sliding
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
sliding
- present participle and gerund of slide
- Children were swinging and sliding in the playground.
Noun[edit]
sliding (plural slidings)
- 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[edit]
sliding (not comparable)
- Designed or able to slide.
- Our yard is just outside the sliding door.
Translations[edit]
able to slide
Derived terms[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pseudo-anglicism, derived from sliding.
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
sliding m (plural slidings, diminutive slidinkje n)
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sliding
- The act of making a slip or losing one's traction.
- (rare) Effortless or fluid movement.
- (rare) Dragging; moving something alongside oneself.
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “slīding(e, ger.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-04.
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