Dictionary

sliding en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈslaɪdɪŋ/

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Designed or able to slide.
   • Our yard is just outside the sliding door.

Deriveds

way-sliding · sliding tackle · slidingly · sliding-rule · nonsliding · sliding door · forum sliding · sliding pond · sliding filament model · sliding clamp · sliding window · slidingness · sliding scale · landsliding · sliding keel · skeleton sliding · water-sliding

Translations (9)

fi liukuva (able to slide) · ca corredís (able to slide) · bg плъзгащ се (able to slide) · fi liu’unta (able to slide) · fr coulissant (able to slide) · fi liuku- (able to slide) · es corredizo (able to slide) · it scorrevole (able to slide) · es corredero (able to slide)

sliding en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈslaɪdɪŋ/

Meanings

1. The motion of something that slides.
   • 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 […] 1931, Mary Hunter Austin, Starry Adventure, page 274:
2. skeleton (winter sport)

Forms

sliding en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈslaɪdɪŋ/

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of slide
   form of slide
   • Children were swinging and sliding in the playground.