull out of the skid .
- In the hours before daylight he sharpened the skids and tightened the lashings to prepare for the long dogsled journey.
- Due to frequent arctic travel, the plane was equipped with long skids for snow and ice landings.
- He unloaded six skids of boxes from the truck.
- (Totten)
Derived terms
* on the skids * skid markVerb
- They skidded around the corner and accelerated up the street.
- (Charles Dickens)
Anagrams
* * ----shid
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Noun
(en noun)References
*"shid", accessed on 2005-05-03, which in turn cites: Richard Hayes, The Negociator’s Magazine: or, The most authentick account yet published of the Monies, Weights, and Measures of the Principal Places of Trade in the World. , John Noon, London, 1740, page 206.