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Skid vs Swerved - What's the difference?

skid | swerved |

As verbs the difference between skid and swerved

is that skid is to slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard while swerved is (swerve).

As a noun skid

is an out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car.

skid

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car.
    • Just before hitting the guardrail the driver was able to regain control and pull out of the skid .
  • 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.
  • In the hours before daylight he sharpened the skids and tightened the lashings to prepare for the long dogsled journey.
  • # A ski-shaped runner or supporting surface as found on a helicopter or other aircraft in place of wheels.
  • Due to frequent arctic travel, the plane was equipped with long skids for snow and ice landings.
  • # A basic platform for the storage and transport of goods, machinery or equipment, later developed into the pallet.
  • He unloaded six skids of boxes from the truck.
  • # (nautical, in the plural) Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it when handling cargo.
  • (Totten)
  • # One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, such as a boat or barrel.

    • Derived terms

    * on the skids * skid mark

    Verb

  • To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard.
    • They skidded around the corner and accelerated up the street.
  • 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.
    • (Charles Dickens)

    Anagrams

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    swerved

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (swerve)

    • swerve

    English

    Verb

    (swerv)
  • To stray; to wander; to rove.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • A maid thitherward did run, / To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve .
  • To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • The point [of the sword] swerved .
  • To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
  • * Book of Common Prayer
    • I swerve not from thy commandments.
  • * Clarendon
    • They swerve from the strict letter of the law.
  • * Atterbury
    • many who, through the contagion of evil example, swerve exceedingly from the rules of their holy religion
  • To bend; to incline.
  • * Milton
    • The battle swerved .
  • To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
  • * Dryden
    • The tree was high; / Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerved .
  • To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
  • of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 8 , author=Chris Bevan , title=Arsenal 1 - 1 Leeds , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Snodgrass also saw a free-kick swerve just wide before Arsenal, with Walcott and Fabregas by now off the bench, turned their vastly superior possession into chances in the closing moments}}

    Related terms

    * swarf