English Explanatory Dictionary

skid

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car or other vehicle.
  2. 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.
  3. A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose.
  4. A piece of timber or other material used as a support, or to receive pressure.
  5. A runner of a sled.
  6. A ski-shaped runner or supporting surface as found on a helicopter or other aircraft in place of wheels.
  7. A basic platform for the storage and transport of goods, machinery or equipment, later developed into the pallet.
  8. A pallet.
  9. One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, such as a boat or barrel.
  10. A banked sideslip where the aircraft's nose is yawed towards the low wing, often due to excessive rudder input.
  11. A losing streak.
verb
  1. (of a wheel, sled runner, or vehicle tracks) To slide along the ground, without the rotary motion that wheels or tracks would normally have.
  2. To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard, the wheels sliding with limited spinning.
  3. To operate an aircraft in a banked sideslip with the nose yawed towards the low wing.
  4. To protect or support with a skid or skids.
  5. To cause to move on skids.
  6. To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.
noun
  1. A stepchild.
noun
  1. A script kiddie.
verb
  1. To steal or copy, especially computer code.
noun
  1. A sovereign (old coin).

Pronunciation

/ˈskɪd/ [ˈskɪd] LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-skid.wav

Word forms

skid skids skidding skidded

Etymology

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”). Cognate with English shide, from Middle English schyd, schyde, schide (“plank, beam”), German Scheit (“piece of wood, log”). Doublet of ski.

Synonyms

skidding wheelslide sideslip drag skidpan

Derived words

antiskid front-wheel skid hit the skids Murphy-Lane bone skid non-skid on the skids skid car skidder skid flip skid lid skid loader skidmark skid mark skidpad skidplate skidproof skid road skidsteer skid trail skidway tailskid tail-skid nonskid nonskidding skiddingly skiddles skiddy skid row
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