skid

Meaning

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. (broadly) 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 piece of timber or other material used as a support, or to receive pressure.
6. A piece of timber or other material used as a support, or to receive pressure.
7. A piece of timber or other material used as a support, or to receive pressure.
8. A banked sideslip where the aircraft's nose is yawed towards the low wing, often due to excessive rudder input.
9. A losing streak.

Verb

1. (intransitive) (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. (intransitive) To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard, the wheels sliding with limited spinning.
3. (intransitive, transitive) To operate an aircraft in a banked sideslip with the nose yawed towards the low wing.
4. (transitive) To protect or support with a skid or skids.
5. (transitive) To cause to move on skids.
6. (transitive) To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.

Verb

To steal or copy, especially computer code.

Synonyms

slip

slide

brake shoe

drag

sideslip

sprag

shoe

👞

brake-shoe

side-slip

brake-block

brake block

glide

slew

slide down

brake

slue

set back

skew

skids

slant

sleeper

slippage

slipped

slipping

splay

stem

stonewall

trig

wheel

🛞

backpedal

caterpillar track

lie on

roll on

rub against

side rail

slide into

shifting to another post

guide strip

guide track

slide guide

guide way

skid mark

closure rail

shoe plate

transfer gear

sliding way

bevel

sliding guide

lead rail

way of bed

Translations

déraper

derrapar

rutschen

slippen

scivolare

derapare

patinar

schleudern

resbalar

sbandare

dérapage

glisser

slittare

🛷

remschoen

uitglijden

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skɪd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: *skid

Cognate with English: shide

Cognate with Middle English: schyd

Cognate with German: Scheit

In summary

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.