sled
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English sledde, from Middle Dutch sledde or Middle Low German sledde (compare Dutch slee, slede, Low German Sleden), from Proto-Germanic *slidô (compare Saterland Frisian sliede, German Schlitten, Norwegian slede). Doublet of sleigh; also related to slide.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /slɛd/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛd
Noun
editsled (plural sleds)
- A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills. (A "sled" in this sense is not pulled by an animal as a "sleigh" is.)
- The child zoomed down the hill on his sled.
- (US) A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice. (contrast "sleigh", which is larger)
- "Mush!" he yelled at the dogs pulling the sled.
- (slang) A snowmobile.
Derived terms
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Translations
editsledge — see sledge
See also
editVerb
editsled (third-person singular simple present sleds, present participle sledding, simple past and past participle sledded)
- (intransitive) To ride a sled.
- (transitive) To convey on a sled.
Anagrams
editCzech
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Czech sled, Proto-Slavic *slědъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sláidus, from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ-.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsled m inan
- sequence, succession
- 2012, Radomír Čížek, Velké oživení, Praha: Grada Publishing, translation of The Great Reflation by J. Anthony Boeckh, →ISBN, page 15:
- Investoři musejí pochopit, že zde existuje určitý propojený sled událostí, které vedou k potenciální katastrofě.
- It is critical for investors to understand that there is a linked sequence of events that is leading to a potential disaster.
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Further reading
edit- “sled”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “sled”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “sled”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Anagrams
editSerbo-Croatian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Slavic *slědъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sláidus, from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ-.
Noun
editslȇd m (Cyrillic spelling сле̑д)
Declension
editDeclension of sled
References
edit- “sled”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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