sliding

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈslaɪdɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ

Verb

sliding

1. present participle and gerund of slide

   Children were swinging and sliding in the playground.

Noun

sliding (plural slidings)

1. The motion of something that slides.
   • 1931, Mary Hunter Austin, Starry Adventure, page 274:

     Her driver was new to the country; he mightn't be prepared for the leaping of the yellow water down dry arroyos, swift as the pouncings of a cat, or the snake-like slidings of tons of loosened rock and clay from the steep potreros […]

Adjective

sliding (not comparable)

1. Designed or able to slide.

   Our yard is just outside the sliding door.

Translations

able to slide

• Bulgarian: плъзгащ се (plǎzgašt se)
• Finnish: liukuva (fi), liuku-
• Spanish: corredizo (es)

Derived terms

• sliding door
• sliding filament model
• sliding keel
• sliding pond
• sliding-rule
• sliding scale
• sliding tackle
• sliding window
• water-sliding
• way-sliding

 

Anagrams

• idlings, sidling

Dutch

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from sliding.

Pronunciation

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Noun

sliding m (plural slidings, diminutive slidinkje n)

1. (soccer) a slide tackle

Middle English

Alternative forms

• slydynge, slidyng, slydyng, slidinge, slithinge

Etymology

From sliden +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsliːdinɡ/

Noun

sliding

1. The act of making a slip or losing one's traction.
2. (rare) Effortless or fluid movement.
3. (rare) Dragging; moving something alongside oneself.

Descendants

• English: sliding
• Scots: slidin, sliding

References

• “slīding(e, ger.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-04.