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skid
What does skid mean?
skid (verb): to slide along the ground, without the rotary motion that wheels or tracks would normally have.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use skid in a sentence?
- The car skidded in the curve on the wet road. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce skid?
/skɪd/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does skid come from?
From Middle English *skid, from Old Norse skíð (“a billet of wood, a beam or plank on which something rests”), from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“log, clapboard”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey-t-, *skey- (“to split, divide, separate”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “skid” mean?
to make a sound from the vocal cords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed
Not quite: that's what hum means.
to slide along the ground, without the rotary motion that wheels or tracks would normally have
Right! That's what “skid” means.
to physically repair (something that is broken, defaced, decayed, torn, or otherwise damaged)
Not quite: that's what mend means.
separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
Not quite: that's what sift means.
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